Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

A set of programming models has emerged to help developers define and train AI models with deep learning; along with open source frameworks that put deep learning in the hands of mere mortals. Some examples of popular deep learning frameworks that we support on AWS include Caffe, CNTK, MXNet, TensorFlow, Theano, and Torch.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

This week Dynatrace achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Competency status in the new Applied Artificial Intelligence (Applied AI) category. The designation reflects AWS’ recognition that Dynatrace has demonstrated deep experience and proven customer success building AI-powered solutions on AWS.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 13, 2023

The VP of database, analytics and machine learning services at AWS, Swami Sivasubramanian, walks me through the broad landscape of generative AI, what we’re doing at Amazon to make large language and foundation models more accessible, and how custom silicon can help to bring down costs, speed up training, and increase energy efficiency for our customers. (..)

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. This is why tens of thousands of French customers already use AWS in Regions around the world.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Last week, I wrote a blog about helping the machine learning scientist community select the right deep learning framework from among many we support on AWS such as MxNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc. Developers can build, test, and deploy chatbots directly from the AWS Management Console.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 10, 2013

I am very excited to announce AWS Activate , a program designed to provide startups with the resources they need to build applications on AWS. Startups will forever be a very important customer segment of AWS. When we launched AWS the original mission was. You can learn more and sign up at AWS Activate.'

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 12, 2017

I am excited to announce that AWS is opening its first Mentor's Office at STATION F in Paris! The Mentor's Office is a workplace exclusively dedicated to meetings between AWS experts and the startups. All year long, AWS experts will deliver technical and business assistance to startups based on campus.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. Most respondents participated in training of some form. Learning new skills and improving old ones were the most common reasons for training, though hireability and job security were also factors.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

One of our guiding principles at AWS is to listen closely to our customers and the feedback that I am getting about our training and certification program is very positive. This is why I’m excited to announce the availability of a new Professional level certification from AWS that has been high on the list of our customers.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Today we are kicking off AWS re:Invent 2013. Over the course of the next three days, we will host more than 200 sessions, training bootcamps, and hands on labs taught by expert AWS staff as well as dozens of our customers. Tune in to hear the latest from AWS and our customers. You can see the full session catalog here.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been working closely with the startup community in London, and Europe, since we launched back in 2006. Both London and Berlin are vibrant cities with a concentration of innovative startups building their businesses on AWS. You can also drop in if you don’t have an appointment.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For example, a CNBC report found that training just one LLM can cost millions of dollars, and then millions more to update. “The team tweaked the Dynatrace [AWS] deployment and automated discrete sizings in Kafka, which helped us save a couple of million dollars,” Dollentz-Scharer said.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. For example, Samsung Electronic Printing used AWS to deploy its Printing Apps Center in a way that didn’t require them to invest up-front capital and kept total costs quite low.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, training on more data means more accurate models. At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. Now, thousands of customers are trying Amazon SageMaker and building ML models on top of their data lakes in AWS.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Research from 2020 suggests that training a single LLM generates around 300,000 kg of carbon dioxide emissions—equal to 125 round-trip flights from New York to London. For example, Dynatrace has been able to view underutilized instances in a specific AWS data center along with top CO2e emitters within a specific host group.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

We thought that reinforcement learning would be a promising approach that could provide great flexibility in the training process. Likewise it has very low requirements on the initial amount of training data. Lerner, as a web-service, relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Netflix’s Open Source Software (OSS) tools.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. There really was an outage and AWS did a great job notifying their users about any service disruptions via their AWS Service Health Dashboard. Ready to learn more? Then read on!

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All Things Distributed

MAY 27, 2015

Over a year ago the AWS team opened a "pop-up loft" in San Francisco at 925 Market Street. The goal of opening the loft was to give developers an opportunity to get in-person support and education on AWS, to network, get some work done, or just hang out with peers. Usually $30 each, these labs are offered for free in the AWS loft.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 17, 2013

AWS re:Invent 2013. The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time. We had worked hard to give you great keynote sessions as well as deep technical content by AWS engineers, partners and customers. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The AWS Loft is all about helping you scale and grow your business by offering free AWS technical resources. The AWS Loft is all about helping you scale and grow your business by offering free AWS technical resources. Take a look at the AWS Loft homepage. What’s Happening at the AWS Loft.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 28, 2015

An important way of engaging with AWS customers is through the AWS Global Summit Series. All AWS Summits feature a keynote address highlighting the latest announcements from AWS and customer testimonials, technical sessions led by AWS engineers, and hands-on technical training.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, training on more data means more accurate models. At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. In machine learning, more is usually more.

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The Symphonia

JANUARY 21, 2019

We even put CI/CD front and center in our training courses ?—?we Since we use so many AWS services in our work, it makes sense that we also consider AWS tools for CI/CD. What are the AWS Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools? You can think of it as the AWS version of Travis.

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Percona

AUGUST 21, 2023

Bug fixes and improvements introduced in MongoDB and included in Percona Distribution for MongoDB include the ability to configure AWS STS endpoint , enablement of automatic of retry time series insert on DuplicateKey error, and automated Point-in-time recovery from physical backups. See the release notes for a full list. Community Edition.

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High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

Learn the stuff they don't teach you in the AWS docs. Filter out the distracting hype, and focus on the parts of AWS that you'd be foolish not to use. Learn the Good Parts of AWS. Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Learn how to train interviewers so everyone's on the same page.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. Some of them are awful. Second: Copilot was trained on the body of code in GitHub. First, we wondered about code quality.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Though the AWS Cloud gives you access to the storage and processing power required for ML, the process for building, training, and deploying ML models has unique challenges that often block successful use of this powerful new technology. The challenges begin with collecting, cleaning, and formatting training data.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

My talks on Failing Over Without Falling Over are still very relevant, but AWS did finally release a key new service that implements key parts of the architecture: AWS Route 53 Application Recovery Controller. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. Dynatrace news. What is Azure Functions? Making the best use of Azure Functions.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

These were the opening words of my 2019 [AWS re:Invent talk], which I followed by demonstrating rapid on-the-fly dynamic instrumentation of the Intel wireless driver. Teaching others is another passion of mine – it's what drives me to write books, create training materials, and write blog posts here.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

You can now train CIFAR10 for just $0.06 The R5a, M5a and T3a instances purportedly will offer a 10% price-to-performance advantage over AWS's other cloud instances. Proposals whose "blockchain" would need to add 1GB/hour, that sort of thing. and ImageNet for $12.60 (4x less than in April!): [link].

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