awsthro00945

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by awsthro00945 5y ago
>It also speaks to inner AWS turmoil at least at DynamoDB. How? Rick wasn't part of the DynamoDB service team. He wasn't an engineer, nor a manager on the team, nor even a product manager. He was a salesperson that specialized
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
No, I haven't. There are thousands of reinvent sessions every year. I don't watch them all (I don't watch hardly any of them, and most people I know in Amazon watch a couple breakout sessions if that. Some don't even wat
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
There are over a thousand breakout sessions at every reinvent every year. Some of the speakers are sales people, some are engineers, some are managers. There are L5 or junior engineers who give reinvent session talks. It's a fun gig, b
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
I think I've seen you post something similar on r/aws about how Rick was "top DynamoDb person at AWS" (apologies if that wasn't you). I think you are overestimating Rick's "rank". I just looked him up
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
>No one uses DynamoDB alone Almost every single team at Amazon that I can think of off the top of my head uses DynamoDB (or DDB + S3) as its sole data store. I know that there are teams out there using relational DBs as well (especiall
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
In any serious security design, "the attacker probably won't do that" would and should be shot down immediately. If your security strategy is hoping that an attacker will be kind enough to not exploit your open vulnerability,
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
"the attacker probably won't do that" is not a security control.
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Why are you assuming that a determined attacker doesn't control your L4 stack? MITMs are a threat, your network could be compromised, routers (especially consumer routers) are rife with vulnerabilities. This is the entire reason "
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
"My logs and firewall are less cluttered" is not at all the correct metric to measure the security of your box. IP address spoofing is a thing. Blocking CIDR ranges might protect you from low-effort, drive-by botnets that constant
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
That's not the point. There was a selloff in December. How crypto fared compared to anything else at any time period is irrelevant.
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Humanity "continuing" or "moving on" naturally due to the passage of time (which will be quite a long time) is a completely different thing than humanity "choosing" to move on. Your original comments imply&#x2F
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
You're still not understanding. We are not "waiting". Waiting implies that we are making some type of conscious choice to put things on hold. But there is no choice. We cannot simply choose to stop waiting. We cannot move o
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
I'll say it again: we cannot move on with it until people are vaccinated. It's not a choice. It's not something where we just say "eh well it looks like it won't get better so let's move on". It physical
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Financial markets are more than just the SP500. The sentence before that is talking about both stock markets and crypto markets. Crypto (BTC specifically, but also others) dropped ~30% in December.
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
This is a false equivalency. Being vaccinated or not is the difference between requiring days/weeks in the hospital or only spending 1-2 days with a mild headache. It's "mildly inconvenienced if you do, damned if you don&#x27
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
It's not that. Like most niche AWS services, this was likely the "pet project" of a major AWS customer that wanted something like this as part of a major business agreement [0]. And then after building it for that customer, A
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
>This a) is not new This specific announcement is new, because this specific announcement is about Outposts in a new, smaller form factor that just went GA today. >One use case is wanting to run the same cloud stack globally, but ha
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Newer fabs like this recycle a huge portion of their water. I did some back of the napkin math a few weeks ago and the amount of water that the fab will be drawing (after accounting for the recycling) will be about the same as the water usa
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
I think the closest you can get is using a VPS like DigitalOcean where you pay $X for a server and there's no autoscaling to worry about. But even with those, if you go over the bandwidth limit (although with DO the bandwidth limit is
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
I think AWS drastically needs to create some type of "sandbox account" flag that severely locks down the services you can use and the amount you can scale up, exactly for reasons like you said. However, I also think a big problem
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
It's stupidly confusing because the regional transfer of 1GB free per month isn't technically part of the "Free Tier" as advertised on this page [0], it's just part of the normal egress pricing model of the individu
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
You're misreading it. Only some parts of the free tier "age out". Other parts of the free tier are free forever (it's really stupidly confusing). The things announced in this announcement are free forever.
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
I really doubt proximity to the ERCOT center has anything to do with it. The new facility isn't close enough at all to the ERCOT center to be on the same grid segment. And with a new facility like this that is in the middle of a field
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
The problem is that your calculations aren't just "grossly simplistic", they completely ignore the cash bonus, which again, is the entire problem. The cash bonus is a core part of the compensation strategy, which means you mu
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Your math seems right, but again you're neglecting the $120k cash bonus in your calculations. >Price of A's RSU on Nov 3 2021 - $3384 * 150 = $507,600 Price of B's RSU on Nov 3 2021 - $3384 * 30 = $101,520 This is the corr
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
The RSU vesting schedule at Amazon is nonstandard but it's not an issue. You may only vest 5% of your RSUs in your first year, but everyone is given a significant monthly cash bonus to make up for it. The compensation strategy at Amazo
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
I doubt it, considering their point about Amazon (the RSU backloading, not the hire-to-fire thing) is a misconception that only someone who has never worked at Amazon would complain about. (probably some of the others too, but I only person
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
> if you haven't worked at a place for longer than 3+ years, they want a detailed explanation why. Interesting. At my FAANG (Amazon) we explicitly are told to not ask this. It would be kind of weird for us to ask that, really, consi
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
I used to agree but after working at Amazon... yes, it really is passed down. There is still large variation per org/team, but there are definitely a lot of things that can permeate all the way down. The way hiring is done, the way per
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
You shouldn't view the RSUs as different from any other compensation package, even just an all-cash package. If Google says they'll give you $200k per year in cash + $400k split over 4 years as RSUs, that's the same as just g

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