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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Redshift is a data warehouse (aka OLAP database) offered by AWS. That seems kind of bad for AWS?

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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Modernizing on AWS: Strategies, Benefits, and Partnerships with Xebia

Xebia

Cloud modernization has become a prominent topic for organizations, and AWS plays a crucial role in helping them modernize their IT infrastructure, applications, and services. Overall, discussions on AWS modernization are focused on security, faster releases, efficiency, and steps towards GenAI and improved innovation.

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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

Kaseya

In addition, you can also take advantage of the reliability of multiple cloud data centers as well as responsive and customizable load balancing that evolves with your changing demands. In this blog, we’ll compare the three leading public cloud providers, namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

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Dynamic Routing with AWS Lambda@Edge

LaunchDarkly

Early in 2016, TrueCar decided to move internet operations off premises from its data centers to the AWS cloud. Some operational and logistical challenges were presented when TrueCar decided to move its internet infrastructure into the AWS cloud. Lambda@Edge NodeJS goodness.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? But only a couple of years later, I was running a bunch of stuff on top of AWS. Back then, AWS had something like two services: EC2 and S3. The genesis. Vertical toys.

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AWS Disaster Recovery Strategies – PoC with Terraform

Xebia

A regional failure is an uncommon event in AWS (and other Public Cloud providers), where all Availability Zones (AZs) within a region are affected by any condition that impedes the correct functioning of the provisioned Cloud infrastructure. For demonstration purposes, we are using HTTP instead of HTTPS. Pilot Light strategy diagram.