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

CIO

If you look at Amazon’s journey, and the way they run their data centers, they claim to be five times more energy efficient than an average data center.” Choice closed one data center last year and plans to close its second data center in 2023.

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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. You want to run things in the same cloud provider 9 and in the same data center 10. Databases, running code, you name it.

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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. The solution that we devised emerged after the Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Lambda@Edge in mid-2017. Lambda@Edge NodeJS goodness. In our initial testing, Lambda@Edge performed well, within a Region.

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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? I'm excited for a world where a normal software developer doesn't need to know about CIDR blocks to connect a Lambda with an RDS instance. The genesis. Vertical toys.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO

If you’re in the business of data centers or perhaps have a heavy research and development arm, you might be able to do it more cheaply yourself,” says Ciena CIO Craig Williams, who admits this may be an outlier position. “We There’s a lot more transparency there,” says CIO Vipul Nagrath of the cloud cost landscape today.

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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions

CIO

For example, CIOs on a budget can reduce generative AI costs by using open-source models, such as OpenAI and Lambda, which can be accessed from various marketplaces and offer several advantages, says Bern Elliott, a distinguished analyst at Gartner.

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Lambda@Edge: Why Less is More

Stackery

Lambda@Edge is a compute service that allows you to write JavaScript code that executes in any of the 150+ AWS edge locations making up the Amazon CloudFront content delivery network (CDN) service. Lambda@Edge has some design limitations: Node.JS Lambda@Edge has some design limitations: Node.JS Lambda@Edge.

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