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Cloud Computing Realities – Part 1

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Managed cloud services, commonly referred to as software as a service (SaaS), offer many benefits to organizations including significantly reduced labor costs for system administration and maintenance, as many of these costs are shifted to the software vendor.

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Canadian CIOs discuss driving a successful hybrid cloud roadmap

CIO Business Intelligence

Cost remains the biggest driver for multicloud. To be successful, CIOs must understand the costs and benefits of such a migration, as well as factors such as life cycle management and the impact on staff. Attendees discussed the cost impact of moving from legacy systems to a hybrid model.

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New Amazon CloudWatch log class to cost-effectively scale your AWS Glue workloads

AWS Big Data

One of the most common questions we get from customers is how to effectively optimize costs on AWS Glue. Over the years, we have built multiple features and tools to help customers manage their AWS Glue costs. For example, AWS Glue Auto Scaling and AWS Glue Flex can help you reduce the compute cost associated with processing your data.

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Multicloud data lake analytics with Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Additionally, we explore the use of Athena workgroups and cost allocation tags to effectively categorize and analyze the costs associated with running analytical queries. Oktank also wants to identify and analyze the costs associated with running analytics queries. Refer to the respective documentation for details.

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Inferencing holds the clues to AI puzzles

CIO Business Intelligence

Yet the calculus may not be so simple when one considers the costs to operate there as well as the fact that GenAI systems sometimes produce outputs that even data engineers, data scientists, and other data-obsessed individuals struggle to understand. Cost concerns aren’t the only reason to conduct inferencing on premises.

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How the GoDaddy data platform achieved over 60% cost reduction and 50% performance boost by adopting Amazon EMR Serverless

AWS Big Data

In this journey, we have identified a structured approach that we refer to as the seven layers of improvement opportunities. For example, Adaptive Query Execution in Spark 3 brings significant performance and cost improvements. This methodology has become our guide in the pursuit of efficiency.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly on Data

Market structure is not simply the number of firms, but the cost structure and economic incentives in the market that follow from the institutions, adjacent government regulations, and available financing. For social media platforms, this was addictive content to increase time spent on platform at any cost to user health.

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