16TB Cloud Databases (Part 1)
I could claim the purpose of this blog post is to talk about Amazon RDS increasing the storage per database to 16TB, and to some extent it is. It’s also an opportunity to talk about the challenges of...
View ArticleService Level Agreements (SLA)
I wanted to make some comments on Service Level Agreements (SLAs), so we interrupt our scheduled Part 2 on 16GB Cloud Databases. A Service Level Agreement establishes both an expectation between a...
View ArticleChallenges of Hyperscale Computing (Part 2)
In part one of this series I used recent increases in maximum database size as a driver for introducing the challenges of hyperscale computing. In this part we dive into the heart of the matter, which...
View ArticleAmazon and the ACLU
Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have all been under pressure these last few months over being suppliers of technology to the law enforcement and defense markets. Pretty much all technology vendors have...
View ArticleChallenges of Hyperscale Computing (Part 3)
Back in Part 2 I discussed the relationship between failures and the people resources needed to address them, and demonstrated why at hyperscale you can’t use people to handle failures. In this part...
View ArticleThe Big Non-Hack?
This week Bloomberg Businessweek (BBW) published “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies” which claimed that 30 companies, most notably Apple and Amazon Web Services, had...
View ArticleGoogle goes to the dark side on JEDI
Every time I read an article on the U.S. Department of Defense large Cloud project known as JEDI I find myself suppressing an urge to comment. Google dropping out of the bidding finally made that urge...
View ArticleEndings and Beginnings (Part 1 – AWS)
Last week’s announcement of Amazon Aurora Multi-Master being generally available marked a kind of ending for me. It also served as a reminder that I haven’t written anything about my new venture, Gaia...
View ArticleARM in the Cloud
I know I’m long overdue on a “Part 2”, but wanted to slip this in first. I’ve long been a skeptic on ARM becoming a mainstream processor choice for servers. But today’s announcement by Amazon Web...
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Covid-19 Impact on AWS
The tl;dr version is that Covid-19 is putting at best mildly upward pressure on AWS growth rate, with dramatic acceleration in some areas and significant drop-offs in others. But to think that any...
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