TL:DR can you summarize it?

What are containers in 50 words or less.😨

@Reid-Cooper said:

@Dashrender said:

I have no idea how Azure licenses stuff - I wouldn't have thought that you could buy a Datacenter server license for MS's own cloud solution, but what do I know?

I think that DC might be the license that is provided. I do not believe that you can bring your own license, but what you get does come with a license of some sort.

Getting a DC license in that case seems weird to me then, unless it allows you more resource usage than standard (does it in Server 2012 R2?) Of course it allow allows for you to run all the VMs under a single hardware server as well - but I'm guessing that the licensing you're getting as part of Azure isn't a full DC license, additionally, because it is cloud based, you wouldn't be properly licensed in a situation like that anyway since MS could move your workload onto different hardware without you ever knowing it, and now you'd be out of compliance.

So, if you really need to run 10 servers on Azure, you just need to purchase 10 instances, right?

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

I just realized what the "Big red V" is....

Not to be confused with the big pink V.

And what is that?

I have no idea either.

Here is the VM offerings table.

VM Size Cores RAM Storage Persistent Data Disks Max Standard_G1 2 28 412 4 Standard_G2 4 56 824 8 Standard_G3 8 112 1,649 16 Standard_G4 16 224 3,298 32 Standard_G5 32 448 6,596 64

Good to know.

Azure has its own object storage mechanism (similar to Swift in OpenStack or S3 in Amazon AWS) so to allow you to learn or test behavior they have an emulator so that you can mimic that storage locally.

@ambarishrh said:

@StrongBad I like it, but I am still a fan of Amazon web services! 🙂

Glad to hear from another AWS fan!

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Can't just revert back a DC.

In that case, it'd be a simple matter of tossing the old DC and spinning up a new one. More of an annoyance than anything else.

Yes. Mostly stateless. Would be scary if you put all DCs on azure though. Or any live/live system like this where an environmental change might lock out the entire environment.

I have my entire environment on AWS, spread across two geographic regions with a site-to-site VPN. Upping it a level would be putting one part on AWS and the other on Azure, with a site-to-site VPN between the two.

Yes. Having one node in Rackspace would have protected against this.