Links 2020-04-21
On AWS …
- AWS Graviton2 – James Hamilton, Perspectives
I believe there is a high probability we are now looking at what will become the first high volume ARM Server.
- Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances – Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb
For our use case, M6g is superior in every aspect to C5: it costs less on-demand, has more RAM, exhibits lower median and significantly narrower tail latency, and runs cooler with the same proportional workload per host.
- A Detailed Overview of AWS API Gateway – Alex DeBrie
AWS API Gateway is an awesome service to use as an HTTP frontend. […] In this post, you’ll learn the different steps in an API Gateway request. For each step, we’ll see what you should be doing in that step and how it fits in the overall picture.
- How to optimize AWS Lambda performance – Efi Merdler-Kravitz, Lumigo
In this article, we are going to talk about various parameters to be considered for AWS Lambda performance tuning.
- Why is AWS IAM So Hard? – Stephen Kuenzli, #NoDrama DevOps
IAM is really important and it’s really hard for a lot of people, even on good teams with robust processes.
- AWS isn’t killing your business, you just suck at it – Corey Quinn
Companies that currently aren’t thriving love to blame AWS for their problems. But I don’t think the criticism sticks.