San Antonio College Library

"The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemini suborbital and Earth orbital missions, to the lunar landings, and thence to the first reusable winged crewed spaceplane that the United States operated for three decades. Today the United States is the major partner in a massive orbital facility -...

"The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, the well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a major source of rapidly rising costs in service sectors...

The course provides a basic overview of AWS Billing and Cost Management services and dashboards. Different AWS cost tools, such as Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets, are covered in this introduction. A step-by-step review of how to set up budget alerts is also presented. Duration: 12 minutes.--Publisher.

"Lays bare the ways in which the sophisticated and self-conscious 'class coercion' designed by and for business leaders passed beyond meticulous management of the workplace to 'manipulating people's off-the-job peceptions and actions. Exposes the mythology of 'consumer sovereignty' and 'free markets' and sketches a humane alternaive to domination by 'corporate overlords' and the state power to which they are closely linked." [Noam Chomsky. Back cover]....

In this course you will learn why commitment-based purchase options are important. You'll also learn about Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Amazon CloudFront security savings bundles. Finally, you'll learn how to implement a process for managing commitment-based purchase options.--Publisher.

In this course you will learn why it's important for your organization to be cost aware when you build in the AWS Cloud. You will gain an overview of AWS Well-Architected (AWS WA), and the Well-Architected cost optimization pillar.--Publisher.

In this course you will learn why it is important to budget and forecast your cloud costs. You will review methods for cloud spend forecasting and techniques to help you improve the predictability of your spend. Finally, you will learn how to establish a cloud budgeting and forecasting process.--Publisher.

In this course you will learn why it’s important to estimate cloud costs. You will also learn how to estimate cloud workload costs. You will learn to establish a cloud cost estimation process using a prescriptive cost estimation framework. Finally, you will learn options available for you when estimating the cost of large cloud migrations.--Publisher.