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

Scalegrid

Since database hosting is more dependent on memory (RAM) than storage, we are going to compare various instance sizes ranging from just 1GB of RAM up to 64GB of RAM so you can see how costs vary across different application workloads. DigitalOcean using the below instance types: AWS. EC2 instances. VM instances. DigitalOcean. Learn more.

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

I’m expecting an update on their water sustainability program that was announced last year, and a new number for the amount of private purchase agreement (PPA) power that Amazon has under contract. Peter deSantis does a Monday evening technology keynote that usually has most of the sustainability related content in it.

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'Paris s'éveille'! Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region

All Things Distributed

In France, you can find one of the most vibrant startup ecosystems in the world, a strong research community, excellent energy, telecom, and transportation infrastructure, a very strong agriculture and food industry, and some of the most influential luxury brands in the world. Our AWS EU (Paris) Region is open for business now.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Unilever – Unilever R&D program intended to accelerate the company’s scientific progress through improved access to global information. Royal Dutch Shell – is one of the world’s largest companies.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. Allows Bluetooth Low Energy devices to safely communicate with web apps, eliminating the need to download heavyweight applications to configure individual IoT devices.

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