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

Scalegrid

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. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

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Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Dynatrace

If you’re running your own data center, you can start powering it with green energy purchased through your utility company. The complication with this approach is that your energy bill will likely increase. Next, we consider possible energy savings in the data center. So you’ll have to look elsewhere for energy savings!”

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An introduction to generative AI with Swami Sivasubramanian

All Things Distributed

The VP of database, analytics and machine learning services at AWS, Swami Sivasubramanian, walks me through the broad landscape of generative AI, what we’re doing at Amazon to make large language and foundation models more accessible, and how custom silicon can help to bring down costs, speed up training, and increase energy efficiency for our customers. (..)

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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

An essential observability engineering tool Prometheus is an open-source telemetry database service that records and stores custom software metrics and provides a standardized interface to pull (in Prometheus terms, “scrape”) data using HTTP requests. To set the stage, let’s have a quick recap of what Prometheus is and what it does.

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Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Dynatrace

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. But energy consumption isn’t limited to training models—their usage contributes significantly more.

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint. AWS speaker: T.

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Preliminary Thoughts on the White House Executive Order on AI

O'Reilly

The recent discovery (documented by an exposé in The Atlantic ) that OpenAI, Meta, and others used databases of pirated books, for example, highlights the need for transparency in training data. Energy usage and other environmental impacts.

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