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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

In this article, we are going to compare three of the most popular cloud providers, AWS vs. Azure vs. DigitalOcean for their database hosting costs for MongoDB® database to help you decide which cloud is best for your business. We compare AWS vs. Azure vs. DigitalOcean using the below instance types: AWS.

Azure

Azure AWS Database Latency

Dynatrace Cost & Carbon Optimization certified for accuracy and transparency

Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The explosion of AI models shines a new spotlight on the issue, with a recent study showing that using AI to generate an image takes as much energy as a full smartphone charge. The certification focuses on accuracy and transparency in calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises host instances.

Energy

Energy Analytics Traffic Cloud

Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If you use AWS cloud services to build and run your applications, you may be familiar with the AWS Well-Architected framework. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

AWS

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud

AWS re:Invent 2023 guide: Generative AI takes a front seat

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference, generative AI is a centerpiece. In this AWS re:Invent 2023 guide, we explore the role of generative AI in the issues organizations face as they move to the cloud: IT automation, cloud migration and digital transformation, application security, and more.

AWS

AWS Artificial Intelligence Cloud Analytics

What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

The advanced analytics provided by Greenplum is being used across many verticals, including finance, manufacturing, automotive, government, energy, education, retail, and so on, to address a wide variety of problems. Let’s walk through the top use cases for Greenplum: Analytics.

Big Data

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source

Amazon 2022 Sustainability Report?—?18 AWS Regions are 100% renewable

Adrian Cockcroft

JULY 18, 2023

Amazon 2022 Sustainability Report — 19 AWS Regions are 100% renewable Amazon released their 2022 sustainability report which includes an updated list of renewable AWS regions. For 2021 there were 12 AWS regions that were “over 95% renewable”. The Power Usage Efficiency of datacenters (how much energy is used for cooling etc.)

AWS

AWS Energy Azure Google

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure. It doesn't lessen the impact or importance of OpenConnect; but, it grew out of a very real impasse with a very large ISP. Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped.

Internet

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence

Don’t follow the sun: Scheduling compute workloads to chase green energy can be counter-productive

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 7, 2023

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. AWS calls this an Insufficient Capacity Exception (ICE) and works very hard to avoid it.

Energy

Energy AWS Cloud Azure

Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. You must bring your laptop to participate.

AWS

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices

Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage

Web Development Trends in 2023

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There are several popular cloud-based platforms for web development and deployment, such as AWS , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform. Providing a dark mode option can help to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.Another use of dark mode standardization is energy savings.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website

Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

Energy

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System

Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Let’s start by assuming that you have figured out a way to estimate the energy consumption and carbon footprint for a workload that is sensitive enough to register changes in the way you run the workload. The first thing to understand is that doing things consumes time and energy and has a carbon footprint of its own.

Energy

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation

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