Tag: AWS
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[Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider](https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/yellowbrick-cloud-repatriation/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global) – “It has reported an annual saving of $3.9 million by moving its development and testing environments away from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. According to Neil Carson of Yellowbrick, the company had been spending about $6 million per year across the three major cloud…
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Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider – “It has reported an annual saving of $3.9 million by moving its development and testing environments away from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. According to Neil Carson of Yellowbrick, the company had been spending about $6 million per year across the three major cloud…
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Observability: the present and future, with Charity Majors – “The main trend across the industry: consolidation. Companies try to control their bills.”
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How Fidelity’s “chaos buffet” pushed AWS to new Lambda tools – “Fidelity has over 7,700 applications (75% of its estate) in the public cloud. Among these are its trade order management system, which relies heavily on Lambda’s serverless, event-driven compute service.”
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PaaS is Better Than Kubernetes
CaaS Problems Nicky lists the advantages of a real platform over Kubernetes. The platform is Cloud Foundry, and it’s been in development and use for many years, all ready to use. Building platforms I think he goes a little strong on the “sometimes Kubernetes is good for…” part, but that’s mandatory seasoning for such commentary.I…
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New York Times & AWS dispel three mainframe migration myths – What’s most shocking is that the New York Times had a mainframe. But, I guess it’s old enough that of course they do.
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AWS named as a leader again in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure – AWS, VMware, Azure, Oracle, and Nutanix are in the MQ leader’s quadrant for “hybrid cloud.”
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[Platform Engineering as a Service](https://bravenewgeek.com/platform-engineering-as-a-service/) – It’s like DevOps, but you centralize and standardize the platform: ‘This is where Platform Engineering comes in. Rather than having each development team own their entire infrastructure stack, platform engineering provides a centralized, productized approach to infrastructure and developer tools. It’s about creating reusable, self-service platforms that development teams…
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Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity – “the revenue shares for our eight cloud companies in the combined IaaS/PaaS cloud market at nearly $300 billion projected for 2024. AWS has 36% of this combined market, Microsoft 23% and Google 7%. Alibaba, Oracle Tencent Huawei and IBM combine for around 14% of the…
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Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds – Oracle runs its stack in the various clouds.
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Cloud Foundry in Action: Real Customers Stories from Cloud Foundry Day – ”We run a tremendous number of applications on top of Cloud Foundry. The ones that really impress me might surprise some people. It’s not just Black Friday sales but also the Amazon Prime events. When these events kick off, there’s an incredible surge…
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Why Supercloud Architectures Could Upend Cloud Computing – Or Not | IDC Blog – ”IDC’s March 2024 Cloud Pulse Survey (n = 1,350) shows that 74% of cloud buyers have multicloud strategies. It’s no longer a big deal to use multiple clouds.”
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With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS? – “AWS’s differentiation historically has been in infrastructure. Rather than compete in areas like enterprise software suites, it can double down on custom silicon GPUs as an NVIDIA alternative. AWS could bring its “go build it” cloud strategy to genAI to help customers home in on use cases…
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AWS CISO: In AI gold rush, folks forget application security – “the places where we’re seeing the security gaps first are actually at the application layer”
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Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It – Hmm, hopefully we’ll see some nuanced corrections in all them news outlets…
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Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals – Defending yourself against the three public clouds.
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IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx – If it works, it lets enterprises build up huge, custom trained models, and it has enough governance controls, it’d be a big deal for IBM. They key things learned from ChatGPT is that it has to be super easy, frictionless to get started with. That’s…
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Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a Monolith after All – The New Stack – At this point, who knows anymore?
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Maximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps – “Among current users, 56% report that spending on public cloud was significantly over budget (by 30% or more) or somewhat over (by 10%-30%) in 2022, compared with 45% of respondents saying the same in 2021. Multiple factors cause organizations to overshoot their budgets for public cloud services…
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IT is asked to do more, and sometimes with more budget!
Updates to the VMware app runtimes If you’re into platform engineering, the two VMware platforms have some announcements today that you’ll be interested in: Tanzu Application Platform v1.5 – There’s faster ways to get it installed, security improvements, tighter integration with Spring Boot apps, and a lot more. Rita gives some highlights: “Enhanced IDE support…
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