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What Is IaaS? Meaning, Benefits and Examples Explained in 2025

Cloud computing services involve varying degrees of abstraction from the underlying infrastructure, so their delivery models differ from one another. Furthermore, the level of abstraction is often relative to control and ease of use — more abstraction often translates to greater user-friendliness and less control. There are three main delivery models in the cloud industry:...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 06 Feb'25 Last Updated: 31 Mar'25
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz

Object Storage vs Block Storage vs File Storage

In this comparative analysis, we look at object storage vs file storage vs block storage, the three main organizational patterns for storing cloud data. Each one offers a unique type of storage structure and accessibility, which affects their use cases, especially as it relates to cloud computing. The biggest difference between these storage systems is...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 29 Dec'24 Last Updated: 03 May'25
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

AWS Pricing: Models, Tiers and Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) pricing primarily follows a pay-as-you-go model, ensuring you pay only for usage. Though this is generally cost-efficient, there are various aspects to AWS billing. If you don’t understand them, you may miss out on huge savings through pricing models like Reserved Instances or Savings Plans. You may also incur some unexpected...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 23 Dec'24 Last Updated: 31 Mar'25
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz

Azure Disaster Recovery: Plan, Architecture, Services, Best Practices and Cost

Azure disaster recovery offers a backup and recovery system that helps you bring services back online quickly and with minimal effort in the wake of a cloud disaster, all while avoiding data loss. Though avoidable in part, outages, data loss and failures can always occur in the cloud. Events like these can leave you with...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 29 Oct'24 Last Updated: 31 Mar'25
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

Microsoft Azure for Small Business: Pros and Cons

Through its Azure for small business package, Microsoft Azure offers a vast range of cloud computing business capabilities for small businesses, including scalability, affordability and support. Azure cloud often has a relevant offering for any small business, no matter its size or revenue. Depending on the industry, small businesses are typically classified by revenue or...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 27 Oct'24 Last Updated: 31 Mar'25

Microsoft Azure App Service: Definition, How It Works, Types, Features and Pricing

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) tools like Microsoft Azure App Service make software delivery much more efficient, as they abstract the infrastructure deployment process. Microsoft Azure App Service in particular allows you to deploy applications in pre-configured environments on automatically provisioned infrastructure. Microsoft Azure App Service offers a cloud computing environment to deploy Python, PHP, Java and Node.js...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 22 Oct'24 Last Updated: 05 Apr'25

AWS Cost Optimization: Best Practices, Tools, Using Pricing Models and Benefits

Amazon Web Services’ pay-as-you-go pricing helps ensure you pay only for what you need, but cloud computing costs can balloon if not managed properly. This highlights the importance of AWS cost optimization. The good news is you can implement efficient AWS cost monitoring with tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Amazon S3 analytics, AWS Budgets and...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 22 Oct'24 Last Updated: 05 Apr'25
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz

Microsoft Azure Pricing: Models, Tiers and Services

Though Azure pricing is primarily pay-as-you-go, the specifics of certain cloud computing services’ pricing are not as straightforward. As a result, billing can be confusing and users can end up with unexpected charges. This Microsoft Azure pricing guide takes a deep dive into Azure cloud computing’s pricing pattern, examining the pricing models, how they work,...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 19 Oct'24 Last Updated: 07 Feb'25
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

Microsoft Azure Cost Optimization: Tools, Best Practices and Benefits 

Like many public cloud service providers, Azure costs are primarily usage-based, meaning you pay for only what you use. Though this pricing model is widely considered cost-effective, it remains so only if you integrate best practices for cost optimization into your cloud computing environment. If your expenses are ballooning out of control, you may be...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 19 Oct'24 Last Updated: 22 Oct'24
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a favorite among cloud users, owning 25% of the total cloud market share worldwide. Azure’s ease of integration and the quality of its hybrid and security solutions are impressive. However, you may get stuck with only Microsoft products in vendor lock-in. We explain more in this Microsoft Azure review.

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 18 Sep'24 Last Updated: 12 Feb'25
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz