Category: cloud

  • Amazon S3 Around the World in 15 Buckets #DataPopkorn 2025

    Let’s play a replication game on the cloud with Amazon S3. In this short talk, we will follow an S3 object on a 16-replication journey around the world, encountering surprising challenges, and learning one thing or two. Read the full article.

  • Data Popkorn 2025

    Around the world with Amazon S3, in just a five-minute talk. See you soon online at Data Popkorn 2025!

  • InfoQ – February 2025

    Here are the articles I wrote for InfoQ in February 2025, covering everything from ransomware on Amazon S2 to the GLIDE Valkey client, from the benefits of ARM Instances to FerretDB v2.0. Read the full article.

  • AWS Community Day Italy 2025

    See you soon. In Milan. Read the full article.

  • InfoQ – January 2025

    From Apache Hudi 1.0 to the latest controversies in the database world, from AWS Glue 5.0 to data transfer terminals, here are the articles I wrote for InfoQ in January 2025. Read the full article.

  • Around the World in 15 Buckets

    Today, we’ll embark on a little journey around the world using S3. We’ll copy various objects across AWS regions worldwide, aiming to answer two simple questions: Does the storage class affect the speed? How does the size of the object influence the transfer time? Read the full article.

  • S3 Lifecycle or Intelligent-Tiering? Object Size Always Matters

    Whenever you develop your logic with Lifecycle Rules or you delegate the logic to the S3 Intelligent-Tiering class, the average size of your objects on S3 is a significant factor in your storage costs. Read the full article.