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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. S3 Storage Undoubtedly, anyone who uses AWS will inevitably encounter S3, one of the platform’s most popular storage services. Storage Class Designed For Retrieval Change Min.

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

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After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. He went with cloud provider Wasabi for those storage needs. “We

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Automate the process to change image backgrounds using Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions

AWS Machine Learning - AI

The workflow consists of the following steps: A user uploads multiple images into an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket via a Streamlit web application. The DynamoDB update triggers an AWS Lambda function, which starts a Step Functions workflow. The Step Functions workflow runs the following steps for each image: 5.1

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High-performance computing on AWS

Xebia

With common compute resources most (serial) computing challenges can be solved. Resources are available on-demand, no ordering/waiting time for the deployment of resources. It dynamically scales resources up and down, ensuring optimal utilization and cost-efficiency. Reduced ongoing costs.

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Learning Lambda — Part 9

Mike Roberts

Scaling and State This is Part 9 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. So far in this series we’ve only been talking about processing a small number of events with Lambda, one after the other. Lambda will horizontally scale precisely when we need it to a massive extent.

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AWS Lambda: The Honcho of the Serverless World

RapidValue

One such service is their serverless computing service , AWS Lambda. For the uninitiated, Lambda is an event-driven serverless computing platform that lets you run code without managing or provisioning servers and involves zero administration. How does AWS Lambda Work. Why use AWS Lambda? Read on to know. zip or jar.

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