AWS

AWS re:invent 2018 – Day 3

On Wednesday morning, this is the big day for AWS re:Invent conference. The day started with a 3 hours keynote from Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS.The keynote covered a lot of different topics: databases, blockchain, machine learning… As most keynotes,(…)

AWS re:invent 2018 – Day 2

Second day in Las Vegas for the AWS re:Invent conference. It was time to travel a little bit around the campus to attend some sessions at the Aria. The planning was still around databases and a bit AWS knowledge. The(…)

AWS re:invent 2018 – Day 1

Yesterday was my first day at AWS re:Invent conference. The venue is quite impressive, the conference is split between 6 hotels where you can attend different types of sessions including chalk talk, keynotes, hands-on labs or workshop. For my first day,(…)

AWS re:invent 2018 warm up

The Cloud is now part of our job so we have to get a deeper look on the available services to understand and take best advantage of them. The annual AWS conference re:invent has started tonight in The Venetian at Las(…)

Spectre and Meltdown, Oracle Database, AWS, SLOB

By Franck Pachot . Last year, I measured the CPU performance for an Oracle Database on several types of AWS instances. Just by curiosity, I've run the same test (SLOB cached reads)(…)

Amazon AWS instances and Oracle database performance

By Franck Pachot . When you run Oracle Database on Amazon AWS you Bring Your Own Licenses depending on the number of virtual cores (which are the number of cores allocated to your vCPUs). Behind the instance types, you have(…)