News

  • 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.

  • InfoQ – November 2024

    From Aurora Serverless v2 scaling to zero to ten years of AWS Lambda, from Cloudflare advocating for wider adoption of the security.txt standard to PostgreSQL 17: a recap of my news pieces for InfoQ in November. Read the full article.

  • AWS CN-UG Amarathon Geek Talk

    I am glad to be part of the AWS CN-UG Amarathon Geek Talk, a 12-hour online event hosted by the CN-UG (AWS China User Group). My short talk will be about Amazon S3 and include a short journey around the world and cloud regions. Read the full article.

  • Designing Cloud Applications for Elasticity and Resilience

    What is resilience by design? Why is elasticity important? In this 60-minute live roundtable, four expert panelists will explore the key concepts of elasticity and resilience from the perspective of cloud applications. Read the full article.

  • InfoQ – October 2024

    From AWS Console-to-Code to Cloudflare Ephemeral IDs, from Valkey 8.0 to Amazon EC2 Graviton4 instances, the news I covered for InfoQ in October. Read the full article.

  • InfoQ – September 2024

    From Pipe Syntax in SQL to Storage Browser for S3, from open source licenses to AWS CodeBuild, the news I covered for InfoQ in September. Read the full article.