AWS EC2 M6g Instance Types - What You Need to Know about New ARM CPUs

December 05, 2019 by Nathaniel Avery in Enterprise, Conferences

AWS caused quite a stir during this year’s annual re:Invent conference when they announced not only were they making their own ARM-based microprocessors called the Graviton 2, but also using those chips to power a new AWS instance type - the EC2 M6g. AWS claims the new instances not only provide several advantages over Intel based processors powering the large majority of the fleet (such as the m5), but that the instance types will also cost less. Truth be told, most customers will find that the of a vm is already pretty low, however, savings are savings. Out of curiosity, I decided to dig a little deeper into what that new instance is like during launch week.

AWS re:Invent SWAG - What You Need to Know

December 28, 2018 by Nathaniel Avery in Conferences

I recently read through Nick Triantafillou’s excellent review of AWS re:Invent 2018 SWAG and feel there needs to be a bit of a level set for people who didn’t attend. This is especially true if you are considering attending next year, and you expect to take home a massive haul of free stuff. Not everyone who attends walks away with all of the items. Know that the best way to get swag at re:Invent is to have a plan.

AWS re:Invent - Amazon is Now a Database Company

November 29, 2018 by Nathaniel Avery in Conferences

I thought I knew ahead of time what some of the stories coming out of re:invent would be. I expected some new instance types, some price changes, and maybe some announcements around serverless compute workloads. That plan changed when Amazon’s Andy Jassay spoke out against Oracle and SQL Server during his AWS re:invent keynote. His statements made me take another look at the updates to Amazon’s database that allowed him to speak in such a manner.

Looking Forward : Amazon re:Invent

November 24, 2018 by Nathaniel Avery in Conferences

AWS is the clear leader in cloud, Microsoft, Google, and even Oracle have recently made attempts to cut into Amazon’s market share. Microsoft has done an admirable job of leveraging enterprise connections coupled with some very nice cloud products to emerge has a worthy challenger. Google recently made some leadership changes at the top which observers of the space find intriguing. Finally, Oracle keeps pushing in terms of price to performance ratios. AWS has to keep the pedal to medal in terms of innovation to keep their lead position.