Questions tagged [cloud]
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet)
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Safe to delete managed incremental snapshots on Azure?
Incremental snapshots of managed disks on Azure is a relatively new thing, and is not completely documented, so I have a crucial question:
If I have incremental snapshots A, B, C and D of a disk (the ...
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GKE cluster looses data
I am new to GCP so pardon the ignorance.
I have a 3 node GKE cluster that is running a database application. Each node has a 100GB standard persistent disk allocated. However, I find every so often (...
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Public IPv4 addressing behavior with AWS spot instances
I'm deploying a very resource intensive web scraper, to optimize costs I opted to use AWS Spot Instances knowing the default behavior of IP addresses when dealing with EC2 instances the 1st question ...
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Do I need a VNet?
My deployed application isn't very complicated and it doesn't require a dedicated Azure VM.
Fundamentally it's an Azure App Service (with deployment slots), and it requires an Azure SQL database, and ...
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How to save to a "virtual local drive" and have the data streamed to a remote drive? [closed]
(This is for Windows computers.)
So, the reason why I need this is not really important, but generally speaking...
I have a program which takes a long time to generate a huge file (like 100's of GB).
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Does db connection without cloud datacenter need to be encrypted?
when i have a Website at siteground which is hosted on Google Cloud in the Netherlands and i want to connect it to google sql. Do i need to encrypt the connection? Because the connection should only ...
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zypper lp command not working on Suse Linux
I'm trying to list patches in suse linux GCE using the zypper lp command, but I am getting the following error:
"Medium not attached: plugin:/susecloud?credentials=Basesystem_Module_x86_64&...
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Google Cloud Instance Crashed - Same Attached Disk Crashes another instance when attached as secondary (unmounted)
I have a GCP instance that is micro, and I suspect it ran out of memory,
It crashed and does not let me SSH into it, even through the web console on GCP.
I create a new bootable instance and enter it ...
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Multiple IP addresses - set the primary
I have a SMTP server in Hetzner Cloud. Have added floating IPv4 and IPv6 (in case I switch server and the IP's can follow to the new server)
How to set the floating IP's as primary?
When a client ...
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Can AWS or other cloud provider be used to cost-effectively transfer large files (+10TB) between Google Drive and Dropbox (via rclone command)?
Is there any service that could help me migrate a large collection of files between Google Drive and Dropbox? Or is every cloud provider billing their data transfer?
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Unable to ping container from outside
I've to connect to a service running inside a runc container, I've written the below script and is able to ping the container from the host and can connect to the internet from inside the container.
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How can i connect my Vms connect to each other over virtual private network in azure?
How can i connect my Vms connect to each other over virtual private network in azure? should i have to do extra configutaion of just from one vm if i use private ip and port of other vm can i access ...
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EC2 with Kubernetes - Should I disallow EC2 from accessing external networks to improve safety?
I want to use Kubernetes on some clouds (maybe Amazon, Google, etc). Should I disallow my EC2 machines from accessing the external network? My guess is as follows, and I wonder whether it is correct ...
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How to replace a third party AWS cloud accounts provider with bespoke account governance?
My company (an inward-looking institution without customer or external interface) has moved all operations from a local data centre to AWS a few years back, mostly to a handful of large AWS accounts (...
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Move rarely used files to another storage location (with nextcloud)
Lets say there is a NextCloud instance, that stores data on the local filesystem. Though the software is not that important, as I would like to implement it on OS level, to have the best performance.
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What is the best practice for managing Application Specific Users in GCP
Is there a "best practice" for managing application specific users for VMs in Google Cloud Platform? For example, in the old server world, you might have a "syslog" user for the ...
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Is there a per-connected-time (and per-storage-time) billed PostgreSQL server available in an european cloud?
A friend running a business with currently roughly 30 (somewhat elastic) employees asked me to make an existing personal/ desktop database available to his remote and somewhat distributed employees ...
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Simple cloud backup solution for Windows Server 2016
I have an instance Windows Server 2016 hosted on a virtual machine by our provider. It hosts a bunch of ASP.NET applications.
My backup solution is very basic: A batch file is run once a week (...
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AWS EC2 Windows server with S3 storage for Veeam backup
I want to create a remote repository for the backup of my local infrastructure.
I'm using Veeam v10.
I think I need a remote machine with a Veeam component installed, then I was wondering if I can ...
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xRDP fails on Ubuntu Server 20.04 in Oracle Cloud VM instance and ubuntu-desktop installed
I am running into a problem where xRDP fails to respond to any RDP requests sent to a VM instance running in OCP under Ubuntu Server 20.04 with GNOME GUI installed (via sudo tasksel install ubuntu-...
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Google App Engine 500 internal server error
is there any way to solve this probleme but in my local m
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [...
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Worker Group VS Node Group EKS
I am trying to use https://registry.terraform.io/modules/terraform-aws-modules/eks/aws/12.2.0(Terraform AWS EKS provider)
What is the difference between worker nodes and node group?
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Consumption-based cloud service
For a current project I am looking for a cloud service which calculates the costs based on the processing power my application is using.
If my application only spends 5 minutes per hour doing any ...
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Vertically scale server in cloud without restart
For a current project of mine I need a cloud service which can (automatically) scale VMs vertically as the workload can not be scaled horizontally.
With scaling I mean assigning more RAM and/or CPU ...
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AWS VPC and VPN connection to Multiple Cloud or Datacenters with Datacenters having overlapping IP address ranges
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I have a requirement for Business continuity plan using AWS Cloud VPC with following requirements -
In our developer's AWS VPC private Subnet, we will have Workspaces (ie AWS secure ...
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How can I determine if it is cost-effective to move my site to cloud solution?
I have a large, busy site; it currently runs completely on a dedicated server that I rent each month for ~$700.
It has three parts that I think I could carve off to a cloud solution:
Media (image/...
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OpenVPN server on an Oracle Cloud computing instance: routing problems
I have an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS instance running in the Oracle Cloud "free tier". I set up OpenVPN on this VM following this guide (it's in German). Firewall port 1194/UDP open, IPv4 forwarding ...
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Can't connect to public cloud server via http/https in OVH
I'm new to OVH and trying to setup a site inside a public cloud server. I've got the server up and running and i can SSH into it, but can't get to port 80. (server has apache running and it can be ...
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Migrating to Cloud SaaS while keeping user data On-Premise AD
We are in the planning/brainstorming phase of considering migrating to Cloud.
We came to an initial conclusion that we don't want a full-cloud solution. We think "initially" it's in our best ...
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How to automatically print from Windows server to local printer
I have a Windows desktop app that runs in EC2 and works perfectly for user-related things (using the app through remote desktop), including printing to local printers. However, the software has a ...
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Why do cloud compute instances spin up VMs and not containers?
In AWS for example, when I spin up a new EC2 instance, it loads up a new VM, then populate the VM with a container image. This is the reason why spinning up new EC2 instances take 60-90 seconds to ...
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Do all cloud storage services store data as objects instead of files? [closed]
I've been using AWS S3, and I'm not happy that I can't do things like an rsync from the Linux server to do a backup on S3. It's because S3 stores objects I'm told and not files. Is this something all ...
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Why should I ever limit a load balancer to a specific availability zone (AWS)?
I'm starting to learn how to manage a cloud infrastructure and I'm going through the AWS documentation right now. If my question didn't make it obvious enough, I'm a complete beginner about this stuff....
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Is it possible to setup site-to-stie VPN for cloud instance to on-premise VPN?
I have instance in cloud (alicloud - very similar to AWS) that need to establish IPVPN connection to a destination server. However, the dest VPN server limits the incoming IP to only 192.168.40.34. As ...
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AWS vs GoogleCloud vs DigitalOcean – Which one to choose? [closed]
There is a growing startup hosted simply on a VPS at the moment.
I want to migrate it to a cloud, so I need:
Cloud MySQL storage
S3-compatible object storage
In the future I'll need Docker + k8s
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Best practice disk partitioning for Ubuntu server cloud image?
I have read in several places that it's good practice to mount /, /home and /var on separate partitions for a server, as a way of mitigating the risk of an unwanted app/action filling-up the disk.
In ...
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Error: IO error: lock /home/admin/chain/LOCK: Resource temporarily unavailable
After logging into my Azure linux vm through ssh. I cd
Error: IO error: lock /home/admin_dennis/.hsd/chain/LOCK: Resource temporarily unavailable
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Does load balancing increase bandwidth?
Say that i have a server that has 1Gbit bandwidth and i serve static files.Does adding another identical server and using a load balancer(running on the first server perhaps)double the bandwidth?Or ...
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Cannot connect to Google Cloud Services on GCE instance using an external static IP Address
I‘m trying to connect to services hosted on Google Cloud, e.g. gcr.io (which is very important to me as my Docker images are hosted over there) via a GCE instance. Using an external static IP address ...
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What is meant by Multi-Cloud Clustering? Can anyone help me in understanding it in detail? Any helpful articles will be highly appreciated [closed]
Can someone help me in understanding what Multi-Cloud Clustering is? How can it be done and which are the best options for Multi-Cloud Clustering in the market today? Thanks.
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Directory cleanup on Linux server
A while ago I acquired a small cloud server that is running cloudlinux.
I have realized that my disk space is filling up so I ran a command to see which folders or files occupy the most space and ...
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How to enable Password Based Authentication wiith SSH in Centos QCOW2 Image?
I need to deploy a CentOs Cloud Image on private server(kind of bare metal server). So i download CentOS cloud image and customize it with virt-customize having SSH enabled with Password ...
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What does gcloud auth revoke actually do?
I'm trying to use a service account to allow a web app to upload files periodically to Cloud Storage with "gsutil cp". During the installation of the gcloud utilities on the web server, I ran a ...
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100-1000 public IP addresses per instance in public cloud [closed]
I'd like to run an instance which can be accessed via 100-1000 different public addresses. It can be either IPv4 or IPv6. Is this possible to do in any public cloud currently? Preferably one of the ...
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Google cloud DNS
Google cloud DNS gives four nameservers, which appear to have IPv4 addresses. If an IPv6-only client tries to access a website, which uses Google Cloud nameservers, would the domain name get resolved ...
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Migrate a Server 2008 R2 VM from atlantic.net to AWS
I have a number of servers on the Atlantic Net Cloud put up many years ago, and now we have most of our stuff on AWS. The nice thing about AWS is it allows me to shut down (and not pay for) a rarely ...
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Windows RDP and VPN from inside
I have a quite strange problem and I'm not sure how to set it up properly.
I have 2 Windows servers in the cloud with RDP (I know, not the smartest thing to do, but I don't have the place for ...
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How to do development for public cloud deployment locally on-premises
What if I want to do local development for cloud deployment? What options do I have? I have seen some hybrid approaches(Azure Stack, AWS Outpost), there is also this abstract layer toolkits(libCloud, ...
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Are oversubscription and overcommitment the same?
I see the terms being used together in the context of QoS and compute resource usage in the cloud, but I am lacking a formal definition of the terms and how they relate.
For example, this ...
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Is there an exteded switch role for Azure?
I have been using extended switch roles on AWS. Now I want to use a similar functionality or extension for Azure also. I searched on web but did not find much regarding this. Following is the link to ...