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Hi there, Hey there, I lead Developer Advocacy at AWS for Serverless ( https://twitter.com/chrismunns ). I'll give you that this 80% number seems pretty out there. I don't know how…

Hey there, I lead Developer Advocacy at AWS for Serverless ( https://twitter.com/chrismunns ) and have been involved in this space since pretty much the start. Thought I'd toss my …

"AWS costs almost twice more than analogous DO servers, but AWS has way more features." When you us AWS you are paying for more than just a cheap VPS, which essentially is all DO i…

I find the better pattern here is to limit and discourage SSH and then monitor and log the hell out of it. There are numerous tools out there that can centralize any actions being …

AZ's are typically 5-15miles apart. Needs to be a pretty large hurricane that far in land to take out all the various datacenters. Also, just to clarify, you can do multi-region RD…

I've always wondered why this type of information hasn't been attached to a driver's license much like organ donorship is in many states. Seems like a prime system to keep such a t…

More likely this. AWS has at numerous talks mentioned a slightly franken-xen fork of Xen.

"The price premium of using AWS is high enough that it's trivial to afford leasing tons of excess capacity to handle failures and still save tons of money." "AWS certainly is conve…

I sincerely hope you are joking here.

np! at the end of the day we all hate on call. cheers.

You say LUN, are these SAN devices, or is it direct attached storage? Was the replication, load balancing, and snapshotting all something that you set up and manage yourselves? --e…

Calling Postgres the leading open source DB is probably a bit more than a stretch these days, but yes its quite popular with startups(though one would argue nosql DBs are #1 in the…

Can you completely snapshot those volumes at any time, recreate them and attach them to new servers? Could you take these snapshots and easily copy them around the world?(again ass…

there are languages inside of Amazon that are first class citizens (java & ruby mostly, node.js more now). Go is too new, moving too fast, and hasn't seen the same kind of adoption…

AWS has Amazon Linux: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/ Since its the default OS for Linux on AWS, it probably has a pretty large install base. More than most would probably…

AWS doesn't oversubscribe at all. This is a pretty baseless rumor.

US-East isn't a single building. Per AWS its over 10 datacenters that make up US-East(from a post they had in 2012). You aren't in the same building as their availability zones, yo…

10Gen is based in NYC, so yeah they get around.

This isn't ARP per se as one would traditionally expect it. This is the networking in VPC handling the movement of the ENI.

"That being said, opsworks is still based on chef, which is still cumbersome." re:chef I don't think this is necessarily a fair assessment and true for all. There are a ton of comm…

"Except every other provider enables swap by default." This is false and 100% incorrect. Most AMI's on AWS don't enable SWAP by default whether supplied by a 3rd party or AWS thems…

I lived in a building where the landlord stopped renting out apartments normally and started instead putting them on Airbnb. He charged ~30% for doing it via Airbnb than the normal…

everyone saying they can't hit certain sites(images on Wordpress/amazon/etc) is actually seeing the affect of their ISP's networks and the CDNs those sites use. Lotta Level3 issues…