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by _msw_ 6y ago
Disclosure: I work for AWS building cloud infrastructure. No, Lightsail doesn't use Graviton2 powered instances today.
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Disclosure: I work at AWS building cloud infrastructure C6g, M6g, and R6g (powered by AWS Graviton2) each support 8 sizes, along with bare metal. A1 instances (powered by AWS Graviton) have 5 sizes, along with bare metal. That's a tota
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Disclosure: I work at AWS building cloud infrastructure > The c5a.16xlarge is the same price as the m6g.16xlarge. No cost effective difference in that head-to-head. c6g.16xlarge is more than 10% cheaper than m6g.16xlarge (and c5a.16xlarg
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AWS Announces GA of the 6th Gen of Amazon EC2 Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2(press.aboutamazon.com)
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Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now GA(aws.amazon.com)
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Press Release: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det... See also the Graviton2 video overview by James Hamilton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNqRvP6Xvrw And the results runni
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Disclosure: I work for AWS building cloud infrastructure My experience working at Amazon has changed my thinking about how to deliver great customer experiences. When we make a new EC2 instance available, customers expect to be able to use
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Disclosure: I work at AWS building cloud compute infrastructure Historically we have both launched .metal instances at the same time as virtualized instances, and also launched them a little later. My goal is to launch them at the same time
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Amazon EC2 C5a Instances Powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Now Available(aws.amazon.com)
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Reading my comment again, I feel that I should add: not delivering on time makes us very anxious, because we don't want to deliver a bad customer experience that comes with being late. That's why when uncertainty is introduced in
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Rome is coming [1]. I'm eager to get it in the hands of customers as soon as we can. :-) [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-new-amd-powere...
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by _msw_ 6y ago
I'm curious about your thoughts on the threat model when a cloud provider is building and operating the silicon too, and they aren't exclusively procuring silicon from suppliers that are the likes of Intel and AMD. Is it a particu
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Disclosure: I work at Amazon on building cloud infrastructure. That is an insightful general observation, though my saying so should not be interpreted as any specific statement on this launch. :-) The bar on quality and scale is high. I do
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by _msw_ 6y ago
The Graviton and Graviton2 processors do not offer SMT. Search for "each vCPU is" on https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Disclosure: I work at Amazon building cloud infrastructure Indeed price/performance is how customers I've talked to evaluate what they're able to get out of a platform. The "t-shirt" sizes are what matters in that c
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by _msw_ 6y ago
If your threat model includes having to address a concern of historically unpredictable or unreliable vendor behavior or performance (which makes sense, in a robust professional engineering practice), it can make sense to take matters in yo
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by _msw_ 6y ago
You're absolutely right with an API/ABI with the size and complexity of Win32 there is a risk to have compatibility challenges. Just like WSL v1 and gVisor, as re-implementations of Linux syscalls and subsystems. To me, well desig
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by _msw_ 6y ago
C5a instances are coming, and I think that you'll still be pleased with the price/performance of M6g instances for a wide variety of applications. But if your app works better on AMD, or on Intel, we want to give you a broad selec
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Disclosure: I work for Amazon on cloud infrastructure They're still in the works! Stay tuned, and thank you for your patience.
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As you point out, others implement compatible open source software versions of S3 and DynamoDB. Aurora already adopts (via adapting the open source software) the protocols and semantics of MySQL and PostgreSQL. Elastic Beanstalk helps you o
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by _msw_ 6y ago
I hope you are too. As technologists and professionals I think we need to be ever-vigilant to build in responsible ways that support the public good. That includes being mindful of safety, security, and privacy concerns. And also creating o
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by _msw_ 6y ago
+1 to that. I think that open source enables broader choice and freedom for everyone who's building. I remember the "bad days" of proprietary UNIX well, where every vendor also had their ISA. Today, the vast majority of appli
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by _msw_ 6y ago
The FP16 instruction implementation comes from Arm Neoverse N1 cores, and is standard Armv8.2-FP16. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm/armv8#ARMv8_Extensions_and_...
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Disclosure: I work for Amazon as a VP and Distinguished Engineer building our cloud infrastructure. My professional opinion is that is a very poor strategy. Customers want to have freedom, not lock-in. When designing infrastructure services
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Way back in 2015 there was an article in the New York Times [1][2] that included a quote from a former long time employee, "Amazon is where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves." While I personally didn't see many of
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by _msw_ 6y ago
> At least you are being honest you know nothing to the issue, as most engineers at Amazon. It is, indeed, a common fallacy that technologists think that everything can be solved with a technical solution. The challenges here are much mo
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by _msw_ 6y ago
I think you have it backwards. [edit] For clarity: I generally understand employee rights and protections, at least where I live, and I consider it part of my responsibility to communicate about them in concrete, factual ways, and to try to
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Disclosure: I work at Amazon, for AWS, as a VP / Distinguished Engineer. Even though you work at AWS, there are ways to get familiar with how fulfillment centers work, and what the working conditions are like by doing the various jobs
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by _msw_ 6y ago
Disclosure: I work for AWS. See https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1211125881264934917 for one example of working with FreeBSD. It's truly awesome that I can send an email to Amazon saying "we&#x
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by _msw_ 7y ago
Disclosure: I work for AWS. I am personally unaware of any such "formal system for anonymous denunciations," or that there ever has been. I am in a position where I would know if such a thing had existed within the last 10 years,

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