by ezcloud | May 30, 2019 | General, Google, Google Cloud, Google Cloud Platform
Google is still closely associated with California to many people (and to a lesser degree New York), but it’s determined to change that reputation. The company is launching a $13 billion expansion in 2019 that will give it a total US footprint of 24...
by ezcloud | May 29, 2019 | General
Seattle is far from a nascent startup ecosystem, but despite the presence of tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, the city still lags behind tech hubs like Boston and New York City in terms of venture capital raised. But a new study indicates that Seattle is...
by ezcloud | May 29, 2019 | Amazon, Amazon Lightsail, Amazon Web Services
A Lightsail load balancer distributes incoming application traffic among multiple Lightsail instances, in multiple Availability Zones. Load balancing can increase the fault tolerance of your applications and helps makes them more highly available. The load balancer...
by ezcloud | May 29, 2019 | Amazon, Amazon Web Services
Developers can use Amazon Lightsail to spin up servers and web applications as a single package. It’s less configurable than what they can create on Amazon EC2, but it’s also a lot easier to deploy and estimate costs. In 2017, I wrote a detailed...
by ezcloud | May 28, 2019 | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Atlassian
Engineering stateless, high-availability cloud services comes with juuuuuuust a few challenges. Here’s how we (eventually) slayed the dragon. Atlassian went “all in” on AWS in 2016 and they continue to be our preferred cloud provider. The extent of that migration was...