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Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps

DevOps.com

A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is highly sticky and makes future application improvements and migrations much harder.

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Spend Smarter, Not More: A Guide to AWS Storage Cost Optimization

Xebia

Introduction With an ever-expanding digital universe, data storage has become a crucial aspect of every organization’s IT strategy. The cloud, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS), has made storing vast amounts of data more uncomplicated than ever before. The following table gives you an overview of AWS storage costs.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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From “Secondary Storage” To Just “Storage”: A Tale of Lambdas, LZ4, and Garbage Collection

Honeycomb

When we introduced Secondary Storage two years ago, it was a deliberate compromise between economy and performance. Compared to Honeycomb’s primary NVMe storage attached to dedicated servers, secondary storage let customers keep more data for less money. Enter AWS Lambda. Today things look very different.

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ECS Vs. EC2 Vs. S3 Vs. Lambda: The Ultimate Comparison

CloudZero

AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Lambda, and AWS Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are some of the most critical services you should become familiar with. There are over 200 fully-featured services within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem.

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Multi-cloud connection: Transfer files between Amazon S3, Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage using SFTP Gateway

Thorn Tech

What is multi-cloud connection and why is it important? Sometimes you and your users need to connect to more than one cloud storage location.

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AWS ECS vs. AWS Lambda: Top 5 Main Differences

Dzone - DevOps

Cloud computing has revolutionized the software industry in the last 10 years. 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.

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