Fear and Loathing on the re:Invent Show Floor of ‘21 with Aaron Booth
Screaming in the Cloud
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Cloud Economics and Sustainability
Running your own data centers is never going to be more climate friendly than picking a hyper scaler. There are definite parallels between cloud economics and sustainability. It costs the same to transfer something in and out of glacier as just to hold for a month or so. If you don't have a work load running, it has no climate impact mostly. And there's also questions of how often does it move? When you move it, lord knows there is nothing more dear than the price of data transfer for data movement.
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