AWS
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M by NOT Going to the Cloud
·2168 words·11 mins
After Alibaba Cloud’s epic global outage on Double 11, setting industry records, how should we evaluate this incident and what lessons can we learn from it?
Cloud Dark Forest: Exploding Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names
·1275 words·6 mins
The dark forest law has emerged on public cloud: Anyone who knows your S3 object storage bucket name can explode your cloud bill.
Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax?
·5430 words·11 mins
Winter is coming, tech giants are laying off workers entering cost-reduction mode. Can cloud databases, the number one public cloud cash cow, still tell their story? The money you spend on cloud databases for one year is enough to buy several or even dozens of higher-performing servers. Are you paying an IQ tax by using cloud databases?