Amazon Web Services from a database perspective: RDS and Aurora, databases on EC2, storage, networking, IAM, migration and keeping the bill under control.
Thursday starts with one of the most awaited keynote of the conference. The keynote Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com. He started with a video inspired by the famous scene from Matrix when Neo has to choose between the blue pill and red pill. Neo takes the red pill and exit the simulation. Werner also took the pill. But he entered…
Of course today’s highlight was Werner Vogels’ keynote with is amazing presentation skills and some great announcements. You will for sure you will find plenty of articles about it.On my side I will rather focus on 2 thematics which are a bit closer and relevant for daily operational activities: Network “debugging” and the Resilience Hub. Network monitoring and tracing For…
Traditionally, the 3rd day is almost always the busiest and the most crowded in the sessions. I followed 4 breakout sessions, one 2 hours workshop and found some time to visit the Expo to see some sponsors and look for goodies 🙂 Confidential compute I have not really paid attention beforehand but I attended sessions mainly on security topics. I…
So again during the 3rd day of the re:Invent 2022 there were plenty of interesting information to take with us. However, the most interesting part was for sure the workshop about gray failures and how to mitigate them in a multi-AZ environment. Let me try to wrap this up for you… What are gray failures? No idea what “gray failures…
The second day usually starts with the keynote from Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS. The keynote is not a technical session but it’s a good place to learn about new products or services launches. In such big event, it’s show as well. When you enter the room, there is a band playing music and I liked the setlist full of…
As usual the day 2 with Adams Selipsky’s keynote is where most announcements are done…and they have been severals. As you will probably see plenty of articles about these, and by the way I recommend you to take few minutes for the one of @nicolas-jardot, on my hand I will focus on auditing and compliance by showing how you can…
This week I feel lucky to attend the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. This event is so big there are multiple ways to go through it. For the first day I made a mix between breakout sessions and a workshop. Cloud and DevOps The very first session was about combining terraform and Github actions to deploy infrastructure in AWS.…
Here we go, the 1st day of this 2022 edition of the AWS re:Invent is almost over and it was already a pretty busy day with 2 interesting hands-on workshop. Here some insights about Cloud WAN and to finish a small tips about a “funny” trap… Creating a large network: Cloud WAN When working over multiple VPCs as well as…
It all began with a challenge In the consulting job, some tasks can be a bit repetitive. They also take up valuable consulting time that the client would be more than happy to use for higher value-added tasks. So, my team and I started thinking about a solution two years ago. Which tasks could be automated to facilitate the work…
Servers patching is very important but can be very challenging. One of our customers, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd implemented successfully AWS Systems Manager (SSM) to automate patching not only of instances running in AWS Cloud but also covering on-premises instances no matter if it’s bare-metal or virtual machines. What is AWS Systems Manager? AWS Systems Manager is built with many capabilities…
When working with AWS, I would not advice to run all operations through the AWS Console. And it’s not always possible or easy to do it only with pipelines and Infrastructure as Code. Sometimes, we just need to perform the same operations on many instances or we already have an automation based on a script. In those situations, AWS CLI…
For my day 3 recap, please jump here. The fourth day has started and I decided to attend a couple of session. Both are not in my direct field of expertise but promised to be very interesting. Network architectures for inbound traffic inspection This by chalk-talk was organized by Alexandra Huides and Tom Adamski, both Senior Architects from AWS. During…
