Good Morning!
Another week has come and gone. Next week has me in Kansas City for NANOG, then Portland for Monitorama. Travel season is once again upon me…
From the Community
Did you know that Cogent runs one of the 13 root servers that underpin the entire DNS system? Because it seems Cogent remains unaware of that fact.
I like the idea of making EC2 boot time 8x faster; that’s almost down to the level of container instantiation time.
Microsoft’s recently announced Recall feature is fundamentally a screenshotting keylogger. Their "focus on security" blog post didn’t even make it a full calendar month before being massively undermined.
How we’ve saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database sounds like what would come out of my collaborating with Charity Majors on a shitpost.
S3 Is Showing Its Age is true, but it’s also a question of how do you implement some of these things without massively breaking expected behaviors for current users.
DocumentDB ("Amazon Basics MongoDB") snapshots are apparently a new breach vector.
AWS Security dragged its feet for 11 months on this vulnerability disclosure. What the hell is going on over there?
Jobs
Duolingo is on the lookout for a top-notch Platform Engineer to join their team in Pittsburgh. Relocation to the Steel City is required, but it’s known for being a cool and affordable town. If coding, scaling systems, and keeping platforms running seamlessly is your passion, check it out.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Lattice, IPv6, Db2; an unnecessary swipe at AWS Glue
Screaming in the Cloud: Slide Into The Future Of Presentations with Anthony Fu
Screaming in the Cloud: Uwubernetes with Kat Cosgrove
Choice Cuts
Amazon Bedrock announces new Converse API – The heavily implied selling point for Bedrock has been "a consistent API for different models," but only now does it actually have such a thing. Ahead of your skis much, AWS?
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces up to 10x faster startup time – When exactly in this lengthy startup time does the secret $1.90 an hour session charge begin accruing?
AWS Launches Console-based Bulk Policy Migration for Billing and Cost Management Console Access – This proves once again that if you ignore AWS’s bleating emails for long enough they’ll build an entire tool to fix the problem for you. The folks who migrated by hand are likely fairly annoyed by this, but the takeaway for customers is to drag your feet on any AWS mandated change. This really should have been released at the same time as the new permissions model.
Let us manage your relational database! – Sorry; I’ve used RDS enough to know better by now. The weird quirks it exhibits are too costly to the business to justify the investment.
Your AI is Only as Good as Your Data – Today I learned that AWS’s data is apparently crap.
The art of possible: Three themes from RSA Conference 2024 – I like this post a lot. It highlights what I noticed around the RSA periphery: a lot of AI focus, and blessedly few firewall sales pitches.
10 things to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman – Number 11: What is his favorite music genre, artist, and/or song? Number 12: When is his birthday? If you’ve been following me for a while you probably know why I’m asking…
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
