This Week I Learned - Week #230

This Week I Learned -

* Azure Container Instances are billed per second

Managed disk support for "Azure to Azure DR" scenario using Azure Site Recovery is currently not supported. Recovery points are generated every 5 minutes. On top of that, if you select the "latest (lowest RPO)" option during Test Failover or Failover, the RPO will be even lesser. Site Recovery takes advantage of the Azure network infrastructure that connects regions to keep RTO and RPO very low.

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CloudPassage provides an automation platform, delivered via software as a service, that improves security for private, public, and hybrid cloud computing environments.

US President Donald Trump wiped off close to $5.7 billion through a single tweet wiped from the stock value of Amazon for a brief period. The US President had tweeted on Wednesday that the company was ‘doing great damage to tax paying retailers’.

* Infosys founders together own about 12.75 per cent stake in Infosys. It has 19 $100M+ clients

* The sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but it also happens to be 400 times farther away, which to the observer on the ground means they are almost identical in size.

* The Global Assets Under Management (AUM) of Open-end Mutual Fund schemes exceeded US$ 37.1 trillion, across 100,494 schemes as on Dec 31, 2015. The US had over $17.7 trillion in AUM, while Europe had $12.7 trillion. Asia Pacific countries had $4.7 trillion, of which Australia, China and Japan accounted for $1.52 Trillion, $1.26 Trillion and $1.33 Trillion respectively. Brazil, had over $743 Billion in Mutual Fund Assets. India had Assets of $168 Billion

RuPay cards presently has over 36% of market share in Indian card payment scheme behind Visa which has over 50% of the market share. More than 20% of the transactions in India is done through RuPay cards in India today.

* Sunnis are the more dominant form of Islam – at least 80 per cent of Muslims worldwide. Some Sunni dominated countries include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Syria

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