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Sustained use discounts

Automatic discounts* for running *VM instances for significant portion of the billing month * Example: If you use N1, N2 machine types for more than 25% of a month, you get a 20% to 50% discount on every incremental minute. * Discount increases with usage (graph) sustained-disc-gcp.png * No action required on your part! Automatically applied by the platform itself Applicable* for instances created by *Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Compute Engine RESTRICTION*: Does NOT apply on ce

Top down parsing

steps for top down parsing and exercises

Total Cost of Ownership Calculator

- Focuses on long-term value * Estimates savings with Azure migration * Also considers: * operational benefits * reduced downtime risks * scalability options Status: #idea Tags: az-900, azure, Cloud, cloud-billing References

Type of Interruption

Interrupts can be broadly categorized based on their causes, each enabling the processor to handle different types of events more efficiently by temporarily suspending the current task to address specific needs. The main types include: Program Interrupts These occur due to errors during instruction execution, such as arithmetic overflow, division by zero, illegal instructions, or memory access violations. They allow the system to manage such exceptions by stopping the program and signaling for

Virtual Memory

Clock policy, Page replacement algorithm Pasted image 20250104110430.png * virtual memory (due to many processes) can exceed the capacity of the physical memory * use backing store as a mechanism to accomodate the limited memory resources * backing store is usually taken from the hard disk and used for memory swapping Screenshot 2025-01-04 at 11.05.04 AM.png * when the requested page is not in the main memory it is considered a page fault Screenshot 2025-01-04 at 11.05.59 AM.png * there i

Zone-redundant storage (ZRS)

copies in availability zones within one region * Intermediate option with protection against datacenter-level failures. * Recommended for high availability scenarios. zrs.png Status: #idea Tags: az-900, azure, Cloud References