Readit NewsThen why are they giving one year of free accounts for developers to the whole country? Remember they have about one million CS graduates every year. Do you see the scale of costs?
I have never had much confidence in Azure as a cloud provider. The vertical integration of all the things for a Microsoft shop was initially very compelling. I was ready to fight that battle. But, this fantasy was quickly ruined by poor execution on Microsoft's part. They were able to convince me to move back to AWS by simply making it difficult to provision compute resources. Their quota system & availability issues are a nightmare to deal with compared to EC2.
At this point I'd rather use GCP over Azure and I have zero seconds of experience with it. The number of things Microsoft gets right in 2025 can be counted single-handedly. The things they do get right are quite good, but everything else tends to be extremely awful.
> Our workload is 24/7 steady. We were already at >90% reservation coverage; there was no idle burst capacity to “right size” away. If we had the kind of bursty compute profile many commenters referenced, the choice would be different.
> Judgment of the General Court of 14 September 2022 — Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google Android) > > The General Court largely confirms the Commission's decision that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
Press release:
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
I even shown one customer that their elaborate cluster costing £10k a month could run on a £10 vps faster and with less headache (they set it up for "big data" thinking 50GB is massive. There was no expectation of the database growing substantially beyond that).
Their response? Investors said it must run on the cloud, because they don't want to lose their money if homegrown setup goes down.
So there is that.
(Except this backfires, because a service running on a RHEL or Debian machine might go on for 5-10 years untouched without any particular issue, security aside, while anything relying on kubernetes or the hyperscaler's million little services needs to be tweaked every 6 months and re-engineered every few years or it will completely stop working.)
What is this referring to? Concerns about capacity if you need to scale up quickly? Or just "political"/marketing considerations about people not being used to being served by a Hetzner server?
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After careful consideration, we have decided to stop accepting new customers for Amazon Glacier (original standalone vault-based service) starting on December 15, 2025. There will be no change to the S3 Glacier storage classes as part of this plan.
Amazon Glacier is a standalone service with its own APIs, that stores data in vaults and is distinct from Amazon S3 and the S3 Glacier storage classes [1]. Your Amazon Glacier data will remain secure and accessible indefinitely. Amazon Glacier will remain fully operational for existing customers but will no longer be offered to new customers (or new accounts for existing customers) via APIs, SDKs, or the AWS Management Console. We will not build any new features or capabilities for this service.
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For customers seeking enhanced archival capabilities or lower costs, we recommend the S3 Glacier storage classes [1] because they deliver the highest performance, most retrieval flexibility, and lowest cost archive storage in the cloud. S3 Glacier storage classes provide a superior customer experience with S3 bucket-based APIs, full AWS Region availability, lower costs, and AWS service integration. You can choose from three optimized storage classes: S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval for immediate access, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval for backup and disaster recovery, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term compliance archives.
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However, exactly the same applies with, say, targeted Facebook ads or Russian troll armies. You don't need any AI for this.
As shown in "Network Propaganda", TV still influences all other media, including print media and social media, so you don't need to watch TV to be influenced.