Technically, Microsoft’s proprietary Active Directory service is a hierarchical, multi-master-enabled database that can store millions of objects. In other words, Active Directory (AD) is a database and a set of services that connect its users with the network resources they need. Active Directory runs on Windows Server where admins manage permissions and grant access to […]
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Microsoft SQL Server is a popular relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications. Those applications may run on the same computer or on another computer across a network. The cost of […]
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Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is long-term, secure, durable S3 object storage with milliseconds retrieval, for rarely accessed data, at the lowest storage cost. S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is one of three Amazon S3 Glacier cloud storage classes built for archiving data at an extremely low cost. This archival cloud storage class became available on […]
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AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that utilizes the global network infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Global Accelerator, like Amazon CloudFront, utilizes Edge Locations. Unlike CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator works continuously to optimize the path to your application. For example, when the internet is congested, Global Accelerator combines advanced networking features to […]
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AWS Fargate is a serverless, and pay-as-you-go compute engine. Serverless computing means a company utilizes backend services from a serverless vendor with charges based on usage, not a fixed amount of bandwidth or number of servers. Backend services can be of any type, data service, web service, Java service, security service, etc. AWS Fargate is […]
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Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is a database and a set of services. Active Directory uses a structured data store as the basis for a logical, hierarchical organization of directory information: As a database, Microsoft AD contains critical information about your environment, like which users and computers are included in your environment, and who’s allowed to […]
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nClouds’ engineers have extensive experience with CloudFormation and infrastructure as code (IaC), and we’ve found that AWS CDK is an invaluable tool as we build solutions for our clients. We used to think in terms of AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) vs. Terraform for provisioning infrastructure — but with AWS CDK for Terraform (cdktf), […]
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I’ve been working DevOps on cloud environments for a while now, and it’s almost always a given that you need a virtual private network (VPN) when you’re working in the cloud. For a time, OpenVPN was the go-to solution (possibly because people thought it was the only one), but after gaining more experience with VPNs, […]
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This advanced-level blog post will help you learn how to accelerate data lake development with a data lake as code approach using a Cloud Development Kit (CDK) powered by AWS CloudFormation. It includes a brief overview of data lakes, outline of nClouds’ proof of concept (PoC) strategy, use case, data set, and the integration of […]
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Just recently, I had my very first experience working with Amazon Athena (Athena). Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. In simpler terms, Athena lets SQL run queries against data stored in Amazon S3 without actually having any database […]
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