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A practical guide to backups and recovery
A backup is a copy of data that you keep so you can restore it after deletion, device failure, a cyberattack, or…
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Cloud & infrastructure.
Compute, storage, backups and the trade-offs of operating digital infrastructure.
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Vendor lock-in and data portability
When a business relies on one cloud provider or software service, switching can be costly. Lock-in grows when a provider uses data…
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Cloud infrastructure explained
A website, file store, or business service needs computing power to run code, storage to hold data, and network connections to exchange…
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Logs, metrics and traces explained
When a website slows down or a service fails, engineers need to know what changed and where. Logs, metrics, and traces are…
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Shared responsibility in cloud security
In cloud computing, providers and customers divide security tasks. The shared responsibility model describes which security tasks providers handle for the infrastructure…
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Cloud egress costs explained
Cloud providers may charge when data leaves their services. This charge, called egress, covers data sent to users, transferred between regions, or…