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CaaS

A CaaS (Containers-as-a-Service) Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining container-based application delivery platforms that enable developers to rapidly deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications. The job description for a CaaS Engineer typically includes: 

1. Designing and implementing containerization strategies: A CaaS Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing containerization strategies that meet the needs of the organization. This involves working with developers and infrastructure teams to define containerization requirements and selecting the appropriate containerization technologies. 
2. Developing container-based application delivery platforms: A CaaS Engineer builds and maintains container-based application delivery platforms that enable developers to rapidly deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications. This includes setting up container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, and configuring container images, networks, and storage. 
3. Monitoring and optimizing container platforms: A CaaS Engineer is responsible for monitoring container platforms for performance, availability, and security issues. This includes identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, optimizing container configurations, and implementing security best practices. 
4. Automating container platform management: A CaaS Engineer automates the management of container platforms to streamline operations and reduce manual intervention. This includes developing automation scripts, integrating container platforms with CI/CD pipelines, and implementing DevOps practices. 
5. Collaborating with development teams: A CaaS Engineer works closely with development teams to provide guidance and support for containerization and application delivery. This includes providing training and documentation on containerization best practices, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing containerized applications for performance and scalability. 
6. Staying up to date with containerization technologies: A CaaS Engineer keeps up to date with the latest containerization technologies and trends, and evaluates new containerization tools and techniques for potential adoption. This includes attending industry conferences, participating in online communities, and collaborating with peers to share knowledge and best practices.

Free Cloud Services/Tools

AWS (aws.amazon.com) - ANALYTICS - AWS Glue Simple, flexible, and cost-effective extract, transform, and load (ETL) service. 1 Million objects stored in the AWS Glue Data Catalog 1 Million requests made per month to the AWS Glue Data Catalog - AWS Data Exchange Easily find and use third-party data sets delivered via APIs, files, or Amazon Redshift tables. 1,600+ free third-party data sets - APPLICATION INTEGRATION - Amazon SQS Scalable queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. 1,000,000 Requests - Amazon SWF Task coordination and state management service for Cloud applications. 10,000 Activity Tasks 30,000 Workflow-Days 1,000 Initiated Executions - AWS Step Functions Coordinate components of distributed applications. 4,000 state transitions per month - BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY - Amazon Chime Amazon Chime is a modern unified communications service that offers frustration-free meetings with exceptional audio and video. Amazon Chime Basic subscription is free to use for as long you'd like - Amazon Honeycode Amazon Honeycode enables you to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. Amazon Honeycode is free to use for teams with up to 20 members and 2,500 rows per workbook - COMPUTE - AWS Lambda Compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources. 1,000,000 free requests per month Up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month - CONTENT DELIVERY - Amazon CloudFront Web service to distribute content to end users with low latency and high transfer speeds. 1 TB of Data Transfer Out 10,000,000 HTTP or HTTPS Requests 2,000,000 CloudFront Function Invocations - CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT - Amazon SES Cost-effective email service in the Cloud. 62,000 Outbound Messages per month to any recipient when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk. 1,000 Inbound Messages per month - DATABASE - Amazon DynamoDB Fast and flexible NoSQL database with seamless scalability. 25 GB of Storage 25 provisioned Write Capacity Units (WCU) 25 provisioned Read Capacity Units (RCU) Enough to handle up to 200M requests per month. - AWS Database Migration Service Migrate databases with minimal downtime. 750 Hours of Amazon DMS Single-AZ dms.t2.micro instance usage 50 GB of included General Purpose (SSD) storage - DEVELOPER TOOLS - Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications. 10 Custom Metrics and 10 Alarms 1,000,000 API Requests 5GB of Log Data Ingestion and 5GB of Log Data Archive 3 Dashboards with up to 50 Metrics Each per Month - AWS CodeArtifact AWS CodeArtifact is a fully managed artifact repository service that makes it easy for organizations of any size to securely store, publish, and share software packages used in their software development process. First 2GB-month of storage per month First 100,000 requests per month - AWS CodeBuild Fully managed build service that builds and tests code in the cloud. 100 build minutes per month of build.general1.small compute type usage - AWS CodeCommit Highly scalable, managed source control service. 5 active users per month 50 GB-month of storage per month 10,000 Git requests per month - AWS CodePipeline Continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application updates. 1 Active Pipeline per month - AWS X-Ray Analyze and debug your applications. 100,000 traces recorded per month 1,000,000 traces scanned or retrieved per month - MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE - AWS Resource Explorer Use AWS Resource Explorer to easily search for and discover your resources across AWS Regions. Use AWS Resource Manager on free instances without incurring charges. Normal AWS rates are applied for applications that require more resources than the default environment provides. - MANAGEMENT TOOLS - AWS CloudFormation Model and provision all your cloud infrastructure resources with code to enable configuration compliance and faster troubleshooting. 1,000 handler operations per month per account $.0009* per handler operations over 1,000 per month *$.00008 per second for handler operation durations over 30 seconds Data transfer - billed at standard AWS data transfer rates - AWS CloudTrail Log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure. Free - View, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services. Free - Set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events. Additional rates will apply for any data event and for additional copies of management events beyond the first copy in each region. See product information for more detail - AWS Control Tower The easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure multi-account AWS environment. No additional charge to use AWS Control Tower. AWS services configured to set up your landing zone and mandatory guardrails will incur costs based on service usage. - AWS License Manager Set rules to manage, discover, and report third-party license usage proactively. Unlimited - set as many rules as you want to manage third-party license usage Use AWS License Manager on free instances without incurring charges. Normal AWS rates are applied for applications that require more resources than the default environment provides. - AWS Organizations Centrally manage billing; control access, compliance and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts. Available to all AWS customers at no additional charge - AWS re:Post A community-driven, questions-and-answers service to help AWS customers remove technical roadblocks. Guidance from AWS re:Post is always free as part of the AWS Free Tier. - AWS Service Catalog Create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. The AWS Service Catalog free tier includes 1,000 API calls per month. If you exceed this number of calls per month, you will be charged the AWS Services Catalog usage rates. - AWS Systems Manager Centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. Free Systems Manager Features - Explorer, Resource Groups, Insights Dashboard, Inventory, Run Command, Session Manager, Patch Manager, Maintenace Window, State Manager, Parameter Store, On-Premises Instance Management, Distributor. Limits may apply to Systems Manager features provided at no additional charge. - AWS Well-Architected Tool Review your architecture and adopt best practices with the AWS Well-Architected Tool. To use this free tool, define your workload, and answer a set of questions across the five pillars of the Well Architected Framework. The AWS Well-Architected Tool then provides a plan on how to architect for the cloud using AWS best practices. - MIGRATION - AWS Application Discovery Service Collects server specification information, performance data, and details of running processes and network connections. If you reach the Free Tier limit, and want to import new applications, you can delete existing applications with the DeleteApplications API action. - AWS Application Migration Service Simplify and expedite migrations while reducing cost. Migrate an unlimited number of servers at no charge (for up to 90 days per server). Migrate applications to the cloud without changes and with minimal downtime. Automatically convert source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. Use same automated process for a wide range of applications. - AWS Migration Hub Track an unlimited number of applications and obtain unlimited EC2 recommendations Migration Hub is a single location to track the progress of application migrations Organize resources into applications, obtain right-sized EC2 instance recommendations, and track the progress of your application migrations across multiple AWS and partner solutions. - Migration Evaluator Migration Evaluator helps customers rapidly see projected costs of running their on-premises estate in AWS. Unlimited pre-migration assessment requests to simplify discovery, project cloud costs and accelerate migration decisions. - MOBILE - Amazon SNS Fast, flexible, fully managed push messaging service. 1,000,000 Publishes 100,000 HTTP/S Deliveries 1,000 Email Deliveries - SECURITY, IDENTITY, & COMPLIANCE - Amazon Cognito Simple and Secure User Sign-Up, Sign-In, and Access Control. The Your User Pool feature has a Free Tier of 50,000 MAUs each month** 10 GB of cloud sync storage. Expires 12 months after sign-up. 1,000,000 sync operations per month. Expires 12 months after sign-up. - AWS Key Management Service AWS Key Management Service is a managed service that provides easy encryption with administrative controls. 20,000 free requests per month - AWS Resource Access Manager Securely share your resources across AWS accounts or within your organization. Available to all AWS customers at no additional charge - AWS Security Hub Automate AWS security checks and centralize security alerts. After the first 30 days, users receive: 10,000 ingested findings per account per region per month. - AWS WAF Bot Control Protect your web applications from common and pervasive web bots 10,000,000 requests processed by Bot Control per month - STORAGE - AWS Storage Gateway Hybrid cloud storage with seamless local integration and optimized data transfer. First 100 GB per account is free No transfer charges into AWS Azure (portal.azure.com) - AI + MACHINE LEARNING Azure Bot Service Develop intelligent, enterprise-grade bots that scale on demand. 10,000 premium channel messages and unlimited standard channel messages - Azure Cognitive Search Include a cloud search service in your web and mobile application. 50 MB storage for 10,000 hosted documents and 3 indexes per service - COMPUTE - Azure App Service Quickly create powerful apps for any platform or device using your choice of tools including Node.js and PHP. 10 web, mobile, or API apps with 1 GB storage 1 hour per day - Azure Batch Scale your application in the cloud with job orchestration and scheduling for HPC applications. Free - Azure Functions Process events with a serverless code architecture. 1 million requests - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose. Free - CONTAINERS - Azure Notification Hubs Send push notifications to any platform from any back end. 1 million push notifications with free namespace - Azure Service Fabric Build and operate always-on, scalable, distributed apps. Free - DATABASES - Azure Cosmos DB Build modern apps at any scale using a fast NoSQL database with open APIs. 1,000 request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage - Azure Data Factory Compose and manage data services at scale. 5 low-frequency activities - DEVELOPER TOOLS - Azure DevOps Build apps in any language using Git repos, CI/CD, and build and release automation. 5 users with unlimited private Git repos - Azure DevTest Labs Enable fast, easy, and lean dev-test environments. Free - INTEGRATION - Azure API Management Manage APIs across all platforms with a hybrid, multicloud platform. 1 million monthly calls free with Consumption tier - Azure Event Grid Get reliable event delivery at massive scale. 100,000 operations - Azure Logic Apps Build automated integration solutions across clouds and on-premises systems. 4,000 built-in actions with the Consumption plan - INTERNET OF THINGS - Azure Maps Create location-aware web and mobile applications using geospatial services, APIs, and SDKs. 1,000 to 5,000 transactions for specific mapping and location insights features - MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE - Azure Advisor Get personalized recommendations and best practices for Azure. Unlimited - Azure Cloud Shell Manage Azure resources in a browser-based shell using popular command-line tools and programming languages. 5 GB free storage in Azure Files for 12 months - Azure Managed Applications, Service catalog Make it easier to acquire services with a catalog of approved cloud offerings. Free publishing - SECURITY - Azure Security Center Prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility and control over the security of your Azure resources. Free policy assessment and recommendations Google - App Engine 28 hours per day of "F" instances 9 hours per day of "B" instances 1 GB of egress per day The Google Cloud Free Tier is available only for the Standard Environment. - Artifact Registry 0.5 GB storage per month - AutoML Natural Language 5000 units of prediction per month - AutoML Tables 6 node hours for training and prediction - AutoML Translation 500,000 translated characters per month - AutoML Video Intelligence 40 node hours for training 5 node hours for prediction - AutoML Vision 40 node hours for training and online prediction 1 node hour for batch classification prediction 15 node hours for Edge training - BigQuery 1 TB of querying per month 10 GB of storage each month - Cloud Build 120 build-minutes per day - Cloud Deploy First active delivery pipeline (per billing account) - Cloud Functions 2 million invocations per month (includes both background and HTTP invocations) 400,000 GB-seconds, 200,000 GHz-seconds of compute time 5 GB network egress per month - Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring Free monthly logging allotment Free monthly metrics allotment - Cloud Natural Language API 5,000 units per month - Cloud Run 2 million requests per month 360,000 GB-seconds of memory, 180,000 vCPU-seconds of compute time 1 GB network egress from North America per month The Free Tier is available only for Cloud Run. - Cloud Shell Free access to Cloud Shell, including 5 GB of persistent disk storage - Cloud Source Repositories Up to 5 users 50 GB of storage 50 GB egress - Cloud Storage 5 GB-months of regional storage (US regions only) per month 5,000 Class A Operations per month 50,000 Class B Operations per month 100 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month Free Tier is only available in us-east1, us-west1, and us-central1 regions. Usage calculations are combined across those regions. - Cloud Vision 1,000 units per month - Compute Engine 1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance per month in one of the following US regions: Oregon: us-west1 Iowa: us-central1 South Carolina: us-east1 30 GB-months standard persistent disk 5 GB-month snapshot storage in the following regions: Oregon: us-west1 Iowa: us-central1 South Carolina: us-east1 Taiwan: asia-east1 Belgium: europe-west1 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month Your Free Tier e2-micro instance limit is by time, not by instance. Each month, eligible use of all of your e2-micro instance is free until you have used a number of hours equal to the total hours in the current month. Usage calculations are combined across the supported regions. Compute Engine free tier does not charge for an external IP address. GPUs and TPUs are not included in the Free Tier offer. You are always charged for GPUs and TPUs that you add to VM instances. - Firestore 1 GB storage per project 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes, 20,000 deletes per day, per project - Google Kubernetes Engine No cluster management fee for one Autopilot or Zonal cluster per billing account. For clusters created in Autopilot mode, pods are billed per second for vCPU, memory and disk resource requests. For clusters created in Standard mode, each user node is charged at standard Compute Engine pricing. - Google Maps Platform For more information, see the Pricing page. - Pub/Sub 10 GB of messages per month - reCAPTCHA Enterprise 1,000,000 assessments.create or siteverify calls per month - Secret Manager 6 active secret versions per month 10,000 access operations per month 3 secret rotation notifications per month - Speech-to-Text 60 minutes per month - Video Intelligence API 1,000 units per month - Workflows 5,000 internal steps per month 2,000 external HTTP calls per month Alibaba - ActionTrail FunctionOut-of-box service, Self-service management, Multi-dimensional event query Implements security analytics, resource change tracking, and compliance audits. - Anti-DDoS Basic Support ECS、SLB、EIP、WAF Basic DDoS protection integrated with ECS The maximum protection capability is 5 Gbit/s - Application Configuration Management Centralizes management of application configurations. - Auto Scaling Adjust and automate computing resources - Container Registry A secure image hosting platform Scenarios：Global business deployment，Large-scale business deployment，Efficient DevSecOps environment building based on containers，Efficient DevSecOps environment building based on containers - Container Service for Kubernetes TypeDedicated Kubernetes, Serverless Kubernetes A fully-managed service compatible with Kubernetes to help users focus on their applications - Database Autonomy Service Type Basic Edition A self-perception, repair, optimization, and security database service - DataWorks Type Basic Edition Centralizes management of application configurations. - DMS - Flexible Management SupportRelational Databases, OLAP Databases, NoSQL databases An integrated data management solution - Function Compute Invocations 1 million/month Time400,000 CU-second A secure and stable, elastically scaled, O&M-free, pay-as-you-go, serverless computing platform. 1 million invocations and 400,000 CU-second compute resources/month - Key Management Service Free monthly request quota 20, 000 One-stop service platform for key management and data encryption. KMS provides simple, reliable, secure, and standard-compliant capabilities to encrypt and protect data - Machine Translation Free monthly request quota1, 000, 000 Relying on Alibaba's leading natural language processing and deep learning technology, based on massive e-commerce data, we provide customized high-quality machine translation services for Alibaba Cloud users. - Operation Orchestration Service Support InstanceECS, RDS, SLB,VPC ModeAutomatic execution, Semi-automatic execution, and Interactive execution Automated operations and maintenance service to manage and execute O&M tasks - Resource Access Management An identity and access control service which enables you to centrally manage your users. - Resource Orchestration Service Support InstanceECS, RDS Simplify operations and management - Security Center - Basic Edition Type Basic Edition Round the clock security and protection Use the services to detect unusual logons to your servers, DDoS attacks, mainstream types of vulnerabilities on your servers, and service configuration risks - Virtual Private Cloud Support InstanceECS, RDS, SLB Launch a private cloud network - Web App Service A PaaS that helps you run and manage applications Oracle ibm clou tencent ovhcloud digital ocean linode