https://tferdinand.net/en/categories/cloud/Recent content in Cloud on Teddy FerdinandHugoen-USTue, 13 Oct 2020 20:18:22 +0000https://tferdinand.net/en/is-it-really-greener-in-the-cloud/Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://tferdinand.net/en/is-it-really-greener-in-the-cloud/<p>“It’s greener on AWS”, I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard this sentence at Amazon conferences.</p> <p>Is this mantra that companies repeat to look cool true?</p> <h2 id="ecology-the-new-spearhead-of-companies">Ecology, the new spearhead of companies</h2> <p>Year after year, companies, and especially large groups, put forward their efforts always to be “greener”. Each company is, of course, more committed than its competitor. I wonder how we can still have problems related to pollution with so much commitment?</p>https://tferdinand.net/en/what-if-we-figured-the-cloud-is-just-another-data-center-like-any-other/Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:54:58 +0000https://tferdinand.net/en/what-if-we-figured-the-cloud-is-just-another-data-center-like-any-other/<p>I work daily on Amazon&rsquo;s cloud infrastructure (AWS for short), and I&rsquo;m thinking about the best way to implement new technical solutions on this platform.</p> <p>Amazon, and the cloud in general, has brought an impressive freedom:</p> <ul> <li>Deploy on tailor-made infrastructures</li> <li>Bringing elasticity to infrastructures</li> <li>Benefits from machines on demand</li> </ul> <p>However, these new approaches to infrastructure have also brought their share of negatives.</p> <p>Previously, to deploy an application in the data center, it was necessary to prepare and properly size its hosting before even starting any deployment, linked to the purchase of suitable hardware, or at least to a resource reservation that had to be amortized over several years.</p>