AWS Lambda Turns 10: A Rare Look At The Doc That Started It
- Werner Vogels tl;dr: “And while each of these docs has a different purpose, the rationale remains the same. Writing forces the author to be clear, precise, and detailed. To string sentences together, take a position, and support that position with data. It places the burden on the author to avoid anything confusing or that could be misinterpreted by the reader. It’s hard work. I’ve never seen someone get it right the first time. It takes collecting feedback and revising and then revising again. But a good idea backed by a crisp doc has proven it can produce wonderful products – it’s something we’ve seen over-and-over again from 1-click buying and Amazon Prime to the launch of AWS and Kindle.”featured in #566
How An Empty S3 Bucket Can Make Your AWS Bill Explode
- Maciej Poćwierz tl;dr: “I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files there for testing. Two days later, I checked my AWS billing page, primarily to make sure that what I was doing was well within the free-tier limits. Apparently, it wasn’t. My bill was over $1,300, with the billing console showing nearly 100,000,000 S3 PUT requests executed within just one day!”featured in #511
Slashing Data Transfer Costs In AWS By 99%
- Daniel Kleinstein tl;dr: “AWS replicates S3 data between availability zones for you - whatever this might cost AWS is hidden away in the storage costs you pay for your data. So at its most fundamental level, this method is unlocking free cross-AZ costs - because you’ve effectively already paid for the cross-AZ cost when you uploaded your data to S3! Indeed, if you were to leave your data stored in S3, you’d end up paying significantly more than the cross-AZ cost - but by deleting it immediately after transferring it, you unlock the 99% savings we were going for.”featured in #481
The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill
- Corey Quinn tl;dr: Speculative cost analysis of Amazon Prime Day 2023's AWS bill. The author calculates the on-demand cost at retail pricing for various AWS services used during the 48-hour event. The total estimated cost comes to $102,424,943.84. Even though this figure is likely much higher than the actual cost, considering the volume discounts and internal adjustments, the estimated infrastructure spend is a small fraction compared to the $12.7 billion in sales generated during Prime Day, highlighting the efficiency and return on investment of AWS services.featured in #440
How Canva Saves Millions Annually In Amazon S3 Costs
tl;dr: Canva saved millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by migrating their infrequently accessed user-generated data to the S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class. This storage class offered low-cost archival storage with fast retrieval times. By understanding their data and usage patterns and strategically transitioning data, Canva achieved a positive return on investment within a few months, resulting in significant cost savings of approximately $3.6 million per year.featured in #425
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Doubling Down On Open, Part II
- Shay Banon tl;dr: Elastic will move the "code of Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under SSPL and the Elastic License, giving users the choice of which license to apply."featured in #222
Why AWS Loves Rust, And How We’d Like To Help
- Matt Asay tl;dr: "We’re committing to further strengthen a community that has greatly benefited us and our customers." As well as the community, AWS investments include "developer tools, infrastructure components, interoperability, and verification.”featured in #217