Good Morning!
I went to the NY Summit last week and uh… well, I wrote down some of my thoughts. If this is a preview of what re:Invent is going to look like, I suggest most of you stay home.
From the Community
Amazon at 30: what next for ‘The Everything Company’?
Amazon claimed both that it runs on 100% clean power, and that they’re the largest purchaser of clean power credits in the world. Both of those things can’t be true.
Slashing our AWS Bill at Levels.fyi is interesting; you don’t usually see CloudFront as the single biggest service spend…
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Glacial APIs
Screaming in the Cloud: Summer Replay – An Enterprise Level View of Cloud Architecture with Levi McCormick
Screaming in the Cloud: Summer Replay – Building and Maintaining Cultures of Innovation with Francessca Vasquez
Screaming in the Cloud: Summer Replay – Ironing out the BGP Ruffles with Ivan Pepelnjak
Choice Cuts
Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs now available in 7 additional AWS Regions – Cool. Hey listen, with these seven additional regions supporting it, how many regions in total now support the WebSocket API? I’ll wait, because there’s no central point to get that information.
Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 now generally available – This is a big deal, as Graviton4 is now GA 8 months after being announced at re:Invent. Sure woulda been nice for this to have been mentioned on stage at the NY Summit.
Announcing the next generation of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems – I like this, but I really want to use it for small amounts of data as I do now with EFS. Today it’s still too expensive for that to really make sense.
Announcing AWS App Studio preview – The Second Coming of Honeycode–because the thing that doomed the first one was apparently a lack of GenAI.
AWS Lambda introduces new controls to make it easier to search, filter, and aggregate Lambda function logs – This is GREAT! Now please make it work cross region.
AWS recognized as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms – You’d think it was "Challenger" as in giving the leaders a run for their money, but it’s talking about QuickSight so instead it’s more "Challenger" as in space shuttle.
Introducing dual-stack without public IPv4 Application Load Balancer – This is economically great now that AWS has been charging for IPv4 in what was initially positioned as a "drive IPv6 adoption" play but has turned into something that looks an awful lot like a cash grab.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explains Leadership Principles: Video & podcast – This is, contrary to what you might expect me to say, well worth the read. The eight LPs in question that he delves into are good ones, and are frequently misunderstood. This feels very "old Amazon" to me, when the company was at its zenith. The LPs are great fodder for jokes (believe you me, I know that better than most!) but they’re a thread of consistency through the core of everything Amazon does. The two new ones added a few years back are laughable; the others are remarkably solid. It’s one of the most admirable parts of Amazon, and this post makes it remarkably clear that Andy has despite everything not taken his eyes off of this particular ball.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
