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AWS for Solutions Architects - Third Edition
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AWS for Solutions Architects - Third Edition

by Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav, Dhiraj Thakur
July 2025
Intermediate to advanced
788 pages
22h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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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 ...

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