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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

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Cloud Testing: How to overcome the challenges of testing on-premise?

Testsigma

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. The security and data storage infrastructure has to meet certain security compliances and standards; only then, the infrastructure is good to go for testing. Scalability comes at a price.

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AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors and SQL Server

SQL Performance

It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware). The corresponding preferred 2 nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors for SQL Server at each core count are shown in Figure 3. Conclusion.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. All Things Distributed. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming. It would have had no way of propagating Nitro across an entire vertical stack of hardware and software services.

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