Another selection of curated articles I have been reading over the past week.
AWS Addressing Europes Digital Sovereignty Needs
In total, AWS’s planned investment is estimated to contribute €17.2 billion to Germany’s total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through 2040, and support an average 2,800 full-time equivalent jobs in local German businesses each year.
A Netflix Masterclass in Network Troubleshooting
As network engineers, our initial reaction when the network is blamed is typically, “No, it can’t be the network,” and our task is to prove it.
Total Recall, Microsoft Style. Is this even legal? – asking for a friend…
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/windows_recall/?td=rt-3a
Windows takes a snapshot of a user’s active screen every few seconds and dumps it to disk.
Zeropoint – The best Swedish startup since Abba
The concept is this: losslessly compress data just before it enters RAM, and decompress it afterwards, effectively widening the memory channel by 50% or more just by adding one small piece to the chip.
Azure Data Transfer Pricing Update – A positive one.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/update-on-interavailability-zone-data-transfer-pricing/
We are announcing that Azure will not charge for the data transfer across availability zones regardless of using private or public IPs on your Azure resources.