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Cloud costs and strategy
154 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 150 with a note, 82 in a Weekly Thing.
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- aws.amazon.com 10, medium.com 8, cloud.google.com 5, gigaom.com 4, tbray.org 4
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2023
- Microsoft Ignite 2023 Book of News
- Scaling Kafka to Support PayPal’s Data Growth | PayPal Technology Blog
- Northern Virginia's Data Center Industry Is Booming
- Cloud exit pays off in performance too
- The Amazon Growth Story Is More Than AWS | Deepwater Asset Management
- Amazon 2022 Shareholder Letter (PDF)
- How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
- We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
- Amazon Q4 2022 Financials
2022
- Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase
- The Distributed Computing Manifesto
- Istio sails into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- A look inside our sixth generation of server hardware
- AWS costs every programmer should know
- Lock-in and Multi-Cloud
- Retailers unwrap a successful 2021 holiday season with Google’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday program
- Examining the covidtests.gov architecture
2021
- Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled
- Cloud Cost as Just Another Metric
- Cloudflare’s Disruption
- Mistakes I've Made in AWS
- Compute North | Cryptocurrency Mining Colocation
- The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox
- AWS Shield threat landscape review: 2020 year-in-review
- Amazon Q1 2021
- Shifting cost optimisation left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights
- Women in leadership: Why Diversity, Equity and Inclusion matters at Google Cloud
2020
- AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020 — AWS News
- Amp It Up! | Frank Slootman
- Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably | Innovation Stories
- Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You | by Steve Yegge | Aug, 2020
- What a typical 100% Serverless Architecture looks like in AWS!
2019
- Amazon’s Race To Build A Fast Delivery Network: “The Human Cost Of This Is Too Much”
- Salesforce announces it’s moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure
- Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database
- Multi Cloud Happens But Not Necessarily By Design
- Cloudflare S-1
- An update on Sunday’s service disruption
- Announcing Snowflake on Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech
- Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
- The Good and the Bad of Google Cloud Run
- Apple spends more than $30 million a month on Amazon Web Services
- LockInCost
- ongoing by Tim Bray · SF-5: Serverless Bills?
2018
- Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration - Windows Experience BlogWindows Experience Blog
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights – Fast, Interactive Log Analytics
- Amazon FSx for Lustre
- IBM’s Old Playbook
- Parsing logs 230x faster with Rust
- Building With Workers KV, a Fast Distributed Key-Value Store
- Troy Hunt: Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions
- Auth0 Architecture: Running In Multiple Cloud Providers And Regions
- Beyond Interactive: Notebook Innovation at Netflix – Netflix TechBlog
- Target shifts cloud-computing business to Alphabet's Google
- Data Transfer Project
- Walmart establishes strategic partnership with Microsoft to further accelerate digital innovation in retail
- Google Cloud Platform - The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It's Mostly Good)
- Currents: A quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud
- The Death of Supply Chain Management
- Google Cloud Platform Blog: Introducing QUIC support for HTTPS load balancing
- Microsoft Just Put a Data Center on the Bottom of the Ocean
- Introducing sole-tenant nodes for Google Compute Engine — when sharing isn’t an option
- Follow the CAPEX: Separating the Clowns from the Clouds
- Xero reveals the impact of mammoth Amazon Web Services migration - Cloud - CRN Australia
- Leveraging Log Streaming to Build the Best Dashboards, Ever
- Jeff Bezos 2018 Letter to Shareholders
- Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year
- Salesforce agrees to buy Mulesoft in $6.5 billion deal
- How Atlassian moved Jira and Confluence users to Amazon Web Services, and what it learned along the way
- Teevity - Cloud costs analytics - Home
- The Data Warehouse Built for the Cloud
- Amazon Go and the Future
- The hidden costs of serverless
- Rightsizing Infrastructure Can Cut Costs 36% – AWS Enterprise Collection
- How cloud speed helps SQL Server DBAs | Blog
2017
- Real-life AWS cost optimization strategy – Teads Engineering
- The Rising Stakes in SaaS
- Your future cloud is hybrid, and so is Azure —Microsoft Azure Blog
- Going Multi-Cloud with AWS and GCP: Lessons Learned at Scale
- Story of a successful migration to Google Cloud Platform
- AWS CloudFormation Supports Multiple Account and Region Provisioning with StackSet
- Niantic Pokémon GO Fest Chicago Update
- Serverless Hosting Comparison
- Cloud and Finance – Lessons learned | Expedia Engineering Blog
- DigitalGlobe moves to the cloud with AWS Snowmobile | DigitalGlobe Blog
- Economies of Density in E-Commerce: A Study of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network
- Vapor
- Oracle effectively doubles licence fees to run its stuff in AWS
2016
- HOLY COW. Amazon RDS SQL Server Just Changed Everything.
- Enterprise DC/OS 1.7 steps ups support for security, stateful services and more
- Open source DC/OS
- ELK on ARK
- Arq 5 gets a big speed boost
- Amazon 2015 Letter to Shareholders
- Amazon cloud has 1 million users and is near $10 billion in annual sales —Ars Technica
- Financial services firm processes 25 billion stock market events per hour with Google Cloud Bigtable
- The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire
- What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services
- Google's Transition from Single Datacenter, to Failover, to a Native Multihomed Architecture
- Sports Authority handles 2,000 transactions per second with Google Cloud Platform
- What it looks like to process 3.5 million books in Google’s cloud
- Netflix finishes its massive migration to the Amazon cloud
- 3scale API Management Platform
- How we’re putting the Microsoft Cloud to work for the public good
- A Dispatch from Cloud City – State of the Union 2016
- Radware
- Scheduled Reserved Instances
- In the Works – AWS Region in Canada
- Sumo Logic is ISO 27001 and CSA Star Certified
2015
- Google Cloud Platform for AWS Professionals - Cloud Platform — Google Cloud Platform
- Sumo Logic Sets the Bar for Security in the Cloud with ISO 27001 Certification
- Amazon Web Services versus Microsoft Azure, Google, Oracle
- Liaison Technologies Transforms Cloud-based Integration and Data Management on MapR
- Amazon Web Services is a $5 billion business, and it’s growing 50% a year
- A Procurement Manager's Guide to Negotiating With Amazon Web Services, 2014
- Amazon Web Services tops list of most reliable public clouds
2014
2013
- The reactive manifesto
- Amazon Redshift - What You Need To Know
- Salesforce Architecture - How they Handle 1.3 Billion Transactions a Day
- Morgan & Claypool Publishers - Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture - 8(3):1 - Abstract
- Cloud server review and comparison: Amazon AWS EC2 vs Linode vs DigitalOcean
- DigitalOcean