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How to Become a DevOps Engineer in 2025: A Roadmap for Individuals Without Experience

People across industries are increasingly drawn to DevOps positions as they can improve operational efficiencies and accelerate innovation. DevOps combines software development and IT operations to improve the speed, quality and reliability of software delivery. If you’re wondering how to become a DevOps engineer, this guide explains what you need to do to land DevOps...

By Kevin Kiruri — 09 Sep'24 Last Updated: 09 Sep'24
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz

How to Migrate From GCP to AWS: GCP to AWS Migration Guide

A GCP to AWS migration is a multi-step process. To ensure a seamless transition, you must assess your current GCP environment and plan your AWS architecture, data migration, application migration, testing and validation, and cutover and optimization; decommission the GCP resources; and finally, perform continuous monitoring and support. Overview of Steps to Migrate from GCP...

By Kevin Kiruri — 27 Aug'24 Last Updated: 27 Aug'24

AWS Region vs Availability Zone: Comparison of Location, Cost and Configuration

If you’re not familiar with Amazon’s terminology, it can be easy to confuse an AWS region vs availability zone. AWS regions are isolated geographical locations around the world in which AWS data centers are clustered. Each region contains multiple availability zones designed to offer high availability and fault tolerance. An AWS availability zone is a...

By Kevin Kiruri — 11 Aug'24 Last Updated: 19 Nov'24
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

AWS Resource Hierarchy: Organizations, OUs, Member Accounts and Resources

The AWS resource hierarchy is a multi-level access management system that helps ensure the accounts in AWS Organizations remain compliant, secure and within budget. It typically features four entities: organizations, organizational units, member accounts and resources. An AWS organization is a container that consolidates multiple AWS accounts. However, an organizational unit is a subdivision within...

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 30 Jul'24 Last Updated: 23 Dec'24

What Is Amazon S3? Features, Use Cases, Pricing & Benefits

What is Amazon S3? S3 stands for “Simple Storage Service” and it is a highly scalable, reliable and cost-effective cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers object storage designed to store and retrieve any amount of data anywhere on the web. S3’s primary features include high durability, data availability and security,...

By Mercy Wawira — 23 Jul'24 Last Updated: 30 Jul'24
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What is AWS Lambda? Definition, Features, How It Works, Use Cases, Pricing, and Benefits

Amazon Web Services is a huge ecosystem of hundreds of different services that serve different use cases. AWS Lambda is Amazon’s solution to serverless computing. Developers can use it to deploy code without worrying about infrastructure. AWS Lambda automatically responds to predefined events by executing a set of code. This makes Lambda well suited to...

By Kevin Kiruri — 19 Jul'24 Last Updated: 13 Mar'25
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier is a low-cost, easy-to-use, highly available and highly durable storage service. Its data retrieval flexibility based on multiple storage options is particularly impressive. This Amazon Glacier review dives into all it offers.

By Adeyomola Kazeem — 07 Jul'24 Last Updated: 04 Dec'24
Facts checked by Igor Kurtz

How to Backup NAS Devices Using Online Backup Software in 2025: Data Storage Redundancy

It’s easy to think your NAS is safe and that simply having one is all you need. However, if you want to protect your data as much as possible, you should learn how to backup NAS devices to the cloud.

By Sapphire Fox — 07 Jul'24 Last Updated: 03 Mar'25

20+ Biometrics Statistics, Trends & Facts for 2025

Think about the times you’ve been asked to position your fingers, face or eyes for identification at an airport or stadium. If you’re a business owner, you’ve probably used biometrics for employee identification or access control. Yet, how well do you understand biometric verification? Our biometric statistics guide will help you better understand the technology. ...

By Samuel Okoruwa — 05 Jul'24 Last Updated: 16 Aug'24
Facts checked by Simona Ivanovski

Ransomware 101: Security Course & Response Plan

Empower yourself with the knowledge and skills to defend against ransomware attacks and safeguard your digital assets with confidence

By Ben Schmitt — 27 Apr'24 Last Updated: 13 Jul'24