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What is FinOps? How to keep cloud spend in check

Dynatrace

Spiraling cloud architecture and application costs have driven the need for new approaches to cloud spend. Nearly half (49%) of organizations believe their cloud bill is too high , according to a CloudZero survey. million on cloud computing , while large enterprises shell out upward of $12 million annually.

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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

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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Don’t follow the sun: Scheduling compute workloads to chase green energy can be counter-productive

Adrian Cockcroft

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. You can think of the spot market as the buffer capacity for a cloud provider.

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Amazon 2022 Sustainability Report?—?18 AWS Regions are 100% renewable

Adrian Cockcroft

They don’t break out AWS separately from the total, but the energy use for Amazon went from 85% renewable to 90% renewable, and the carbon footprint of their electricity use went down 29% year on year. It includes the energy generated by dedicated power purchase agreements, and renewable energy credits bought on the open market.

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Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Dynatrace

Many organizations face significant challenges in pursuing their cloud migration initiatives, which often accompany or precede AI initiatives. Worse, the costs associated with GenAI aren’t straightforward, are often multi-layered, and can be five times higher than traditional cloud services. Service reliability.

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. AWS speaker: T.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

Let’s start by assuming that you have figured out a way to estimate the energy consumption and carbon footprint for a workload that is sensitive enough to register changes in the way you run the workload. This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so.

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