Configure WinSCP to Use SFTP with Oracle Compute Instance

WinSCP is a popular useful windows utility which is easy to use as long as users have access to a SSH server with SFTP/SCP support. 

WinSCP lets users to move files on their remote server, change permissions, create new directories or delete them. They can also edit a file directly from WinSCP by using its internal text editor. Also an external text editor can be integrated with WinSCP.

This blog post shows on how to configure WinSCP to use with Oracle Compute Instance using the Private key.

Configure Putty to SSH Into Oracle Compute Instance

In Cloud Computing environments there are many reasons why users need to access the VM environment to perform certain tasks.  Due to security concerns, Cloud vendors generally accept incoming access requests using Secure Shell (SSH) connections.

This blog post shows detailed information on how to configure Putty to access a Linux based Oracle Cloud Compute Instance using SSH.

Clone Block Storage Volumes in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Seconds

As per recent announcement, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has added the capability to clone a Block Storage Volume in seconds.  This is an important milestone at a time where cloud wars are experienced between various cloud platform vendors.

Cloning of a Block Storage volume is a critical functionality required by many of the enterprise customers.  How quickly a clone can be created is an important aspect for a Cloud Infrastructure provider.  

Does the time taken to create a clone of a block storage volume vary depending on the capacity of the block storage volume i.e., in GBs to TBs?