New AWS customers will no longer be able to sign up for AWS Cloud9 (a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment) and the AWS CodeCommit private Git repository service.
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability.
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble.
Report Affirms Continued AWS Cloud Dominance
A report published this week by Wiz, a provider of a cloud security platform, found more than half of organizations (57%) are using multiple clouds, with 22% currently using three or more platforms. However, the report also noted that 72% of all workloads are running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Among organizations that […]
AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story.
Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood
In this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out.
AWS Outage Outrage | Rusty Linux | ARM Latest
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon Web Services falls on its face, Linux’s move to Rust takes the next step, and the FTC stabs another fatal wound in the horrible Arm/Nvidia deal.
AWS re:Invent Roundup: Private 5G | Graviton3 ARM Chips | DevOps Guru++
In this week’s The Long View: Three things that caught my eye from Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference. Private 5G, Graviton3 chips, and something called DevOps Guru for RDS (yes, really).
ICE Controversy May Lead to IT Contract Chaos
For as long as most IT professionals remember, the only political issues any IT organization considered were largely internal. However, that appears to have changed in 2019 as more IT professionals begin to question whether they want to do business with IT vendors that support an organization they staunchly oppose on moral grounds. This week […]
AWS Advances DevOps Agenda at Summit Event
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added services to its cloud platform designed to automate the creation of virtual private clouds (VPCs) and made available additional tools to build applications and integrate external data. Speaking at the AWS Summit event, CTO Werner Vogels said these latest services are part of an ongoing effort to automate DevOps […]