AWS for Solutions Architects - Third Edition

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Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing

Technology is transforming the world, yet a substantial portion of enterprise IT budgets continues to be allocated toward maintaining existing infrastructure. According to Mechanical Orchard, 60–80% of IT budgets are recurrent costs used to “keep the lights on” in the IT department (https://www.mechanical-orchard.com/insights/1-14-trillion-to-keep-the-lights-on-legacys-drag-on-productivity). In data centers, servers are at the core of any IT workload and consume most of the IT effort and budget. To run any application, you need computing. Even though the cloud brings the concept of serverless computing, there are still servers in the background managed by cloud vendors. Further, these computing costs ...