Posts with keyword: aws

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Leaving AWS

Tue May 27 18:15:00 2025

I am no longer working for AWS, but I'm still active in digital identity and working on a new book on authorization for Manning.
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A New Job at AWS

Fri Sep 30 17:39:00 2022

I started a new job!
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Image by chascar via Flickr One of the components of Kynetx Network Service (KNS) is a 30K (compressed) static Javascript library. This is mostly a slightly modified jQuery along with some other components. We set the Expires header so that it is cached in the browser for 24 hours. Even still, it's a significant load on our network bandwidth and, consequently, our budget. When Amazon's CloudFront (CF) was announced, we realized that we could move these kinds of static files to CF as a way to reduce our bandwidth and maybe get a performance improvement. If you aren't familiar
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Pricing Bulk Cold Storage and Real Engineering

Mon Jan 5 08:26:00 2009

Image by penguincakes via Flickr James Hamilton has put together an analysis of the cost of bulk cold storage. That is, the cost of storing data, including the fully burdened cost of power in a data center, without the associated transport fees. The answer: $0.80/GB/year. Wow--that's cheap. And of course it's getting cheaper. When James did a similar analysis using numbers from two years ago, the cost was $2.50/GB/year. One thought I had as I looked at James' analysis is that we don't teach enough people to do these kinds of calculations. Not that there's anything particularly difficult about
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CloudFront Seems Like a No-Brainer

Tue Nov 18 17:38:00 2008

Doug Kaye, who actually wrote a book on hosting, has been beta testing Amazon's CloudFront service--a high performance front end for Amazon S3. Doug's favorably impressed. My calculations show that Kynetx would be able to put 80% of our bandwidth load on CloudFront (most static JS libraries) for $1.19 per day and if Doug's experience is typical get better performance to boot! Seems like a no-brainer to me given that we're paying several hundred dollars per month for a 750 Kbps circuit that I'd rather not upgrade for a while. Offloading 80% of that traffic would give us a
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Amazon's SimpleDB

Tue Mar 4 16:47:00 2008

Jay Ridgeway from Nextumi(click to enlarge) This afternoon, I was torn between the session on botnets and one on Amazon's SimpleDB by Mike Culver and Jay Ridgeway. I chose the latter. The goal is a durable, flexible datastore at a cheap price: $0.14 per machine house, $0.10/Gb into the cloud and $0.18/Gb out. The API call list is short. Domains are used to partition data. You can think of them as tables, that helps. To add something to a domain you use this syntax: PUT (item, 123), (description, Sweater), (color, Red), (color, Blue) The first name-value tuple is the
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