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What Is AWS DMS And Why You Shouldn’t Use It As An ELT

Seattle Data Guy

Recently, I’ve encountered a few projects that used AWS DMS, which is almost like an ELT solution. Whether it was moving data from a local database instance to S3 or some other data storage layer. It was interesting to see AWS DMS used in this manner. But it’s not what DMS was built for.

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Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP

The Pragmatic Engineer

13 June 2023: AWS. The largest AWS region (us-east-1) degraded heavily for 3 hours, impacting 104 AWS services. We did a deepdive into this incident earlier in AWS’s us-east-1 outage. We’ll also learn how this article contributed to AWS publishing its first public postmortem in two years!

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Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Jia Zhan, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest Sachin Holla, Principal Solution Architect, AWS Summary Pinterest is a visual search engine and powers over 550 million monthly active users globally. Pinterests infrastructure runs on AWS and leverages Amazon EC2 instances for its compute fleet. 4xl with up to 12.5 4xl with up to 12.5

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Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing

The Pragmatic Engineer

There is an increasing number of cloud providers offering the ability to rent virtual machines, the largest being AWS, GCP, and Azure. A startup called Spare Cores attempts to help compare prices between AWS, GCP, Azure and Hetzner by monitoring offerings in close to realtime. Each benchmarking task is evaluated sequentially.

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AWS RDS PostgreSQL Setup

Start Data Engineering

RDS AWS RDS is a managed service provided by AWS to run a relational database. We will see how to setup a postgres instance using AWS RDS. Log in to your AWS account. Go to Services -> RDS Click on Create Database, In the Create Database prompt, choose Standard Create option with PostgreSQL as engine type.

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AWS Shared Responsibility Model – Amazon Web Services

Edureka

Understanding the AWS Shared Responsibility Model is essential for aligning security and compliance obligations. The model delineates the division of labor between AWS and its customers in securing cloud infrastructure and applications. Let us begin by defining the Shared Responsibility Model and its core purpose in the AWS ecosystem.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

After Zynga, he rejoined Amazon, and was the General Manager (GM) for Compute services at AWS, and later chief of staff, and advisor to AWS executives like Charlie Bell and Andy Jassy (Amazon’s current CEO.) We dabbled in network engineering, database management, and system administration. were in english only.