Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Thus, using Dedicated Log Volumes (DLVs), though new in AWS RDS, has been one of the recommended best practices and is a welcome setup improvement for your RDS instance. and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28

AWS 101

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 101

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.)

AWS 52

AWS Energy Azure Google 52

Simform

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Read this blog to understand and analyze the comparison between AWS Lambda vs Azure Functions vs Google Cloud Functions. The post AWS Lambda vs Azure Functions vs Google Cloud Functions: Comparing Serverless Providers appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

Lambda 111

Lambda Serverless Azure Google 111

Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

This week Dynatrace achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Competency status in the new Applied Artificial Intelligence (Applied AI) category. The designation reflects AWS’ recognition that Dynatrace has demonstrated deep experience and proven customer success building AI-powered solutions on AWS.

AWS 143

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation 143

Simform

JUNE 12, 2022

Despite being fundamentally different as serverless compute engines, there has been an ongoing comparison between AWS’s Fargate and Lambda. To help you choose the right technology for your serverless application, we explore AWS fargate vs. Lambda in this post, comparing the two based on various factors with examples and use cases.

Lambda 59

Lambda Serverless AWS Technology 59

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

AWS 64

AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). In comparison, on-premises clusters have more and larger nodes: on average, 9 nodes with 32 to 64 GB of memory.

Open Source 340

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 340

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Log queries using comparison operators like `<` and `>` are now correctly rejected as unsupported. (APM-329649). Fixed an issue in which the Client IP of an AWS Lambda invoked via API Gateway and monitored with OneAgent for AWS Lambda (Python, Node, Java) was additionally redundantly displayed as proxy IP. (APM-325810).

Lambda 190

Lambda Azure Metrics Monitoring 190

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Carbon Impact dashboard: Your IT carbon footprint overview The Carbon footprint summary reports total CO2e emissions for the selected and preceding timeframes for quick interval-based comparisons. For example, you could view underutilized instances in a specific AWS data center or top CO2e emitters within a specific host group.

Energy 182

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 182

High Scalability

AUGUST 31, 2018

Bernard Golden : I see Snowball Edge with EC2 as an AWS initiative designed to reduce the friction of migrating data into AWS with the ultimate goal of enabling applications to migrate to AWS, not a way to run AWS applications on-prem. It's too often an apples/oranges comparison. Andy Hertzfeld : Steve got mad.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 105

Scalegrid

MARCH 2, 2021

When considering a new cloud provider, the big names come to mind - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. If you’re a developer, you might even be considering a dev-friendly cloud like DigitalOcean or Linode. But, did you know there’s a (relatively) new player in the cloud game? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a cloud computing […].

Cloud 246

Cloud Database Azure Games 246

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

The company utilizes public cloud resources such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) for streaming purposes and maintains on-premises infrastructure for content creation and processing. What is the primary benefit of multi-cloud solutions in comparison to hybrid cloud solutions? </p>

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As I'm interested in the relative comparison I can just compare the total runtimes (the "real" time) for the same result. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration. Other EC2 instance types, such as C5 or M5, use the AWS Nitro Hypervisor.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

MAY 16, 2019

Here’s a quick graphical comparison of the Pivotal Dev-to-Ops ratio, that of the Dynatrace elite category, and the average ratio identified by the survey. GitHub, Bitbucket, or AWS CodeCommit for version control. As an industry best practice, we like to refer to Pivotal, the developers of Cloud Foundry.

Innovation 186

Innovation Cloud DevOps Best Practices 186

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

This is why we caution against defaulting to Azure Database, or it’s AWS competitor, Amazon RDS, as they do not allow you to keep MySQL superuser access or even SSH access to your machines. For many enterprise businesses, the decision largely comes down to customization and control. High Availability Deployment.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. As we’ll see later, cloud certifications (specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure) were the most popular and appeared to have the largest effect on salaries. The top certification was for AWS (3.9%

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Clouds using Ethernet that are multipath optimized using libfabric and features like EFA on AWS are going to be increasingly competitive, and Ethernet will replace other interconnects between racks. In comparison, for Linpack Frontier operates at 68% of peak capacity.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

O'Reilly

AUGUST 8, 2023

At its peak, ChatGPT was in very exclusive company: it’s not quite on the level of Python, Kubernetes, and Java, but it’s in the mix with AWS and React, and significantly ahead of Docker. Since then, it’s been beaten by Facebook’s Threads, though that’s not really a fair comparison.) There are plenty of reasons for this surge.

Artificial Intelligence 72

Artificial Intelligence Programming Games Open Source 72

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al.,

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As I'm interested in the relative comparison I can just compare the total runtimes (the "real" time) for the same result. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration. Other EC2 instance types, such as C5 or M5, use the AWS Nitro Hypervisor.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there is one question regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily : When should I use Aurora and when RDS MySQL ? I found the comparison of InnoDB vs. MyISAM quite interesting, and I’ll use it in this post. About ZFS Performance. Tuning InnoDB Primary Keys.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As I'm interested in the relative comparison I can just compare the total runtimes (the "real" time) for the same result. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration. Other EC2 instance types, such as C5 or M5, use the AWS Nitro Hypervisor.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Support for write authorization policies (with some tricky consistency considerations for data-dependent policies) is future work, as is the development of a policy-checker (perhaps similar to Amazon’s SMT-based policy checker for AWS ) to help ensure policies themselves are consistent and complete.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. The evaluation is performed using the MNIST dataset, since that has the most results available in the literature for comparison. ASPLOS’19.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

It also supports storing the backups on filesystem and AWS S3 buckets. root@ip-172-31-37-92 ~]# aws ec2 describe-snapshots --query "sort_by(Snapshots, &StartTime)[-1].{SnapshotId:SnapshotId,StartTime:StartTime}" There are several general methods to take the filesystem level backup, also known as physical backups. mongodb-27017.sock

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure. AWS OpsWorks Unique Features.

AWS 157

AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure 157

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 For my test, I need to choose: Aurora instance type and comparison. Aurora instance type and comparison. SSD) we can’t utilize the full potential of IOPS with just one thread. running on an EC2 instance of the same class.

Cache 48

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 48

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

When done, you’ll end up with results like this side-by-side comparison: This side-by-side comparison of an Unsplash image from Luke Jeremiah shows a compressed file and an original JPG. Source: Unsplash ) ( Large preview ). This is a JPG from Unsplash.

Mobile 62

Mobile Media Website Storage 62

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 30, 2014

We’ve seen these sorts of comparison before, and frankly claiming that you “might” not need jQuery is an awful innocent statement to make. Not all of these snippets were exactly identical to the jQuery code in terms of what they accomplished, but they were pretty close.

Mobile 40

Mobile AWS Code Testing 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Oracle have a similar useful page as well: the Linux to Oracle Solaris 11 comparison, as well as a [procedure] for migrating from Solaris to Linux. But there's another factor at play: jobs are also migrating from both Solaris and Linux to cloud jobs instead, specifically AWS. From another tracker, for the US: Source: www.indeed.com.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

In comparison, the countries with prevalent zero rating practices from their wireless carriers consistently saw data prices increase. Last time I checked, AWS was still lagging behind Azure and GCP on Kubernetes, but I have a strong feeling they're prioritizing improving EKS over ECS. Are there more quotes?

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Alternatively, you can also use: Addy Osmani’s Chrome UX Report Compare Tool , Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Also check DNS Performance comparison and Cloud Peformance Comparison. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Historically the focus of our tooling and platform has been on AWS EC2, but with more users making the migration, we need to provide better support for container use cases. This makes it much easier for engineers to get the graphs they want arranged in a manner for comparisons and to focus in the required areas.

Performance 211

Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 211

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As shown in Figure 5, packaging locally using non-NVMe local storage such as AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) and then uploading takes more time than using MezzFS, but doing the same with NVMe SSD takes less time.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. A comparison of respondent organization size and share of applications hosted in the cloud. Amazon and AWS Ascendant. Serverless Stagnant.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. Now, thousands of customers are trying Amazon SageMaker and building ML models on top of their data lakes in AWS. In machine learning, more is usually more. Acceleration and distribution.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159