Anybody attending Amazon Re:invent 2015

Any one here with me in Laa Vegas at the Amazon Re: invent conference?

Pretty spectacular, 19,000 attendees. All of which wholeheartedly believe in The Cloud.

pparks1 said:

Any one here with me in Laa Vegas at the Amazon Re: invent conference?

Pretty spectacular, 19,000 attendees. All of which wholeheartedly believe in The Cloud.

Hello, Patrick. How's it going there? I see it's pretty exciting.

HippsieGypsie said:

Hello, Patrick. How's it going there? I see it's pretty exciting.

Well, it was a blast. Very tiring. I attended 2 keynotes and 13 breakout sessions over a 3 day period of time. We use Amazon Web Services pretty extensively at our office. I am actually thinking of studying for the Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Professional certification.

pparks1 said:

Well, it was a blast. Very tiring. I attended 2 keynotes and 13 breakout sessions over a 3 day period of time. We use Amazon Web Services pretty extensively at our office. I am actually thinking of studying for the Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Professional certification.

Sounds like it was a busy schedule!

LOL! Didn't even know Amazon had Web Services until you posted this. Thanks for that. I assume this is for marketing via Amazon?

How are the wife and kids?

HippsieGypsie said:

Sounds like it was a busy schedule!

LOL! Didn't even know Amazon had Web Services until you posted this. Thanks for that. I assume this is for marketing via Amazon?

How are the wife and kids?

Amazon web services are their cloud offerings to business customers. We host nearly all of our work virtual servers on Amazon AWS EC2. Amazon allows us to spin up however many servers we want, using whatever resources we need and we pay only for what we use. For example, we can spin up a box with 60gb of Ram and 32vCPUs and only pay $1.68 per hour. So, if we need 8 hours of data gronk time per month, we can do for $13. For smaller servers like 4 cores and 16gb of ram, its like $0.18 per hour.

In addition to servers, they offer networking, firewalls, DNS services, monitoring, log aggregation, relational database servers, lamda functions (can run an entire website without using a server), load balancers,etc.

The freedoms provided by Amazon to us are huge. We script the building of servers, hardware, storage, memory, and bandwidth are no longer dependent upon what we own.

Companies like Netflix run their entire stack on Amazon Web Services. Ever watch a baseball game, and see all the stats about the speed of the pitches, and where the pitches are going? These statisticss are all uploaded to Amazon and processed in real time. An entire baseball game records nearly 50gb of data to Amazon Web Services. Dropbox stores their data for customers using Amazon Web Serices (namely S3).

Amazon is basically the defacto standard for hosting cloud based web services.

pparks1 said:

Amazon is basically the defacto standard for hosting cloud based web services.

Hmm. I never knew that Amazon was that big, but then again I never worked your industry. And here I thought they were only a web store. I would think then that you would highly consider the certification then.

Thanks, Patrick. I can again say that I learned something from you! :)

Amazon web services did 1.8 Billion...just in Q2 of 2015.Amazon Web Services generated $1.8B last quarter, up 81% from one year ago - GeekWire

It's funny, but when I think of Anazon these days, I think of cloud computing, music, and kindle books as much as I think of them as a storefront for everything else.

pparks1 said:

Amazon web services did 1.8 Billion...just in Q2 of 2015.Amazon Web Services generated $1.8B last quarter, up 81% from one year ago - GeekWire

It's funny, but when I think of Anazon these days, I think of cloud computing, music, and kindle books as much as I think of them as a storefront for everything else.

That great growth! If I remember correctly they were one of the .coms that survived the bubble burst way back when, yes? I have a friend that lost his arse on those stocks.

pparks1 said:

Ever watch a baseball game, and see all the stats about the speed of the pitches, and where the pitches are going? These statisticss are all uploaded to Amazon and processed in real time. An entire baseball game records nearly 50gb of data to Amazon Web Services.

Such as what I'm seeing here below with Cubs vs Cards? In live time yet?

And what I'm amazed at is I'm watching the game streaming (Ethernet) in IE via Comcast on my secondary monitor on my 9-year-old Acer with 10 while surfing the forum with the other. Updated graphics card of course, but still. No hiccups in the streaming whatsoever! Who'd of ever thought.

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