We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to… Article Source https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-july-2024/
We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you’re accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize… Article Source https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-august-2024/
In this post, we highlight key lessons learned while helping a global financial services provider migrate their Apache Hadoop clusters to AWS and best practices that helped reduce their Amazon EMR, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon… Article Source https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-emr-on-ec2-cost-optimization-how-a-global-financial-services-provider-reduced-costs-by-30/
Amazon SageMaker has introduced a new inference optimization toolkit to enhance the performance of generative AI models. This toolkit offers various optimization techniques such as speculative decoding, quantization, and compilation, which can lead to significant cost reductions and improved throughput for models like Llama 3, Mistral, and Mixtral. By utilizing these techniques, users can achieve … Read more
Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 is now allowing customers to export their cost and usage data using the FOCUS 1.0 schema to Amazon S3. This feature is currently in preview. FOCUS is a new open source cloud billing data specification designed to streamline cloud financial management across various sources. Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 includes … Read more
AWS Billing and Cost Management now offers Data Exports for the Cost Optimization Center, allowing users to receive cost optimization recommendations in CSV or Parquet format on a recurring basis. These exports can be customized using basic SQL queries or column/row filters in the console, and can be shared with stakeholders, uploaded to BI dashboards, … Read more
Cybersecurity is crucial for democratic campaigns and elections, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is working with Defend Digital Campaigns (DDC) to provide over 20 cybersecurity services at low or no cost to national party committees and federal candidate campaigns. The collaboration began in 2020 and has expanded to include more services for the 2024 cycle. … Read more
Broadcom Inc.’s Chris Wolf, global head of AI and advanced services for the VMware Cloud Foundation division, emphasizes the company’s focus on private AI as a cornerstone initiative. Wolf discusses the importance of privacy and data control for customers, highlighting the cost-effectiveness and flexibility of running AI services in an enterprise data center. Partnering with … Read more
Google has revealed the potential costs and consequences of allowing third-party app stores like the Epic Games Store to operate within the Google Play Store. The integration process would take 12 to 18 months and cost between $60 and $137 million to develop and maintain the necessary technical infrastructure. Breaking down the costs, Google estimates … Read more
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Google estimates that it would cost over $60 million and take 12 to 18 months to allow third-party app stores like the Epic Games Store to operate within its Google Play Store. This comes after Epic Games won a surprise victory against Google, with a jury ruling that Google Play and Google Play Billing are … Read more