Cloud Computing

Azure VMware Solution goes into GA

Shahrouz

On September 22nd 2020, during Ignite 2020 , Microsoft announced the general availability of next generation of VMware Azure Solution(AVS). If you want to learn about basics of AVS, you can read my previous blog post on Introduction of Azure VMware Solutions. Now AVS is now generally available in four Region at US East, US West, West Europe (Netherlands) and Australia(NSW). AVS also going to be available in Japan East, UK South and South Central US in the near future. You can check the availability of Azure VMware Solution by checking Azure Products by Region page for details.

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Introduction to Azure VMware Solution (AVS)

Shahrouz

Azure VMware Solution (AVS) enables you to run VMware SDDC stack natively on Azure to build-up a hybrid cloud infrastructure. AVS is a VMware validated solution that being delivered by Microsoft on Azure environment. According to Microsoft’s release statement in May 2020, “You can provision a full VMware Cloud Foundation environment on Azure and gain compute and storage elasticity as your business needs change”. Popular scenarios for this solution are datacenter footprint reduction, On-demand datacenter expansion, disaster recovery & business continuity and finally application modernization.

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Cloud Journey with AWS!

Sadaf

Since beginning of 2020, we have started our cloud computing journey by actively practicing and studying Amazon Web Services(AWS) public cloud computing services. We choose AWS because of its tight integration with VMware’s private cloud & SDDC offering and also broad usage & service coverage of AWS intentionally.

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AWS was founded in 2006 to provide IT infrastructure as a service which now commonly known as Cloud Computing. Initially AWS lunched with Simple Storage Service(S3), Elastic Cloud Computing(EC2) and Simple Queue Service(SQS) service offering. Since then AWS has experienced rapid growth in terms of number of customers, service portfolio and also profitability. AWS also maintained its position as the leader in cloud computing market. AWS interestingly surpass its giant parent company, Amazon, in terms of profitability!

In series of blog posts we will cover AWS wide range of services and also AWS architectural principals.