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Dr. Logan Song
Dr. Logan Song
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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Azure cloud resource hierarchy

First, let us review the AWS hierarchy. An AWS account is an isolated unit for all the AWS services, such as EC2 instances and S3 buckets. AWS Billing is implemented at the AWS account level to charge for all AWS cloud resource consumption. When a new AWS service resource is created, it is always created within an AWS account. An AWS organization represents an organizational entity such as a company, and it includes multiple AWS accounts. In the AWS resource hierarchy, between the organization and the accounts are Organization Units (OUs), which may represent departments, teams, or projects within the company – each OU has one or multiple AWS accounts.

In contrast, a Google Cloud project is the isolated unit for Google Cloud resources and can be associated with a billing account that manages the Google Cloud resource consumption costs. Typically, there is a GCP organization, which has multiple projects, and between the organization and the projects...

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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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