Good Morning!
I’m at Vol de Nuit hosting a drinkup tomorrow evening starting at 6PM; if you’re in NYC please–let me buy you a drink. Everyone’s welcome.
From the Community
Stephen O’Grady ponders some AI conundrums.
It’s a bit weird when AWS buys a company, but this is just absurd. They acquired 5(!) co-founders and several execs, leaving the company’s shattered husk to amble on like some kind of corporate zombie.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Amazon Kindle Fire Steven
Screaming in the Cloud: Helping Each Other and Growing Together with Matt Coulter
Choice Cuts
AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – This is a great feature. Unfortunately it comes with a bunch of constraints (no persistent home directory, no upload / download native tooling) but it’ll help more than it hinders.
AWS Control Tower introduces an API to discover landing zone operations – Control Tower continues its absolutely glacial rollout of a fully featured API. At this rate I’ll be able to deploy it to an org from the CLI right around the time I retire.
AWS Direct Connect announces native 400 Gbps Dedicated Connections at select locations – That’s just ridiculous speed. At a line rate of 400 gigabytes every 8 seconds, you can do the math yourself as to just how fiendishly expensive this can be, but for the folks who need it it’s a godsend.
New MAP Incentives to Accelerate Migration and Modernization – Yup, you’ve still gotta apply tags to resources you want MAP credits for. Why would they streamline something customers find actively annoying?
Managing the history of the NFL – Ah, the storied history of the NFL, from "Deflategate" to "covering up brain injuries leading to severe player health issues" to the truly astonishing number of domestic violence incidents, this is totally where I’d expect a cloud provider to tell a marketing story.
Announcing initial services available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, backed by the full power of AWS – Good news, they’ll have Brandenberg NAT Gateways at launch.
How The New York Stock Exchange built its real-time market data platform on AWS – This is a super interesting article about a real-world use case that for some reason was taken down. Fear not, the link goes to a PDF’d version of the site because I’ve gotten very tired of writing commentary like this only to find later that AWS attempted to memory-hole an article that they published after I’d put the work in.
Tools
I like that this Visual Subnet Calculator got an AWS mode.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
