The answer to “how much does it cost to move a gigabyte of data in AWS?” is, as it turns out, rather complex. We dove deep into AWS documentation (finding a bug here and there, even!) and hounded an untold number of AWS employees to come up with all the different prices and cost paths.
Disaster recovery / business continuity / “backups” are always an interesting subject for very large scale cloud environments. Many of the old data-center strategies that grumpy old sysadmins (that’s me!) relied upon don’t hold water anymore.
In a move that’s equal parts predictable and surprising, AWS has decided to make their Valkey-based services significantly cheaper than their Redis counterparts.
I was in New York this week for the AWS Summit, and while it’s always great to catch up with readers (thanks to those of you who came out to the drinkup!), AWS friends, and others, I found myself rather taken aback by the overwhelming strength behind the Generative AI theme of the entire event. […]
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