Episode 2 - Cloud
Overview
This episode we looked at a high-level overview of what "Cloud" really is and why it's important to know in the current tech industry.
Watch this episode on Youtube.
Tech News
The news articles we looked at on stream:
- “Sysadmin Role Isn't Dying – But It Is Under Threat”
- "Sam Altman joins Microsoft as OpenAI names its third CEO in 3 days"
- "Microsoft announces A$5 billion investment in computing capacity and capability to help Australia seize the AI era"
Questions
- SysAdmin or Cloud for entry level job?
- What does AI have to do with Cloud?
Presentation
Slides available on request.
Cloud presentation going through the following main points:
- What is Cloud
- Benefits of Cloud Computing
- Why should Pasifika care?
What is Cloud?
“Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider..."
Benefits of Cloud
- Cost Savings
- Scalability
- Security
- Agility
- Global
Why Should Pasifika Care?
“Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud End-User Spending to Reach Nearly $600 Billion in 2023" - Gartner
“More than 90% of organizations use some form of cloud computing service, ... yet organizations still struggle to see success with their cloud strategies. Why? Their teams don’t have the skills to make their cloud systems efficient, effective, and scalable.” - Pluralsight.
Demo
Ron demonstrated spinning up Cloud resources in Amazon Web Services (AWS) creating an EC2 instance 3x different ways:
- using the AWS Console
- using Infrastructure-as-Code tool CloudFormation
- using the AWS commandline (cli) tool.