Chris Ibbitson

Principal Solutions Architect - Global FinServ @awscloud. Like to tweet about Cloud, FinTech, innovation, travel, food/drink, rugby! Opinions are my own.

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Another day, and another slow running @lner train due to other slow running trains. Whilst the delay is “only” 15 mins it is still a probably throwing a train load of people plans out of whack. Rant over.

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Not too shabby beef chilli and jacket potato on the train back north this evening !

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

@Ginger_Tucci Blacklock? Hawksmoor?

[Amazon @amazon]

Introducing TorchNeuron, a new open-source tool that lets developers take their PyTorch code and run it on @awscloud Trainium chips, no rewrite required.

85% of AI researchers and developers write their code in PyTorch, and now, with TorchNeuron, the tools developers already use to test, debug, and scale their models all work on Trainium without modification. Teams building everything from voice AI to drug-discovery models are already using it. ⬇️

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Love this @geekwire piece with @darkosubotica ! Always admired the retro tech and books… it’s a nice Saturday read! https://t.co/evcqDo0yF7

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Great to experience an evening with @BarackObama last night in Manchester. Interesting, inspirational and pretty candid in parts too!

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Good morning London 👋🇬🇧#viewfrommyseat

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Love it when I see ex-colleagues land awesome jobs!

[FinTech Futures @FinTech_Futures]

Lloyds names HSBC's Jane Gilmour new CTO dlvr.​it/TVtFYc

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Ha I’ll let you pay next time !

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

✈️ AUS > LHR

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Tried @robotaxi yesterday for the first time. Very cool!

[Francessca Vasquez @Francessca_V]

More personalization for fans everywhere. Had a chance to sit down with the @NBA and @CNBC on the future of AI in sports and the league. @awscloud is excited to be the official cloud and AI partner of the league.
https://t.co/bm2aZKK7vP

[AWS Newsroom @AWSNewsroom]

AWS SVP and CFO John Felton spoke with @FortuneMagazine's Sheryl Estrada about how AI adoption is shifting from productivity gains to rethinking what the business can do. One example from inside AWS: the pricing team turned an 18-tab Excel model into a chatbot for evaluating customer deals through natural language. https://t.co/Na48QNjVwP

[Swami Sivasubramanian @SwamiSivasubram]

Sat down with @BradPorter_ for the latest episode of Deployed. We talked about what separates the organizations getting real value from AI agents from the ones still figuring it out, and why the biggest bottleneck right now isn't the technology. The teams pulling ahead aren't always better tools, they've changed how they operate. Thanks for having me on ➡️ https://t.co/QUQ8gqpF4N

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Love the Prime Day stats - some mind boggling numbers there !!

[Channy Yun(윤석찬)☁️ @channyun]

As always, Amazon Prime Day 2026 was powered by AWS☁️. Here are mind-blowing metrics in this year:

✨During Amazon Prime Day 2026, AWS Graviton powered up to 49% of the Amazon EC2 compute used by Amazon sites.

✨Amazon EBS, our high-performance block storage service, peaked at over 24.8 trillion I/O operations, moving over an exabyte of data daily.

✨AWS Lambda handled over 2.3 trillion invocations per day during Prime Day 2026.

✨Amazon ECS launched an average of 158.3 million tasks per day on AWS Fargate, representing a 47.7 percent increase from the previous year’s Prime Day average.

✨Amazon CloudFront delivered over 2.1 trillion HTTP requests during the global week of Prime Day 2026, a 5 percent increase in total requests compared to Prime Day 2025.

✨Amazon DynamoDB processed over 59 trillion requests. DynamoDB maintained high availability while delivering single-digit millisecond responses and peaking at 192 million requests per second.

✨Amazon Aurora processed hundreds of billions of transactions, stored 5,491 terabytes of data, and transferred 1,194 terabytes of data.

✨Amazon ElastiCache peaked at serving over 2.3 quadrillion daily requests and 2.1 trillion requests in a minute.

✨Amazon Kinesis Data Streams processed a peak of 988 million records per second during Prime Day 2026.

✨Amazon SNS delivered 5 trillion messages in a single day during Prime Day 2026.

✨Amazon SQS received a peak of 213 million messages per second during Prime Day 2026

✨AWS CloudTrail processes billions of API activity events per day for governance, compliance, and operational auditing. During Prime Day 2026, that volume surged to 3.6 trillion events in just four days, a 44% increase over Prime Day 2025.

✨Amazon CloudWatch processed over 2.15 quadrillion metric observations per day during Prime Day 2026.

✨ Amazon GuardDuty monitored an average of 14.08 trillion log events per hour, a 59% increase from last year’s Prime Day.

✨AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) ran over 44,000 AWS FIS experiments – more than six times what we conducted in 2025 – to help ensure Amazon sites remains highly available on Prime Day.

To learn more, visit https://t.co/TTRJDnTE6w

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

Nice starting the day with a steady run in the cool sunshine along the Colorado River in Austin

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

@amspoke Pretty good tbh! Way better than what they have on most of the aircraft.

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

First time on a BA flight that actually has Starlink installed!

[Chris Ibbitson @ibbitsc]

✈️ LHR > AUS

[Matt Garman @mattsgarman]

AI needs 2-3x more networking bandwidth. @awscloud has doubled network capacity in three years and will double again by 2027. A lot of the work to make that possible starts in the Network Product Development lab: https://t.co/F10Z5NrKOw