Platforms

The Basics Cloud providers have taken the tech world by storm over the past several years. Amazon led the way with cloud computing in 2006 when it launched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The cloud, however, was mentioned as early as 1998. The Flexera state of the cloud report provides a snapshot of the current state of cloud computing. The Flexera report is compiled once a year and contains insights about how companies are using cloud providers, along with adoption rates....

The Basics Learn Amazon Athena basics. Amazon Athena is meant for querying copious amounts of data on the cheap. It’s a straightforward service based on Presto with some interesting integrations. The Presto Foundation calls Amazon Athena and Amazon EMR Presto Cloud on their website. It’s not dirt cheap to use Amazon Athena, but it is convenient. It costs $5.00 per TB of data scanned. It’s possible to pay a third of that with compression....