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My mother-in-law fell for a love scam last year. Luckily we caught it early and no money was lost, but I was surprised how difficult it was to convince her it was a scam despite th…

Ah, good to know, I hadn't seen that V2 update. Looks like a min 5m inactivity to auto-pause (i.e., scale to 0), and any connection attempt (valid or not) resumes the DB.

This was true for RDS serverless v1 which scaled to 0 but is no longer offered. V2 requires a minimum 0.5 ACU hourly commit ($40+ /mo).

As part of my CS grad research, I launched a website reporting on public cloud availability and performance. https://cloudlooking.glass/#show=uptime

Yes, we've been testing volume attachments every 5m since start of the year, and have experienced 100-150 attachment failures per volume type in that time frame during multiple eve…

I'm working on graduate research evaluating AWS control and data plane performance. EBS volume attachment is typically ~11s for GP2/GP3 and ~20-25s for other types. 1ms read / 5ms …

Lambda create-function control plane operations are still failing with InternalError for us - other services have recovered (Lambda, SNS, SQS, EFS, EBS, and CloudFront). Cloud avai…

For networking, the site only reports uptime % for zonal, regional, cross-region or cross-cloud tests. It excludes last mile network tests as those fail frequently due to many hops…

For data and control plane I can determine the issue from the API request/response logs (i.e., network timeout, 5xx, etc.). Network tests are trickier and we don't have a great way…

Happy to answer any questions also.

I created Cloud Looking Glass as a CS grad research project to build a better status page for public cloud platforms — independent and based on what users actually experience (in m…

$8549 with 1TB storage

There is lot of statistical and empirical data on this topic - MTBF estimates from vendors (typically 100k - 1m+ hours), Backblaze and Google drive failure data (~1-2% annual failu…

> Any usecase that requires interacting with a service is automatically excluded This isn't correct. Many applications consist of a mix of static and dynamic content. Even dynamic …

> Hardware can fail for all kinds of reasons Complex cloud infra can also fail for all kinds of reasons, and they are often harder to troubleshoot than a hardware failure. My exper…

If have a global user base, depending on your workload, a simple CDN in front of your hardware can often go a long ways with minimal cost and complexity.

Material for MkDocs is great for documentation centric websites.

Athena and Redshift Spectrum are the best alternatives on the AWS side.

As someone who spent 5 years attempting to get through zoning including a purely subjective “design review committee” in one of these affluent cities, I applaud this. While I agree…

Sounds like an L1 or malfunctioning L2. I’d never revert to ICE in cold weather climates. Handling is great and ability to preheat (without idling) is a wonderful convenience on co…

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and We are Legend (We are Bob) are a couple I really enjoyed during road trips.

+1 Bought a used X with FSD and learned the hard way to only use on freeways and highways in simple driving conditions or traffic. Even then I’m on constant alert for phantom braki…

When did you last use PHP? It's not the PHP of 15 years ago. It scales fine when properly written and deployed.

While not required, it is socially expected that 18-19yo mormon men serve missions.