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Playing online games is not only a mere leisure activity, but a main job for some people. Working as a game player is not something odd or unheard of anymore. Some gamers generate more income than corporate workers. It’s true. For example, Johan Sundstein earns more than $7 million per month just for playing games. What a life! The most recent trend in the online gaming industry is blockchain games. They have received a lot of recognition for utilizing cryptography-based blockchain technologies.

According to Gartner, organizations spent $410.9 billion on cloud services in 2021. In the same year, executives estimated that as much as 30% of their cloud spend was wasted. That’s an aggregate $123.27 billion of waste — money that could go toward innovation, or that could help insulate companies from one of the worst market downturns in years. Organizations face a dilemma: The cloud is essential to modern business, and it’s only getting costlier.

I have been an AWS customer since 2010 and in the early days I, along with just about everyone else on AWS, spent a lot of my time just managing infrastructure. Patching AMIs, configuring load balancers, updating auto-scaling configurations, and so on. It was the sort of thankless task that no one cared about until something went wrong! The very definition of what Werner Vogel often refers to as “undifferentiated heavy-lifting”.

When it comes to multi-cloud, it’s easy to assume that the biggest connectivity challenge facing network professionals would be connecting between different cloud providers. But actually moving data between different geographic instances of the same cloud platform is not as straightforward as you might think.

This blog will brief on vital ways to regain control of Azure cloud cost and to achieve cost optimization. To start with, let us have a short introduction about Azure cost management. As the growth towards cloud adoption is increasing in enterprises, it is getting more difficult for enterprises to manage the cost spent on the cloud across the organization.

With support for Atlassian Server products ending in February 2024, many of you are likely evaluating or planning your migration to Bitbucket Cloud. To help you navigate the migration process, we've put together a list of frequently asked questions that we hear from customers. Each section below has several resource links to help you learn more and start planning your migration.