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Serverless. It’s likely you’ve already come across this term somewhere, but what exactly does it mean? Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing, doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others.

Elastic on Google Cloud gives you the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security as well as the Elastic Stack so you can quickly and easily search your environment for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect your technology investments. Elastic Cloud lets you deploy your way, whether as a managed service, or with orchestration tools you manage in your Google Cloud environment.

You’ve heard that old Chinese proverb that says a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. It’s sound advice … except if the journey you’re talking about is the one from the data center to the cloud. With cloud deployment at the center of virtually any digital transformation effort, the journey itself can have a profound impact on the successful outcomes you seek at the destination. So you have to get it right. But what does that actually mean?

share post Amazon Web Services (AWS) is almost ubiquitous with the terms “cloud computing” to many. With over 175 services, it is easy to understand why the growth and branding are strong. Here’s a fun game: Which of these is NOT the name of an AWS Service offering: They all are. It is likely you may have heard of many of these, but not all. It is less likely you can give a two-sentence brief on each of them or know what they do. Cloud computing often runs into a problem of scale.

We all know that while Microsoft provides an almost seemingly infinite amount of storage. Compare this to your normal datacentre virtual infrastructure, you often need to do some capacity planning for expected Virtual Machine Compute and Storage way ahead of time. As Microsoft does the capacity planning for you (and everyone else who is using their services), your own Operational Support no longer needs to order disks or more servers to keep up with your business growth and expectations.

2020 – what a ride it’s been! The state of the world this year has definitely been unpredictable and ever more surprising. So for some interesting insights and stability, we’ve turned to Lambdas. Namely, the state of Lambda functions in 2020! Ever wondered how others look without their face masks on? At Dashbird, we get to (metaphorically speaking) see what everyone looks like behind their serverless masks (read: stacks), and identify trends and patterns.

This month, I made the decision to join CloudZero as their new chief revenue officer — a choice I’m incredibly excited about. In the past week, a number of colleagues have asked me to share why I joined the company. After answering the question a few times, I decided to take a minute to collect my thoughts and explain why this incredible company is the next step in my career.

For many years after the inception of Compute Engine on June 28, 2012 (GA December 2, 2013), N1 was the only Google Cloud machine type family offered.