The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud by David Anderson with Mark McCann and Michael O’Reilly With this post, I’d like to share a new book that got my attention. It’s a book at the intersection of business, technology, and people. This is a great read for anyone who wants to understand how organizations can evolve to maximize the business impact of new technologies and speed up their internal processes. Last year at re:Invent, I had the opportunity to meet David Anderson. As Director of Technology at Liberty Mutual, he drove the technology change when the global insurance company, founded in 1912, moved its services to the cloud and adopted a serverless-first…
Month: February 2023
New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances
We’ve come a long way since the launch of the m1.small instance in 2006, adding instances with additional memory, compute power, and your choice of Intel, AMD, or Graviton processors. The original general-purpose “one size fits all” instance has evolved into six families, each one optimized for specific uses cases, with over 600 generally available instances in all. New M7g and R7g Today I am happy to tell you about the newest Amazon EC2 instance types, the M7g and the R7g. Both types are powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton3 processors, and are designed to deliver up to 25% better performance than the equivalent sixth-generation (M6g and R6g) instances, making them the best performers in EC2. The M7g instances…
Week in Review – February 13, 2023
AWS announced 32 capabilities since we published the last Week in Review blog post a week ago. I also read a couple of other news and blog posts. Here is my summary. The VPC section of the AWS Management Console now allows you to visualize your VPC resources, such as the relationships between a VPC and its subnets, routing tables, and gateways. This visualization was available at VPC creation time only, and now you can go back to it using the Resource Map tab in the console. You can read the details in Channy’s blog post. CloudTrail Lake now gives you the ability to ingest activity events from non-AWS sources. This lets you immutably store and then process activity events…
Watch our new Fixed on Pixel ad ahead of the big game
Google’s Super Bowl ad shows how Pixel is the most helpful phone for editing photos and fixing pictures, even ones taken on other devices. source https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/super-bowl-ad-2023-watch-fixed-on-pixel/