Preamble A while back I was lucky enough to work on a Data Hub solution for a global logistics firm. I’ll be honest, I knew very little about the subject at the beginning, but I think I picked stuff up fairly well and quickly and delivered some okay stuff. While working on it I learned…
Another not sexy but actually cool new feature – AZ failure simulation. What and how and why? AWS’s Fault Injection System has been around a while, allowing you to trigger system issues and failures. This is the sort of thing Netflix made famous with their Chaos Monkeys – we can randomly terminate instances, max out…
A recent news item got me reading on new S3 features, and I discovered one I’d missed. Here we go. S3 Express One Zone Faster, cheaper data retrieval single AZ S3. Why? Why not? Firstly here’s the announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-express-one-zone-high-performance-storage-class/ Pros FasterThis really is lower latency. If you’ve a whole bunch of systems needing to access…