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If you’re using Azure SQL Database for your applications or business, you’ve probably noticed that while the service is amazing for scalability and management, it can get expensive pretty fast. That’s where Azure SQL reservations come in. It is an awesome way to save money. In this blog, we’re going to break down what Azure SQL reservations are, how they work, and why you might want to consider them for your organization. Let’s dive in, shall we?

Lambda’s Event-Source Mapping (ESM) has been a game-changer for Lambda users. It gives users an easy and cost-efficient way to process events from Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon MQ and more. It handles all the complexities around polling, including scaling the no. of pollers. And there’s no charge for this invisible layer of infrastructure!

Kubernetes is one of the most significant advances in cloud computing since the public cloud. It provides an open-source, highly scalable, and cloud-native platform for orchestrating containerized applications. More organizations now use Kubernetes to deploy, network, scale, and manage containers at scale. In addition, the Kubernetes architecture empowers them to deploy containerized applications swiftly across various platforms, support distributed systems, and scale operations to meet demands quickly.

In June 2024, Amazon hit an astounding $2 trillion valuation, joining the elite ranks of companies like Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia. This growth was largely driven by the success of its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which holds one-third of the global cloud market share. That equals the combined market share of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud! But who are AWS’s biggest contributors to this success?

Economically speaking, scale-ups deliver far greater value than their size suggests. Whilst they make up just 1% of SME firms, the ‘sub-sector’ accounts for 8% of SME employment and 22% of SME turnover. Nearly 1 million people are employed in scale-up companies and these businesses have a combined turnover of almost £500 billion. Scotland has just over 2,100 scale-ups, with a pipeline of another 1,000. The current turnover of these organisations totals just over £41bn.