Cloud

Alphabet CEO: We see "clear paths to AI monetization". GCHQ Chief Data Scientist: Beware "automation bias"

More than a third of European CXOs are looking to move 25 to 27% of their assets to a sovereign cloud.

"Traditional FinOps cost allocation (e.g. mapping costs of resources back to teams or projects) doesn’t work. You can’t simply allocate the cost of a resource, such as EC2 instance to a tag or label..."

"Valkey will be community-driven without surprise license changes that break trust and disrupt a level open source playing field" says the Linux Foundation.

The kiss of death for open-source Redis? A reasonable commercial decision? The end of a community?

It takes a special kind of stupid to export a LastPass vault and dump it into a public bucket along with a bunch of AWS keys. How do these people win critical government contracts again, please?

Cross-AZ traffic, NAT gateways, elastic IPs, overprovisioning: Hell for your CFO. Jumping ship? Now a little cheaper.

Overprovisioning CPU and memory will keep the lights on, but it is costly. Underprovisioning them risks CPU throttling and out-of-memory kills, which cause applications to perform poorly or even crash."