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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

In this article, we are going to compare three of the most popular cloud providers, AWS vs. Azure vs. DigitalOcean for their database hosting costs for MongoDB® database to help you decide which cloud is best for your business. We compare AWS vs. Azure vs. DigitalOcean using the below instance types: AWS. EC2 instances. VM instances.

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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. AWS calls this an Insufficient Capacity Exception (ICE) and works very hard to avoid it.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? If the objective under the performance efficiency pillar is achieved, it indicates successful cost reduction for the disk size.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. The multi-cloud platform allows you to deploy and manage on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud (coming soon) cloud platforms, or VMware on-premise environments.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom. Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure.

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

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