Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Comparing Cloud Instance Costs. So, which cloud provider provides the most cost-effective solution for database hosting? EC2 instances. VM instances. DigitalOcean.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If you use AWS cloud services to build and run your applications, you may be familiar with the AWS Well-Architected framework. This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JULY 18, 2023

Amazon 2022 Sustainability Report — 19 AWS Regions are 100% renewable Amazon released their 2022 sustainability report which includes an updated list of renewable AWS regions. For 2021 there were 12 AWS regions that were “over 95% renewable”. The Power Usage Efficiency of datacenters (how much energy is used for cooling etc.)

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. You must bring your laptop to participate.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 7, 2023

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. AWS calls this an Insufficient Capacity Exception (ICE) and works very hard to avoid it.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference, generative AI is a centerpiece. In this AWS re:Invent 2023 guide, we explore the role of generative AI in the issues organizations face as they move to the cloud: IT automation, cloud migration and digital transformation, application security, and more.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,

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