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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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:
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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!
repost.aws/en/knowledge-cent…
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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.
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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…
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A great Saturday in Miami as @Charles_Leclerc and @Carlossainz55 head the field!
➡️ bit.ly/MiamiGP2022_Saturday
#essereFerrari 🔴 #MiamiGP
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We now have this packaged in Amazon Linux 2. Comes with script that will try to apply the hotpatch to running JDK8 and JDK11 JVMs on install, plus a cron job that looks every 30 min.
yum install log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch
Not a substitute for updating log4j.
The Corretto team at AWS has been working on a mechanism to hotpatch the log4j RCE from CVE-2021-44228.
github.com/corretto/hotpatch…
Use at your own risk. Thanks to @volker_simonis for spending days, nights, and the weekend to harden this, aalong with the rest of the team.
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since everyone is talking about log4j/supply chains
an experiment years ago i calculated 1-bit offset utf8 strings of the top few hundred npm packages and registered packages under them
they received thousands of hits per week from machines trying to download and execute them
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New – #AWS Outposts Servers in Two Form Factors - aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new… - If you are at re:Invent be sure to go take a look and participate in the Selfie Challenge (hashtag and other details in the blog post). #reinvent2021
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New AWS News post by @channyun:
Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes with Amazon EC2 R5b Instances Are Now Generally Available
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ama…
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Unpopular opinion: the biggest impediment to feature velocity is not bad code or outdated tools. It’s organizational coupling at the architecture level, where launching any feature requires multiple teams to contribute, especially if those teams are far apart organizationally.
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The world's oldest living person was alive when the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk and when the first helicopter flew on Mars.
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Tonight @IlliniMBB trailed by 15 at the half against Northwestern but won by 25.
They are the only Division I team in the last 25 seasons to trail by 15+ points at halftime yet win by 20 or more.
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🤯 @IlliniMBB was down 15 at the half and then went on to outscore Northwestern 53-13 in the second half 🤯
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In the Works – 3 More #AWS Local Zones in 2020, and 12 More in 2021 - aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-…