Posts Tagged ‘aws’
Turning a Twitter thread into a post. I wrote about the performance of AWS’s Graviton2 Arm based systems on InfoQ The last 40 years have been a Red Queen race against Moore’s law, and Intel wasn’t a passenger, they were making it happen. I used to like Pat Gelsinger’s standard reply to ‘when will VMware […]
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Tags: ARM, aws, Graviton2, x86
AnandTech has published Amazon’s Arm-based Graviton2 against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute which includes comprehensive benchmarks across Amazon’s general purpose instance types. The cost analysis section describes ‘An x86 Massacre’, as while the pure performance of the Arm chip is generally in the same region as the x86 competitors, its lower price means the price/performance is substantially […]
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Tags: ARM, aws, benchmark, Graviton2, performance, x86
TL;DR Amazon Web Services Certified Solution Architect Professional (AWS CSA Pro) took me a lot more time to study for than Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Architect (GCP PCA). They fundamentally test the same skills in terms of matching appropriate services to customer needs, but there’s just more of AWS, and greater fractal detail (that’s […]
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Tags: amazon, Associate, aws, certification, cloud, CSA, GCP, google, PCA, Pro
The great bandwidth swindle
This isn’t a new thing. I’ve even written about it before. But it seems to be coming up in a LOT of conversations at the moment. The price that cloud providers charge for egress from their networks to the Internet is staggeringly high. Or as Bryan Cantril put it in a recent episode of his […]
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Tags: aws, Azure, bandwidth, cloud, cost, data gravity, ec2, economics, egress, GCP, Lightsail, pricing, s3, transfer, VPS
Certification
TL;DR Knowing how the cloud works is becoming essential knowledge in the IT industry, and getting certification is a reliable way of ensuring that knowledge is consistent and tested. Background Yesterday this excellent cartoon showed up in Forrest Brazeal’s ‘FaaS and Furious‘ strip, it’s very timely as certification has been a hot topic at work […]
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Tags: ACE, amazon, aws, Azure, cert, certification, certs, cloud, CSA, CSA-A, exam, GCP, google, PCA, training
All three of the major cloud service providers have (or have announced) ‘have your cake and eat it’ versions of their services where data resides on premises whilst stuff is managed from a control plane in the cloud. AWS has Outposts (launched at re:Invent 2018 but still at the ‘sign up to learn more’ stage […]
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Tags: Anthos, aws, Azure, Azure Stack, cloud, GCP, google, Outposts
The Constraint Unblocker
#2 of jobs that should exist but don’t in most IT departments (#1 was The Application Portfolio Manager). What’s a constraint? From Wikipedia: The theory of constraints (TOC)[1] is an overall management philosophy introduced by Eliyahu M. Goldratt in his 1984 book titled The Goal It’s the idea that in a manufacturing process there will […]
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Tags: amazon, aws, constraint, DevOps, Goldratt, James Hamilton, The Goal, The Phoenix Project, theory of constraints, TOC, unblock
Amazon’s Chris Munns announced at the recent Serverless Conference NYC that AWS Lambda will soon support a feature called traffic shifting. This will allow a weight to be applied to Lambda function aliases to shift traffic between two versions of a function. The feature will enable the use of canary releases and blue/green deployment. Continue reading the full story at InfoQ.
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Tags: aws, Lambda, serverless
TL;DR VMs on public cloud don’t provide the same level of control over sizing as on premises VMs, and this can have a number of impacts on how capacity is managed. Most importantly ‘T-shirt’ type sizing can provide sub optimal fit of workload to infrastructure, and the ability to over commit CPUs is very much […]
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Tags: aws, capacity management, cloud, containers, Kubernetes, Turbonomic, VMs, VMware
Originally posted internally 13 Dec 2016, this post marks the end of my journey through the back catalogue: The dust has hardly settled from re:Invent, but today brings the first big public launch since AWS’s big annual event – AWS Managed Services. This will be one of those blog posts that I hope saves me having […]
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