> Maybe AWS should put their dashboards on GCP Then the status page would be almost entirely useless ...
> Yes but only if you initiate a claim and follow their steps. Check out these onerous terms: There's most likely a reason for this. Like, maybe in the past AWS customers have tried claiming for SLA credits for…
> It is kind of perplexing that AWS dogfoods its own status page. > You'd think they would have learned from that. They did. The page has been updated numerous times since the start of this incident.
> instead of spending 10x on (taxpaying) staff and employees within the UK, in order to create a new technology that may be useful and solve other problems, they are spending 1x on Amazon. You imply that Amazon/AWS…
> For my own startup, I built a small cluster of 17 servers for just beneath $55K, and that had a month-to-month expense of $600 placed in a co-lo. In comparison, the same setup at AWS would be $96K per month. Why would…
> When determining what to use for development of my SaaS, I did a comparison of what you actually get from providers. The full article is at https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-... Your results…
> Is this because ISP's can see DNS traffic? as it's in the clear over UDP... Not necessarily. It could very easily be done via IP address matching (think BGP communities that advertise specific subnets between one part…
That's impossible. In my country, our anti-ISP media claims that we have the most expensive internet in the world, but 10/5Mbps FTTH (in most cases with free upgrades to 20/2Mbps for the duration of COVID-19 WFH…
In my opinion, there is really only one valid complaint in the article: > We need more choices for our ISPs If you fix this, e.g. by requiring all last-mile owners to offer the last-mile access at or below their…
Actually, maybe it's more the fact that at a prominent tech company: * zsh is the default shell on a large proportion of servers that have read-only /home, so you can't easily change to your preferred shell * a training…
Sorry, but I've read too many posts that say "bash sucks, it doesn't do <thing that bash has done for years before zsh did it> like zsh does".
> Also what can bash do that zsh can’t? I have noticed that a lot of the features listed in https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Major-Dif... aren't present in zsh, but I am not sure of all the ones that…
This is one of my primary dislikes of zsh ...
> - Oh-my-zsh has a lot of plugins for auto-completion As does bash-completion, which is available in many (but not all :-/) Linux distros and via Homebrew on MacOS and…
> For simple graph diagrams it's easy enough to open up a separate graphviz .dot file, write up a graph specification, run it through dot or neato, and include the .png in your markdown file. And then automate this with…
> Some examples of this would be Oracle Identity Manager (which is absolutely awful but is still actually the only IdM solution really capable of scaling with massive enterprise companies) The "massive enterprise…
> Also added option to export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant "paravirtialized" So they don't seem to be very serious about multi-tenancy? (Spectre and Meltdown are more or less considered the nails…
> it apparently began the internal renewal process at the exact instant the cert expired (rather than 30 days in advance as is common with ACME-based renewal). Was this some time ago? The FAQ for ACM…
> A t3.large only has a "baseline performance" of 30% > Instead, I'd compare e2-std-2 to m5.large like you started to do so. Yes, a "baseline performance" of 100% would more or less be an M-family instance, but with…
> This is already possible on ESXi with Linux guests for years now, so it’s certainly a solved problem in some capacity. And has been possible on KVM (e.g. VirtManager, RHV/RHEV/Ovirt) for years too. Xen 3 also…
> Still no live VM migrations? Based on what evidence? Statements from Google that AWS doesn't do live migration?
> We take on the statistical multiplexing over the datacenter and move VMs around You're implying here that EC2 doesn't do this. On what basis?
I've spend 1 minute skimming some of the docs, but it's unclear whether these tools can do a better job than the docker-like tooling. The vmadm "build an image from scratch with a json file" doesn't help in building…
Actually, the post was written by someone located outside the U.S. (a place not using any US-specific time-zone), and posted to the status page by someone else located outside the U.S.
> We see numerous problems with AWS services including but not limited to being unable to create new EC2 instances in any AZ. How were you launching? Using EC2 directly (e.g. `aws ec2` cli or RunInstances API call -…
> Maybe AWS should put their dashboards on GCP Then the status page would be almost entirely useless ...
> Yes but only if you initiate a claim and follow their steps. Check out these onerous terms: There's most likely a reason for this. Like, maybe in the past AWS customers have tried claiming for SLA credits for…
> It is kind of perplexing that AWS dogfoods its own status page. > You'd think they would have learned from that. They did. The page has been updated numerous times since the start of this incident.
> instead of spending 10x on (taxpaying) staff and employees within the UK, in order to create a new technology that may be useful and solve other problems, they are spending 1x on Amazon. You imply that Amazon/AWS…
> For my own startup, I built a small cluster of 17 servers for just beneath $55K, and that had a month-to-month expense of $600 placed in a co-lo. In comparison, the same setup at AWS would be $96K per month. Why would…
> When determining what to use for development of my SaaS, I did a comparison of what you actually get from providers. The full article is at https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-... Your results…
> Is this because ISP's can see DNS traffic? as it's in the clear over UDP... Not necessarily. It could very easily be done via IP address matching (think BGP communities that advertise specific subnets between one part…
That's impossible. In my country, our anti-ISP media claims that we have the most expensive internet in the world, but 10/5Mbps FTTH (in most cases with free upgrades to 20/2Mbps for the duration of COVID-19 WFH…
In my opinion, there is really only one valid complaint in the article: > We need more choices for our ISPs If you fix this, e.g. by requiring all last-mile owners to offer the last-mile access at or below their…
Actually, maybe it's more the fact that at a prominent tech company: * zsh is the default shell on a large proportion of servers that have read-only /home, so you can't easily change to your preferred shell * a training…
Sorry, but I've read too many posts that say "bash sucks, it doesn't do <thing that bash has done for years before zsh did it> like zsh does".
> Also what can bash do that zsh can’t? I have noticed that a lot of the features listed in https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Major-Dif... aren't present in zsh, but I am not sure of all the ones that…
This is one of my primary dislikes of zsh ...
> - Oh-my-zsh has a lot of plugins for auto-completion As does bash-completion, which is available in many (but not all :-/) Linux distros and via Homebrew on MacOS and…
> For simple graph diagrams it's easy enough to open up a separate graphviz .dot file, write up a graph specification, run it through dot or neato, and include the .png in your markdown file. And then automate this with…
> Some examples of this would be Oracle Identity Manager (which is absolutely awful but is still actually the only IdM solution really capable of scaling with massive enterprise companies) The "massive enterprise…
> Also added option to export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant "paravirtialized" So they don't seem to be very serious about multi-tenancy? (Spectre and Meltdown are more or less considered the nails…
> it apparently began the internal renewal process at the exact instant the cert expired (rather than 30 days in advance as is common with ACME-based renewal). Was this some time ago? The FAQ for ACM…
> A t3.large only has a "baseline performance" of 30% > Instead, I'd compare e2-std-2 to m5.large like you started to do so. Yes, a "baseline performance" of 100% would more or less be an M-family instance, but with…
> This is already possible on ESXi with Linux guests for years now, so it’s certainly a solved problem in some capacity. And has been possible on KVM (e.g. VirtManager, RHV/RHEV/Ovirt) for years too. Xen 3 also…
> Still no live VM migrations? Based on what evidence? Statements from Google that AWS doesn't do live migration?
> We take on the statistical multiplexing over the datacenter and move VMs around You're implying here that EC2 doesn't do this. On what basis?
I've spend 1 minute skimming some of the docs, but it's unclear whether these tools can do a better job than the docker-like tooling. The vmadm "build an image from scratch with a json file" doesn't help in building…
Actually, the post was written by someone located outside the U.S. (a place not using any US-specific time-zone), and posted to the status page by someone else located outside the U.S.
> We see numerous problems with AWS services including but not limited to being unable to create new EC2 instances in any AZ. How were you launching? Using EC2 directly (e.g. `aws ec2` cli or RunInstances API call -…