Not the beer... Making clouds (I may work for AWS, but everything here is my own and does not represent the views, opinions, etc. of AWS).
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Start your #AWSreInvent off with a good foundation in storage performance. Grab a coffee and join Jody and me as we talk through how to design and optimize your workloads on EBS! STG319, today @ 9am! registration.awsevents.com/f…
If you're looking for something for your Saturday morning coffee reading queue, this is a fun read that challenges you to think about the tension between velocity and simplicity, even in your own systems--not just those at the scale of S3.
Enjoy!
On #PiDay (Amazon S3's 19th birthday), @andywarfield takes us through S3's evolution from simple object store to sophisticated data platform. A fascinating look at how customer feedback shapes our services and how we maintain simplicity at massive scale. allthingsdistributed.com/202…
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New blog post, with my personal take on our launch of Amazon Aurora DSQL: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12/0…
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Peter DeSantis' Monday Night Live has been an #AWSreInvent conference favorite for a while. His deep dive into our @awscloud engineering is a great way to start this week of learning.
I enjoyed sharing my personal keynote notes last year and I’ll continue doing the same this week—here’s what stood out to me from Peter’s talk:
EBS celebrated it's 16th birthday earlier this week and next week I'll celebrate my 13th anniversary at AWS. I took some time to reflect on our journey from humble beginnings to what we are today. I hope you enjoy! allthingsdistributed.com/202…
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Starting yesterday evening, AWS customers can recover their EC2 Instances affected by the CrowdStrike event at scale and in a fully automated way.
If you're still stuck and running on AWS, you should try it!
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May is mental health awareness month. Can we all rally around making it less of a stigma and get to the root cause of our violence problems?
If you know someone hurting, reach out to them, support them, and encourage them to get help. We're in this together. 9/9
Reviving an old thread, but finally we're starting to see progress from the FAA. Hopefully they won't pervert this into another gotcha, but happy that pilots struggling with mental health issues can get treated without impacting their career.
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Ah #reinvent...
If anyone is in Vegas this week, let's meet up. I'm thinking maybe some offices hours at a watering hole on Wednesday.
It's less than two weeks to #reinvent2023. I've got one talk on Monday (STG331), but more importantly, I'm interested in meeting our customers to talk about how they're using AWS storage services (and specifically EBS), and how we can do better.
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I think the mistake people make is thinking that the dragon won't eat them, and they'll be able to do other things after writing their own database. That, mostly, turns out to be wrong.
It's 97 days until #reinvent. It's dark. The session catalog is up. I'm wearing sunglasses.
STG331.
Hit it.
hub.reinvent.awsevents.com/a…
EBS launched on 2008-08-20. Next year it can drive. Amazing how time flies.
This month, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is celebrating 15 years of pushing boundaries to deliver reliable, high-performance block storage for our customers.
I had a chance to celebrate with some Amazon EBS team members, including one engineer who worked on the original code with several others when EBS launched in 2008. Shout out to @MarcJBrooker! Marc spent his first two weeks on the job reviewing code for the new service.
The team and I took a trip back in time to mark the 15-year milestone, remembering animated discussions with our colleague Matt Garman, who was the first product manager at @awscloud and defined the original customer experience for EBS.
We recalled how, at one point, we debated if buying two racks of servers for EBS was too much. Little did we know at the time just how big this was going to be. Fast forward to today. EBS handles more than 100 trillion input/output operations every day!
Over the years, customers have pushed us in many new directions that we couldn't have imagined. What hasn't changed is how carefully we listen to deliver what they need.
There are so many great stories about building EBS and the origins of the cloud. You can hear the history directly from Matt at AWS Storage Day.➡️
pages.awscloud.com/NAMER-fie…
ALT Adam Selipsky takes a picture with members of the Amazon Elastic Block Store team in front of a sign that reads, cheers to 15 years.
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Happy Storage Day and happy birthday EBS! 🥳Join me today at 1:40pm PT for a chat with Matt Garman about those early days and how we've evolved the service over the last 15 years to keep up with our customers (hint: we have a little more than 2 racks now 😉)
This month, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is celebrating 15 years of pushing boundaries to deliver reliable, high-performance block storage for our customers.
I had a chance to celebrate with some Amazon EBS team members, including one engineer who worked on the original code with several others when EBS launched in 2008. Shout out to @MarcJBrooker! Marc spent his first two weeks on the job reviewing code for the new service.
The team and I took a trip back in time to mark the 15-year milestone, remembering animated discussions with our colleague Matt Garman, who was the first product manager at @awscloud and defined the original customer experience for EBS.
We recalled how, at one point, we debated if buying two racks of servers for EBS was too much. Little did we know at the time just how big this was going to be. Fast forward to today. EBS handles more than 100 trillion input/output operations every day!
Over the years, customers have pushed us in many new directions that we couldn't have imagined. What hasn't changed is how carefully we listen to deliver what they need.
There are so many great stories about building EBS and the origins of the cloud. You can hear the history directly from Matt at AWS Storage Day.➡️
pages.awscloud.com/NAMER-fie…
ALT Adam Selipsky takes a picture with members of the Amazon Elastic Block Store team in front of a sign that reads, cheers to 15 years.
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"Today we are happy to announce Snapchange, a new open source project to make snapshot-based fuzzing much easier. Snapchange enables a target binary to be fuzzed with minimal modifications, providing useful introspection that aids in fuzzing." aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensou…
Dang. #effcancer
Coffee with @camismusings and me talking about moving applications into EBS (STG220). #reInvent2022
This is pretty cool! While most storage devices only guarantee individual sectors, with EBS on nitro instances and local instance store on i4i, we support up to 16k I/Os. It was great working with RDS to enable this performance enhancement, too.
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