Tech Workers Berlin are protesting the AWS Summit to demand that Amazon drop Project Nimbus, a 1.2 billion dollar contract with the murderous 'israeli' government and military.
They state:
We are workers in the tech industry who are outraged that Amazon and Google are providing the digital infrastructure for Israeli apartheid. With Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google have made it easier for the Israeli government to surveil Palestinians, force them off their land, and kill them.
Over 35,000 Gazans have already been killed in this AI-assisted genocide and Amazon is profiting. We will not stop organizing until Amazon stops profiting from genocide! We demand #NoTechForApartheid!
Just a brief reminder that every #AWS VM/container/etc you give a public #IPv4#IP address to now costs you $3.65/month more than in 2023. AWS charges per IP-address per-hour.
But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.
@krupo@mainframed767@pluralistic It's getting so bad that even #Amazon#AWS mail gets reliably sent to spam. The few that do escape Gmail's spam filter have a really big and scary red banner saying "THIS LOOKS LIKE A PHISHING E-MAIL".
Today's the last day of my Python AWS FinTech contract -- so I'm ready, willing and able to serve all of your Python and infrastructural needs!
Got an office in Exeter, Devon? Cool! Remote/UK works for you? Even better! Couple of days? Couple of months? I'll do whatever it takes to pay the rent! Anyone need a coffee?
@troublewithwords Amazon putting ads on Prime Video is a textbook case of what @pluralistic calls #enshittification: “OK, we've got you where we want you, so now we'll start making the product worse & sucking more money out of it.”
AMZN seems to be doubling-down hard on the whole enshittification strategy: from turning their storefront into a pay-to-play search engine for cheap crap, to amped-up Kindle DRM lock-in, to ads on Prime Video, it's an across-the-board effort.
The {s3fs} @rstats 📦 “provides a file-system like interface into Amazon Web Services for R. It utilizes paws SDKand R6 for its core design. This repo has been inspired by Python’s s3fs, however its API and implementation has been developed to follow R’s fs.” By Dyfan Jones #AWS@rstats
Звернувся клієнт зі скаргою на великі рахунки за використання сервісу маніпуляції медіа файлів https://cloudinary.com
Виявилось, що сервіс хостить файли на #AWS та перепродає трафік #Amazon з непоганою націнкою.
Запропонував взяти сервер у #Hetzner з безлімітним трафіком та зробити там кєш сервер за допомогою #nginx.
Вдалося зменшити трафік від #Cloudinary з 2-3Tb до 12-20Gb на день. Це дозволило зменшити місячний рахунок на 6000-8000 USD
For those of you using cfn-lint to lint your #AWS#CloudFormation templates, you might want to update to 0.79.11 if you find linting a file takes many minutes.
For those of you on #AWS and needing to do that #RDS CA certificate update, unless you are using horribly outdated database versions, only MS SQL Server seems to require a restart. The others, e.g. MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL generally are fine without.
As always, double check with the aws rds describe-db-engine-versions and look for SupportsCertificateRotationWithoutRestart in the JSON output.
And talking about #AWS — if you ever are troubleshooting permission issues, do use Policy Simulator (https://policysim.aws.amazon.com/) to do some preliminary debugging first.