article thumbnail

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

CIO

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

Hotels 351
article thumbnail

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. Redshift is a data warehouse (aka OLAP database) offered by AWS. If you're an ambitious person, do you go work at AWS?

Cloud 351
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Your Guide to Serverless at re:Invent

Stacks on Stacks

Because you shouldn’t try to drink directly from the water hose Your guide to Serverless at re:Invent As you likely know, AWS re:Invent is free and virtual this year. AWS plans to release thousands of hours of content and make hundreds of announcements over the course of the 3-week event. It’s a lot to take in?—?even

article thumbnail

Examining the AWS Serverless Application Repository

Mike Roberts

AWS announced a new service?—?the the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017. The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s

article thumbnail

Examining the AWS Serverless Application Repository

Mike Roberts

AWS announced a new service?—?the the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017. The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s

article thumbnail

Benchmarking AWS Lambda runtimes in 2019 (part I)

The Agile Monkey

Have you ever wondered whether your AWS Lambda could be faster if you used a different runtime? AWS Lambda allows us to execute code in the cloud without needing to provision anything. In the past few years, it has become increasignly well-known thanks to the rise of serverless applications. Rust, Node.js 8.10, C# (.NET

Lambda 66
article thumbnail

Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

Mike Roberts

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my Serverless is a highly dynamic area and two years is a lifetime in this world.