Hello and welcome to this week’s issue of Last Week in AWS. I’m Mike, filling in for Corey while he’s herding yaks in the Himalayas.
From the Community
Jeff Bezos’ famed management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon. Can they survive the Andy Jassy era? – The internal politics of AWS can be interesting at times.
How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales – We’re working on our writeup where we estimate the costs AWS incurred, just as we did last year, but preliminary estimates put the cost at $135 million over two days, about a 30% increase compared to last year.
How we migrated GOV.UK Notify to AWS Elastic Container Service – Government Digital Service – The comments on Hacker News are honestly more interesting than the article itself, including the fact they hired an Amazon UK executive to advise them, resulting in an increased contract between AWS and GDS and their internal PaaS being deprecated in favor of ECS (which, by itself, probably not a bad decision, but even the UK government is asking questions about conflicts-of-interest as a result).
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: A sneaky-sneaky service “launch”
Screaming in the Cloud: Summer Replay – Heresy in the Church of Docker Desktop with Scott Johnston
Screaming in the Cloud: Summer Replay – That Datadog Will Hunt with Dann Berg
Choice Cuts
New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes – For those of you using Capacity Reservations, you’ve now got more flexibility in managing them.
Amazon QuickSight now includes nested filters – Wherein QuickSight continues to ship functionality its competitors had ages ago.
Announcing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMR – Awesome.
Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providers – I honestly didn’t look too much at Verified Permissions when it launched last year, but now that I’m looking closer, it’s actually pretty interesting.
AWS CodeBuild now supports using GitHub Apps to access source repositories – Certainly easier than the Personal Access Tokens. Cool.
AWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS Transit Gateway – Mindboggling that this is only just now supported, but better late than never I suppose.
Announcing Karpenter 1.0 – We’ve got a bunch of clients happily using Karpenter so nice to see it hit the 1.0 milestone.
Visualize enterprise IP address management and planning with CIDR map – I didn’t even realize IPAM had a visualized CIDR map and it’s actually pretty neat.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
