AWS
AWS took 6 months to fix Security Token Service bug - IAM policy simulator inadequate, says Stedi
"No system is infallible. Sometimes, it is AWS..."
Redis
AWS, Google, Oracle back Redis fork “Valkey” under the Linux Foundation
"Valkey will be community-driven without surprise license changes that break trust and disrupt a level open source playing field" says the Linux Foundation.
AWS
AWS throws customers (and regulators) a bone on data exit/cloud transfer costs
Cross-AZ traffic, NAT gateways, elastic IPs, overprovisioning: Hell for your CFO. Jumping ship? Now a little cheaper.
AWS
AWS buys a data centre campus with two nuclear plants attached
Will suck up 40% of two nuclear power stations' output under Talen Energy deal.
AWS
Wyze blames AWS outage, Redis cache issues for video camera security howler
Never, NEVER mix up "device ID and user ID mappings" kids....
Sponsored
How tech firms and automakers are breaking down siloes to fuel innovation
"The true definition of partnership is taking shape – an alliance-led approach where the whole industry leans into the idea that we’re on this innovation journey together..."
AWS
Amazon’s “Rufus” shows it eating its own AI dogfood, as AWS closes in on $100B run rate; Q comes to Glue
"You can ask Amazon Q for Data Integration to ‘read JSON files from S3, join on ‘accountid’, and load into DynamoDB’ and in response, it will return an end-to-end data integration job that can perform that action"
AWS
AWS invests $15 billion in Japan - as Oracle mops up big customers
AWS is expanding its operations in Japan by building on its infrastructure capacity in Tokyo and Osaka.
Sponsored
How SEGA’s Felix Baker delivered a data transformation
“We have our low latency stream which goes into MongoDB; we have our main engineering pipeline, which goes to S3 and gets encrypted for GDPR purposes. Then we have a Spark stream, which pulls the data into Delta Lake..."
AWS
AWS rattles customers with unclear warning over mystery "recent CVE"
Warns users it will terminate affected tasks, but leaves a lacuna... (Fear not, we're here with details)
AWS
AI firm Anthropic slashed its AWS bill 40% by using Karpenter
"If spot instances weren’t available, we had no way to tell Cluster Autoscaler to fall back to on-demand Instances, and we ended up stuck in a few loops…" others note.
Kubernetes
The future of Kubernetes at AWS: Slack, Anthropic lead a "Karpenter" love-in
Hammer down those AWS bills, chisel away at that scheduling latency; pick a carpentry tool, pick your clumsy metaphor...