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Nov 30 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
What is best in life?

"Scams, Harold. The scams."

It's time for the #reInvent keynote about that most magical of scams: selling digital pickaxes into a data gold rush: Machine Learning®
Remember, Lambda has 100x more customers than its ML services, based upon statements made in two different keynotes earlier this week. That'd indicate that a lot of the talk around these services is likely hype-driven.
"Undifferentiated heavy lifting." DRINK! #reinvent
Honestly I really want to talk to the 6% of @awscloud largest customers who managed to avoid using any of these. What have you seen?! What can we learn from you!? AMONG TOP AWS CUSTOMERS 94 94% use 10+ database 0/0 and anal
Another Spark plug! NEW NEW Amazon Athena for Apache Spark Get started interactw
(I do like Athena except for the part where I am very bad with SQL.)
Today's #reinvent keynote by @SwamiSivasubram has a narrative arc to it. That's a welcome change from yesterday's main keynote.
Ooh, reference customers for Amazon Basics MongoDB.

Also wait--did they rename it to "Amazon DocumentDB" from its former (and no I am not kidding) "Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)"? a person standing in front of a blue screen with text AMAZON
New: Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters.

Okay, so is this DocumentDB (with @elastic compatibility) now? a person standing on a stage with text Amazon DocumentDB Ela
Guest speaker from Expedia. I'm legit surprised that Expedia is not only still around, but big enough to be a featured #reinvent keynote speaker. TIL...
SageMaker removes some heavy lifting and also fixed my heavy wallet. a person standing on a stage with text Removing the heavy li
This is the key problem @awscloud has in Machine Learning®.

They offer things like this that you get to assemble yourself.

Meanwhile, @Azure has an API that my Twitter client hits to (completely automatically) handle the alt text for this image.

Customers want solutions. a person standing on a stage with text FEATURE UPDATE Amazon
New! Coming soon to a cross-AZ data transfer bill near you... a person standing on a stage with a large screen behind him
A new open source project that... *checks notes* makes it easier to use AWS's paid services for more workloads.

Yup, that's very "open source project at Amazon" on-brand. a man standing on a stage with text NEW Trusted Language Ext
Security sprawl meets Machine Learning® sprawl... a person on a stage with a large screen in the back with tex
Hell yes another permissions management system. a person standing on a stage with text FEATURE UPDATE Centra
♪ ♫ ♬ HIIIIIIIIGHWAY to the Data Zone ♪ ♫ ♬
@SwamiSivasubram'll take you right into the Data Zone ♪ ♫ ♬ Amazon DataZone Catalog, discover, share, and govern data ac
Is this another bite at the Redshift Spectrum apple? a person standing on a stage with text FEATURE UPDATE Amazon
Potential correction for a comment upthread. I haven't had time to dive into the details any, but @_msw_ has a habit of being frustratingly correct basically all the time.
This (excellent) guest speaker apparently has "buy Twitter for fun" money. Good god.
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Nov 29
And we're ready for @aselipsky's Wild Ride, better known as his #reinvent keynote...

He takes the stage like a corporate rockstar. SIR IT IS WAY TOO EARLY
NASDAQ is moving trading systems to @awscloud. "When the cloud is down, so are the markets" is now ambiguous.
Talks about how they're not slowing down due to the recession.

Maybe true, but Amazon is going to have a much harder time listening to customers given the massive layoffs in the Alexa / Echo division...
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Nov 29
Made it to the #reinvent "Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis."

The band is playing a rousing ode to the @awscloud bill, "You Spin Me (Right Round Baby)." a band playing music on a large stage.
There's a lot of neat high-level stuff that @awscloud does (and yes, some ridiculous things to), but it all distills down to this: the infrastructure. And I'd say that if AWS misses being "the best in the world at it" it's by a hair's breadth at absolute most.
It is currently very very loud and there are bright lights shining in my eyes constantly.

THIS MUST BE WHAT IT'S LIKE INSIDE OF AN AWS DATA CENTER
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Nov 22
Okay, let's unpack this trash fire a bit because the question on @awscloud is non-obvious.

30MB file, downloaded 2 million times a month? Threading time.
Storage for the month is comfortably under a penny.

Let's assume that that 2 million downloads is 60TB of egress.

If stored in EC2 or S3 in a tier 1 region (say, us-east-1), those 2 million downloads will cost $5120.
"But you wouldn't do that, you'd use CloudFront."

Okay. At that point the pricing becomes "it depends."
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Nov 16
This is an insurmountable task for @awscloud, if for no other reason than that they view a feature and a service as the exact same thing.
I am not joshing you.

Take AWS AppConfig.

It's a top level service in the console, but its docs say it's a "capability of AWS Systems Manager."

So is it a service, or isn't it? Nobody can agree.
If I want to spin up one EC2 instance, I've also gotta deal with VPCs, IAM, S3, data transfer, EBS, and probably Route 53. There are no clear boundaries.
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Nov 10
Big deal here: gp3 finally comes to RDS in all @awscloud regions.

It starts off as an across the board 20% discount. Use this please.

aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…
Wait. Scratch that. What the HELL?
Okay, so there's still an economic win if you're having to overprovision on gp3 to get the performance you want, but it's wild to me that RDS's version of gp3 has significantly different economics than EC2's version of gp3.

This is *bizarre*.
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Nov 7
Saw a wonderful question; doing a thread on it with permission. Let's get after it...
If you want to be an engineer (bounded to computers, not chemical or mechanical or civil or whatnot), time spent learning networking is never time wasted.

Cloud makes networking something you don't really have to "think about," until suddenly you really do.
I became a better linux sysadmin by getting my CCNA in the last recession.
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