Serverless at re:Invent 2020 – hot takes #1

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedServerless at re:Invent 2020 – hot takes #1 During this re:Invent, I’m sharing with you the biggest serverless-related announcements and what they mean for you in a series of hot-takes. Starting with, the biggest announcements from today’s keynote, plus a bunch of other important announcements just before r:Invent. 1. Lambda changes billing…

Manage your Amazon EC2 macOS instances with AWS Systems Manager

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedManage your Amazon EC2 macOS instances with AWS Systems Manager Are you using macOS for developing, building, testing, and signing applications for Apple devices? To all the thriving community of millions of developers worldwide building applications on Apple platforms, we at AWS bring you the first ever macOS based compute environments in…

Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data transparently stored in multiple locations. Since that launch,…

Community collaboration: The S3A story

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCommunity collaboration: The S3A story Sometimes the best open source contributions involve doing less, not more. For example, Charity Majors has posited, “The best senior engineers I’ve worked with are the ones who worked the hardest not to have to write new code.” It’s not that writing new lines of code is…

Configuring autoscaling inference endpoints in Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedConfiguring autoscaling inference endpoints in Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models at scale. Amazon SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the ML process to make it…