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Tips from IDC to improve the environmental sustainability of your IT workloads
According to a new IDC InfoBrief report, public cloud data centers were estimated to be 3.8 times more energy-efficient than enterprise data centers in 2023. Learn how moving IT workloads to public cloud data centers can support sustainability strategies for large enterprises.
Moving from on premises to the cloud with AWS delivers significant cost savings, report finds
There is clear momentum to shift compute, storage, and networking functions to the cloud. According to the 2023 Cloud Computing survey released by Foundry (formerly IDG Communications), which surveyed 893 IT decision makers, 66% of respondents expect their cloud spending to increase over the next year. One of the top factors driving these migrations—cited by […]
Five things to consider when choosing your cloud provider
As cloud computing has matured, hyperscale cloud providers have evolved to meet customer needs, with most offering similar features and capabilities. This has led some to believe that cloud providers can be used interchangeably. A recent report by The Futurum Group, a global technology research and advisory firm, notes however that hyperscalers “have unique ways […]
15 billion litres restored: How Amazon Web Services is helping secure Cape Town’s water future
As part of its pledge to be water positive by 2030, AWS recently announced the renewal of its strategic investment in The Nature Conservancy’s Greater Cape Town Water Fund.
Two billion downloads of Terraform AWS Provider shows value of IaC for infrastructure management
Event highlight: If you’re in the area, visit AWS at HashiConf, HashiCorp’s flagship user conference, in San Francisco, California, on October 10 – 12, 2023. HashiCorp Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that lets you define both cloud and on-premises resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. You […]
Why purpose-built artificial intelligence chips may be key to your generative AI strategy
While a great deal of attention and information has recently focused on generative artificial intelligence and the powerful and disruptive possibilities it represents, an important aspect of the technology that bears investigation and understanding is the hardware necessary to facilitate the transformational end results. If your company is training a new machine learning model, or […]
WeTransfer cuts server emissions and grows core business on AWS
The global content distribution platform is proving that an innovative digital business can continue to grow globally, at the same time as cutting carbon emissions that stem from increased reliance on data servers. Can a business scale up its operations and usage while scaling down its carbon emissions? Can it decouple its growth from its […]