Tuesday, Jun 20, 2023
Interesting post about using S3 storage classes and how it saved Canva a whole bunch of money, but my favourite bit was “There’s very little to write about regarding the migration effort, which was an engineer’s dream! We applied a lifecycle policy to each of the buckets, and quickly migrated nearly 80 billion objects in approximately two days.”
Great to see how understanding, analytics and optimising the cloud gave large returns for a small engineering undertaking.
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Monday, Jun 12, 2023
Here is my hot take that I forgot to write about from hashtag#AWSSummitLondon last week, in emoji, 🖥 🤖: 🛒🏗: 🤑💰: 👪 🤓.
Not only was it a lot busier than last year in terms of numbers, but with the growth of something that we probably didn’t expect from last year (effective AI) a lot of new content.
There was a lot more AI 🖥 🤖 content and it was generally well received, however, very few people (partners or customers) have full access to all of AWS new services for AI… yet. There is a split between product companies buying 🛒 or building 🏗 AI services, probably more towards buying at the moment. I wonder how that will pan out, as to whether it will mean they remain on the edge of capability, or whether it will tie them to older versions. More seem to be buying from specialist companies at the moment. 🤑💰 Cost management was, of course, a well-covered subject, and I expect this to continue to be big going forwards. A lot of the management of cost has now become a significant extra framework around AWS. A split in sessions between how to manage costs and companies that have done it. And finally, great events at the end. To fill a London event with around 25,000 people 👪 🤓 (that was the rumour) is good news for AWS and for the cloud in general.
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Thursday, Sep 8, 2022
I often hear from some people that there are so many companies that have completed and mature in their Cloud Native architecture, DevOps and Cyber Security, however, we are probably still in the foothills.
The tech winners and losers of the pandemic.
What we still see is a signification growth of the major hyperscalers, with others trying to complete on location rather than size. Whilst we will probably see this for a while, especially with a number of companies still requiring on-premise datacenters, it seems hard to imagine how others would compete, or manage to outspend/grow the major hyperscalers.
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Thursday, Jan 13, 2022
Had a good moment yesterday. I spent 2 hours “troubleshooting” a problem where I had terminated 2 ends of armoured ethernet in my house… Turns out that I had wired them upside down. Reminded me of years ago getting dusty cabling up buildings in the middle of the night.
Actually, I’m pretty glad that I don’t have to do that anymore.
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Monday, Jun 28, 2021
There is so much great documentation within the AWS docs, sometimes it is as much about finding the right article to lead the way. I just stumbled on [AWS’s Security Reference Architecture guide(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/security-reference-architecture/architecture.html)], this is like a treasure map for cloud security fanatics! It’s built around a simple three‑tier web app (web, app, data), but the twist is that every layer is build with security in mind: IAM, logging, network defenses, encryption—you name it, it’s diagrammed and explained. You get clear advice on account structure (Security, Infrastructure, Workloads OUs), where each AWS service fits, how they talk to each other, plus pointers to code templates in CloudFormation or Terraform.
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Tuesday, Dec 3, 2019
I recently have been working on single pipelines. The idea behind it is that with the growth of software development and the increase in how we manage, write and maintain our software and out infrastructure as separate items, there are a lot of complications that come out when integrating both in people and processes.
There is only 1 Team A regular setup when imagining software projects appears to be that despite the dream of DevOps making software teams more interoperable, they have potentially become more divided. Generally I often see teams that are separated as such:
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Wednesday, Apr 10, 2019
Increasing disk space on the fly inside AWS is a joy to do (kind of). Especially compared to the challenges with bare-metal or on premise systems.
Understanding the Disks When working with disks, it is a good idea to have some idea how they work. Normally you would have a set of disks defined in you /dev system (for devices) and you should be able to see these added externally.
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