All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. The app translates utilization metrics, including CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O, into their CO2 equivalent (CO2e). For example, you could view underutilized instances in a specific AWS data center or top CO2e emitters within a specific host group.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry,” wrote anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in a 2022 article from MIT. “A These metrics include CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.”

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Working for a major airline not even a decade ago, I can remember trying to model content for mobile devices (yes! The delivery of static assets in formats such as WebP via a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is also crucial to serving your users a fast website. When modeling content schemas, think of the future.

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