Tableau | Industry trends | Tool strategy | Data engineering S2 E8: Bit: AWS
We're not cloud engineers, but here's why AWS, the multi-cloud and the coming cloud wars matter for anyone in analytics.
- AWS grew out of Amazon's internal philosophy of modularising every component it built, then monetising spare computing capacity at scale through services like S3 and SQS.
- Spot pricing effectively turns server infrastructure into an auction, letting you run non-urgent jobs cheaply whenever capacity is available.
- Multi-cloud setups (as used by Dropbox and Apple) let enterprises keep critical or cheaper-to-run components in-house while delegating the rest, but they require significant maturity to manage.
- Competitive advantage in cloud is shifting from commodity hardware towards custom silicon, with Google's TPUs and Apple's chip design pointing the way.
- Tableau's Embed licence now allows visualisations to be served to external customers without internal logins, but embedding involves many moving parts and Tableau stops being the sole focus.
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| In this episode, we catchup after the summer break, touch on the Tableau Conference in Europe and dive into our topic this week which is AWS (Amazon Web Services).
Show Notes• Tableau conference Europe: https://tc-europe19.tableau.com/watch
• Ireland Drone Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Z6oaTPwcY
• Tableau Embed Playbook: https://tableau.github.io/embedding-playbook/
• Salesforce completes acquisition of Tableau: https://www.tableau.com/about/press-releases/2019/salesforce-completes-acquisition-tableau
• AWS (Amazon Web Services): https://aws.amazon.com/products/?nc2=h_ql_prod
• A Cloud Guru: AWS training and certificationL https://acloud.guru/
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