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Does using the cloud make your business sustainable? Research suggests that it’s a greener choice.
By moving to the cloud, the e-commerce giant Etsy slashed its energy consumption by 13% (from 7330 MWh in 2018 to 6376 MWh in 2019), saving enough energy to power 450 households for a month.(1) However, migrating to the cloud doesn’t guarantee anything if you neglect to optimize your resource utilization over the long term.
Replacing human folly for algorithmic efficiency means faster and better service and a "perfect cheeseburger" every time. So what can you expect when automated solutions start making decisions about your cloud infrastructure? Well, with the tasks it can do, automation certainly buys you time to do more interesting things than micromanaging your cloud infrastructure.
I wrote a guide to help you understand the impact of automation on your job and whether it will really put your DevOps, cloud engineer, or solutions architect job at risk anytime soon.
The pay-per-use model of the public cloud seemed too good to be true. And you probably quickly caught onto its catch: analyzing and predicting your cloud costs is like driving blindfolded hoping that the street traffic would stay the same.
A solid cloud cost management strategy and tooling solves this problem – but only partially. Knowing what your costs are and where your costs come from isn’t going to reduce them magically.