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How Pick n Pay’s migration to the cloud is paying off

CIO

Pick n Pay’s bold plan to modernize infrastructure and drive efficiency is beginning to pay dividends as its migration to AWS was successfully completed last year, signaling the digital ambitions of this retail giant. We didn’t want to invest in a data center that would commit us to another five-year depreciation cycle.

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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. That seems kind of bad for AWS?

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2022 Cloud Salary Survey

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

But it’s also worth noting that AWS launched in 2002, roughly 20 years ago. There’s no standardized naming system, so a programming lead at one company might be an architect or even a CTO at another. Consultants also did somewhat poorly, with an average salary of $129,000. You’re not reliant on your own company’s data center.

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