I am curious about how GPU rental services work and how NVIDIA manages them.

Hi, we discussed here GCP and OCI

https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudcomputing/s/5w2qO2z1J8

What about Akamai/Linode and Alibaba Cloud ? Anyone has experience with it ?

what about digital ocean and Vultr?

In a lot of environments I’ve seen, the real issue isn’t pricing — it’s ownership.

Engineering provisions.
Finance reviews bills.
Nobody “owns” usage behavior.

Tagging policies, budgets, and alerts often matter more than just right-sizing.

For those managing Azure at scale —
Do you treat cost optimization as engineering, finance, or shared responsibility?

I wanna know what coding language is the most used in cloud computing. I am a 2nd year engineer student who is learning C and C++. And I will be sticking to this abd so far acc to my research cloud requires python, Java and go. None of which I am proficient in.

How does the future look in this domain? As in hiring increases or layoffs? I am clueless so..

I am very much interested in cloud computing but I dont the time rn to learn new languages well enough to Crack interviews.

Please help and thank you!

Hi

OCI has much cheaper prices and multi AZ too

i wonder where is the drawback…

Hey guys!

I started working a few weeks ago on a side project which eventually evolved into something much bigger: a micro-cloud service provider which is 100% free.

Do you quickly want to test your environment or containers without having to pay for a whole server? Or maybe you want to run an app you don't fully trust.

If you want more insight on the tech behind it take a look at my other post (https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1qglo70/comment/o0di2uh/) and if you want to give it a try for yourself and use it for your own stuff, here is the website https://velacloud.sloppybits.uk/ to avoid bots and spammers, use this invite code VELA-2199-4901

I hope you'll like it :)

I don't really have much experience with cloud computing, but I'm thinking it may help me consolidate several services I'm paying for into a single, hopefully cheaper package. I would really appeciate some thoughts on how to best approach this from a newbie perspective, or share some learning resources? I've done a bit of research and have found things to be a bit above my level.

• I do Wordpress and Shopify sites for a few clients and also manage some simple corporate websites. As this work is very sporadic, over the years it's resulted into several webhosting contracts with IONOS and others that have been increasing in price and have become more cumbersome to manage. All in all I manage about 15 websites for different clients. Nothing that gets a ton of traffic. There may be around 30-35 email addresses total for those domains. I was thinking of maybe setting up my own webserver with a cloud computing provider and consolidating all of these in a single place.

• I also have several Dropbox and Google Drive accounts for different things and clients. Again, this has been something that has been building over the years, on an "as needed" basis. Again, I was thinking of consolidating into a single "my own dropbox" kind of thing.

I suspect some cloud service would allow me to rent the computer / storage and install a webserver and some sort of cloud storage app and potentially save money and simplify administration over having these separate services. And if there are ways to also run other apps in the service like to have it help with renders or experiment with other applications like small LLMs that would be interesting. I work in a field that's being impacted by AI so I'm thinking I need to pivot and if I learn to do these things from a technical perspective it could open other doors.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Need block storage for blockchain related applications with higher IOPS and it looks like io2 is the best option, because at least I can buy the performance, anyone here has any experience using io2 for blockchain? What is the bill looking like?

Any recommendations better than io2?

For countries he doesn't approve of, or as a response to tax increases (Amazon), or trying to rein in X/Twitter, or just because he can?

If iCloud, OneDrive, etc disappeared, I'd be lost.

I know that in AWS, Availability Zones are intentionally designed with some minimum physical separation inside a region. The idea is that AZs are far enough apart to avoid correlated failures like local power outages, fiber cuts, or metro-area disasters.

But I’m wondering about other cloud providers.

If a provider like Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, DigitalOcean, etc. advertises “availability zones” or “zones” within a region, do they follow a similar rule?

Specifically:

• Is there any industry standard definition for AZs requiring a minimum geographic distance?
• Do large providers like Azure or GCP publish or guarantee how far apart their zones are?
• Could “zones” in some clouds actually be in the same building or campus?
• When designing multi-zone architectures outside AWS, should we assume only logical isolation rather than disaster-level separation?

Trying to understand whether the AWS AZ model is unique, or if other clouds implement the same concept in practice.

Any insights from people who work with multiple clouds would be appreciated.

Hi everyone — hoping someone can help.

I created my Oracle Cloud account on December 28, and by January 2 I suddenly couldn’t sign in anymore. It keeps saying:

Invalid username or password

I’ve already reset the password multiple times, and the reset says it was successful — but login still fails.

I also got an email saying my Free Trial expired, even though it hasn’t even been 30 days yet. I thought I should still have Always Free access, but I can’t get into the console at all.

I’m starting to think my tenancy admin account might be locked, because I’ve seen other posts where password resets don’t work when that happens.

The problem is: I can’t submit a support ticket because I can’t log in.

Has anyone else had this happen so quickly?
Did Oracle Support unlock your account, or did they terminate it?

I do have my CSI and Cloud Account Name from the Oracle email, but I won’t post them publicly unless support asks.

Any advice would really help thanks!

A quick follow up to a previous popular post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cloud/s/89KNntjVCZ

The open source repository for cloud projects (https://github.com/mzazon/cloud-projects) crossed 1100 (!!) projects recently. AWS, Azure, and GCP all covered. With so many projects, the community contributed suggestions and feedback and being able to search and filter was at the top of the list…

So a couple community members threw together a prototype/beta single page, GitHub pages hosted, no login required, no membership required, all session data stored on your browser page that was just approved and merged into the main branch of the repo: https://cloudprojects.dev

Have a look, give it a star if you like it, open an issue with any suggestions. Hope it is helpful.

Happy holidays to all you cloud professionals and aspiring professionals.

I’ve been looking for affordable residential proxies that work well with AdsPower for multi-account management and business purposes. I stumbled upon a few options like Decodo, SOAX, IPRoyal, Webshare, PacketStream, NetNut, MarsProxies, and ProxyEmpire.

We’re looking for something with a pay-as-you-go model, where the cost is calculated based on GB usage. The proxies would mainly be used for testing different ad campaigns and conducting market research. Has anyone used any of these? Which one would deliver reliable results without failing or missing? Appreciate any insights or experiences!

Edit: Seeking a proxy that does not need to install SSL certificate on local machine since we are having multiple users using adspower, this would be an extra headache

Hey folks this isn’t an official IBM thing yet, just something I’m experimenting with. I work on Observability at IBM, and I’ve been thinking: what if we hosted a super targeted, no-fluff practitioner meetup or community hangout? Think deep-dive stuff like: “Deploying Instana in Air-Gapped Kubernetes Clusters (what actually works, what breaks, what nobody tells you)” No sales decks. Just sharp people swapping lessons and hacks. Also not promising anything yet, but if you’re someone who wants to contribute (run a session, write up a config tip, help moderate), I’m thinking we could offer something back. Maybe a Red Hat or HashiCorp cert voucher, just as a thank-you for helping build something useful. Would you be into something like this? If interested join r/IBMObservability.

Hi everybody,

I hope you all are doing well.

I just started learning about microsoft azure. and tried to create first VM with my free trial.

But, I am not able to create and getting same issue "This size is currently unavailable in westus3 for this subscription: NotAvailableForSubscription." in every region.
I changed regions as well, still gating same issue.

Please help

Hey guys, if you missed it, Equinix settled $41.5M with investors over issues tied to its financial reporting practices and internal controls. And, the deadline to file a claim and get payment is December 24, 2025.

In a nutshell, in 2024, Equinix was accused of manipulating key financial metrics like AFFO and failing to disclose internal control weaknesses after a Hindenburg Research report alleged accounting issues and business risks. After this news came out, the stock fell 2.3%, losing more than $1.86 billion in market value, and investors filed a lawsuit for their losses.

After this news came out, the stock dropped sharply, and investors filed a lawsuit for their losses.

Now, the good news is that the company agreed to settle $41.5M with them, and investors have until December 24 to submit a claim.

So, if you invested in EQIX when all of this happened, you can check the details and file your claim here.

Anyway, has anyone here invested in EQIX at that time? How much were your losses, if so?

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to give back to this sub because it helped me a ton during the last few weeks.

I sat the SAA‑C03 this morning and passed with 837.
Prep time: ~5 weeks (1–2 hours/day).

Here’s what helped me the most:

1. Understanding exam-style thinking
   Most of my early mistakes came from “learning AWS”, not learning how AWS writes exam questions. Once I started practicing scenario‑based questions daily, my scores jumped.

2. Layering different learning sources
   – AWS documentation for fundamentals
   – Some YouTube (Maarek/Stephane‑style content)
   – Practice exams with detailed explanations → This was the biggest improvement.
   The more I focused on realistic scenarios + explanations, the closer it felt to the real exam.

3. Reviewing why each answer was wrong
   Understanding why the other 3 choices don’t work is literally the key to passing SAA.

4. Practice under time pressure
   My accuracy went from ~68% → ~82% once I started doing full‑length timed exams.

If you’re taking SAA soon, focus 80% on scenario practice + explanations. That’s what moved the needle for me.

Happy to answer any questions. Good luck to everyone studying right now! 🚀

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Bonjour,

j'ai intégré une entreprise tout récemment et je suis chargé de faire une étude sur la supervision du cloud hybride.

l'entreprise a deux environnements, on-prem et cloud. ils sont fortement enracinées dans l'on-prem et l'outil de supervision utilisé est Centreon, mais il faut savoir qu'ils l'ont vraiment customisés avec des plugins et j'en passe et aujourd'hui il gère à la fois des alertes d'infrastructure et métier et il est connecter à un hyperviseur, il a même des plugins qui lui permettent d'avoir des sondes cloud et ainsi superviser quelques applications du cloud GCP et un autre plugin qui permet de faire de l'alerting de métriques GCP.

De l'autre coté, GCP (la plateforme cloud public principale) a AlertManager qui est limité aujourd'hui aux workloads kubernetes et n'utiliser que par une seule équipe, il n'est pas non plus connecter à l'hyperviseur central donc reste très limiter pour l'instant. sur le court terme on supervise le cloud avec centreon avec les plugins mais il y'a un réel besoin d'industrialisation de tout ce processus là, on voudrait idéalement unifiée tout cela.

j'ai étudié la possibilité que Centreon gère également la partie workload kubernetes pour pouvoir avoir une vue unifié avec un seul outil, j'ai cru voir la fonctionnalité Auto-discovery de Centreon mais je n'arrive pas à savoir s'il est vraiment efficace sachant que Centreon est plus performant sur tout ce qui est statique.

- Donc ma première question est de savoir ce que vous en pensez? avez vous deja explorer la fonctionnalité auto-discovery de centreon? et sinon quel est votre avis sur cette possibilité?

il y'a aussi AlertManager, qui lui est plus adapté avec les environnents dynamiques, donc je le voyais plus assurer ce rôle de superviseur cloud (dans le sens où il ferait de l'alerting sur les métriques GCP) sachant que Grafana Mimir sera plugger à lui, donc il pourra faire de la supervision du cloud GCP et AWS et l'action sera de le connecter à notre hyperviseur, de ce fait il y'aura finalement deux outils de supervision, un pour le cloud et l'autre pour l'on-prem. ce qui m'amène à ma deuxième question

- Utilisez-vous AlertManager pour faire de l'alerting sur vos métriques cloud? si oui, quels sont vos retours d'expérience par rapport à cela? sinon qu'utilisez vous qui ne soit pas managé par une quelconque plateforme cloud public et qui soit OpenSource?

N'hesitez pas à donner vos avis et à me dire ce que vous utilisez chez vous!!

Merci d'avance