AWS re:Invent 2024, held in Las Vegas from December 2nd to 6th, brought the cloud computing world together for a week of groundbreaking announcements and insightful sessions. Under new CEO Matt Garman leadership, AWS unveiled a wave of innovations across compute, storage, databases, generative AI, and data analytics.
AWS Innovate is an online conference hosted by AWS designed to inspire and educate executives and IT professionals. You can learn to build and scale generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI built in from day one. Access leading foundation models, customize with your own data, and use the leading security, access control, and features you trust from AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2023 is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. The in-person event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to 2,000+ technical sessions, the Expo, after-hours events, and so much more. These are notes I’ve compiled from the conference.
Not everything is best suited for the cloud. I've used Evernote for a few years and always thought their performance was impressive.
http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2011/05/17/architectural-digest/#
Take aways:
freemium model \<http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/147/next-tech-remember-the-money.html\>__,
based on the idea from their CEO: *The easiest way to get 1 million
people paying is to get 1 billion people using. *Evernote is designed
to become profitable at a 1% conversion rate.*A great article and simple way to take advantage os Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service even if you don't work in Java. I'm working on integrating this approach with Eclipse's AWS Toolkit to access all the server management tasks close to my code. I'l post and update if it turns ugly.
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PHP on AWS Elastic Beanstalk \| Cameron Stokes's Blog \<http://cameronstokes.com/2011/01/20/php-on-aws-elastic-beanstalk/\>__.
While Amazon claims they’re working on other platforms, initially Beanstalk only supports Java applications deployed in the Apache Tomcat 6 container. However…using Quercus, a “100% Java implementation of PHP 5″ from Caucho, we can run PHP using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. All it takes is setting up a simple Maven project.
A great discussion on a potential problem for database servers with limited drive space (life EC2 small instances). The best solution is in the comments section so be sure to read through.
One very interesting thing I noticed with MySQL was that if you delete a database, ibdata file doesn’t shrink by that much space to minimize disk usage. I deleted the database and checked usage of /usr/local/mysql/var folder and noticed that ibdata file is still the same size. So the problem I face now is, how do I claim back this space?
Amazon EC2 Basics For The Curious | Django Aware
Amazon EC2 Basics For The Curious By Paul Kenjora | June 3, 2008
For those of you wondering what it would be like to host and maintain a an application on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) here is a basic list of daily operations. These steps assume you’ve set up your Amazon account. This is the basic set of commands you can use to fully administer an EC2 server.
| Amazon.com: Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Web Services | Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services are designed to make web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for developers.
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