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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 Chinese competitor Huawei also has invested $400 million in cloud infrastructure for its services in Saudi Arabia.

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High-performance computing on AWS

Xebia

How does High-Performance Computing on AWS differ from regular computing? No ageing infrastructure. HPC services on AWS Compute Technically you could design and build your own HPC cluster on AWS, it will work but you will spend time on plumbing and undifferentiated heavy lifting. Why HPC and cloud are a good fit?

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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

CIO

Storage has emerged in 2022 as a strategic asset that the C-suite, not just the CIO, can no longer overlook. Enterprise storage can be used to improve your company’s cybersecurity, accelerate digital transformation, and reduce costs, while improving application and workload service levels. What should you do?

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

This strategy alone — achieved with the DIY approach — was responsible for saving $300,000 when his team dug into expenses surrounding Google Cloud Platform log storage, resulting in his team moving the logs to a lower tier of cloud storage and rightsizing the data they retain to adhere to retention requirements.

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AWS S3 Integration with Snowflake

Perficient

These days, most businesses use cloud storage to store data that is recoverable, quickly available, and safe. Importance of Cloud Storage : Anyone has the ability to save digital data and access it from anywhere, thanks to cloud services for the same. Security is the most crucial component of data storage.

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Three Security Highlights For Terraform on AWS

Xebia

So, you want to build your infrastructure in AWS and use Terraform for your Infrastructure as Code? HashiCorp Terraform & AWS. If you have read our previous blogs on secure deployment, then you know by now that you can best deploy infrastructure using a secure CI/CD pipeline. And you want to do it securely?

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AWS ECS vs. AWS Lambda: Top 5 Main Differences

Dzone - DevOps

Today, most organizations prefer to host applications and services on the cloud due to ease of deployment, high security, scalability, and cheap maintenance costs over on-premise infrastructure. In 2006, Amazon launched its cloud services platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS) , one of the leading cloud providers to date.

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