Welcome to this week’s issue of Last Week in AWS, coming from me, Mike Julian, Corey’s ~wrangler~ cofounder at The Duckbill Group.
Corey’s out on vacation for the next couple months so I’ll be filling in!
From the Community
Amazon’s Exabyte-Scale Migration from Apache Spark to Ray on Amazon EC2 – What I love about this, aside from my general frustration with all-things-Spark, is just how detailed the writeup is. AWS and Amazon Retail are generally worlds apart, so this is more akin to AWS doing a case study of a customer–except it’s way more behind-the-scenes than I would have expected.
Reversing AWS IAM unique IDs – A prototype neat decoder ring for AWS unique IDs (is that what they’re actually called by AWS?)
Revealing the Inner Structure of AWS Session Tokens – This is really neat stuff: a security researcher Tal Be’ery has figured out how to decode STS tokens.
NO_WILDCARD: How I discovered the Organization ID of any AWS Account – Spoiler: it’s already been fixed by AWS. Cool read, though.
Amazon’s Graviton Has Evolved Into A Formidable CPU Contender: Graviton1 To Graviton4 Benchmarks Review – Phoronix – I do love the performance from Graviton, so I’m glad someone did this benchmarking of all the Graviton generations.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: I’m Gone Like QLDB
Screaming in the Cloud: Generating AI Laughs with Daniel Feldman
Screaming in the Cloud: Piledriving the GenAI Grift with Nikhil Suresh
Choice Cuts
Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet Registry – I’m a little surprised this wasn’t already a feature, but hey, better late than never. I do find the idea of using your own IP blocks for AWS networks to be interesting, but in this day and age, strikes me as a sort of code smell for antiquated architecture.
AWS Cost Categories now supports “Billing Entity” dimension – Cost Categories is seemingly little-known amongst customers, as I rarely run across anyone using it. Which is sort of a shame, since it’s pretty neat and useful. This is a minor capability addition, but honestly, it’s really more of an excuse for me to talk about how underappreciated Cost Categories is.
Enhance database performance with Amazon RDS dedicated log volumes – This sounds pretty great. Nice work, RDS.
QLDB deprecation–more on the way? – Last week saw the announcement of QLDB being deprecated and this particular article was posted right before. Now, we’ve got three new articles in the AWS blog:
- Transition from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service
- How to migrate your AWS CodeCommit repository to another Git provider
- How to migrate from AWS Cloud9 to AWS IDE Toolkits or AWS Cloudshell.
Will we see a deprecation announcement for CloudSearch, CodeCommit, and Cloud9 this week? 🤔
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
