Marc Olson

Not the beer... Making clouds (I may work for AWS, but everything here is my own and does not represent the views, opinions, etc. of AWS).

[Marc Olson @molson]

@spleenlessdemas @anaceballos_ Showing the Empire State Building with its antennas and Willis without is a choice.

[Marc Olson @molson]

Start your #AWSreInvent off with a good foundation in storage performance. Grab a coffee and join Jody and me as we talk through how to design and optimize your workloads on EBS! STG319, today @ 9am! https://t.co/OeIhHzG6Ju

[Marc Olson @molson]

If you're looking for something for your Saturday morning coffee reading queue, this is a fun read that challenges you to think about the tension between velocity and simplicity, even in your own systems--not just those at the scale of S3.

Enjoy!

[Werner Vogels @Werner]

On #PiDay (Amazon S3's 19th birthday), @andywarfield takes us through S3's evolution from simple object store to sophisticated data platform. A fascinating look at how customer feedback shapes our services and how we maintain simplicity at massive scale. https://t.co/LO2BHjrwB7

[Marc Brooker @MarcJBrooker]

New blog post, with my personal take on our launch of Amazon Aurora DSQL: https://t.co/LArgnjTYDp

[Swami Sivasubramanian @SwamiSivasubram]

Peter DeSantis' Monday Night Live has been an #AWSreInvent conference favorite for a while. His deep dive into our @awscloud engineering is a great way to start this week of learning.

I enjoyed sharing my personal keynote notes last year and I’ll continue doing the same this week—here’s what stood out to me from Peter’s talk:

[Marc Olson @molson]

EBS celebrated it's 16th birthday earlier this week and next week I'll celebrate my 13th anniversary at AWS. I took some time to reflect on our journey from humble beginnings to what we are today. I hope you enjoy! https://t.co/9ufTXAbBqg

[Giorgio Bonfiglio @g_bonfiglio]

Starting yesterday evening, AWS customers can recover their EC2 Instances affected by the CrowdStrike event at scale and in a fully automated way.

If you're still stuck and running on AWS, you should try it!

https://t.co/4qEZ8JdE4z

[Marc Olson @molson]

Reviving an old thread, but finally we're starting to see progress from the FAA. Hopefully they won't pervert this into another gotcha, but happy that pilots struggling with mental health issues can get treated without impacting their career.
https://t.co/VJazOBfqh7

[Marc Olson @molson]

I feel like one thing that's lost in all the rhetoric is true root cause analysis. 1/9

[Marc Olson @molson]

May is mental health awareness month. Can we all rally around making it less of a stigma and get to the root cause of our violence problems?

If you know someone hurting, reach out to them, support them, and encourage them to get help. We're in this together. 9/9

[Marc Olson @molson]

@wsdot_traffic It's been almost a month. When can we expect traffic to return to normal? Surely you have a contract and a timeline by now.

[Marc Olson @molson]

@reInventParties @AWSreInvent Total of 55 miles (88.5 km) and 104,889 steps

[Marc Olson @molson]

@awsgeek Nap. I wish I had time for one today...

[Marc Olson @molson]

@MarcJBrooker As I was walking down the street one day.... https://t.co/1edskUtBbq

[Marc Olson @molson]

Ah #reinvent...

If anyone is in Vegas this week, let's meet up. I'm thinking maybe some offices hours at a watering hole on Wednesday.

[Marc Olson @molson]

I don't have my full schedule yet, but I typically set aside some time for ad hoc conversations outside of EBCs. If there's enough interest, I'll find a spot to hold "office hours," too. Reach out to me if you're interested in meeting up.

[Marc Olson @molson]

It's less than two weeks to #reinvent2023. I've got one talk on Monday (STG331), but more importantly, I'm interested in meeting our customers to talk about how they're using AWS storage services (and specifically EBS), and how we can do better.

[Marc Brooker @MarcJBrooker]

I think the mistake people make is thinking that the dragon won't eat them, and they'll be able to do other things after writing their own database. That, mostly, turns out to be wrong.

[Marc Olson @molson]

95. Math is hard.

[Marc Olson @molson]

It's 97 days until #reinvent. It's dark. The session catalog is up. I'm wearing sunglasses.

STG331.

Hit it.

https://t.co/1PDWxpTBiB

[Marc Olson @molson]

EBS launched on 2008-08-20. Next year it can drive. Amazing how time flies.

[Adam Selipsky @aselipsky]

This month, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is celebrating 15 years of pushing boundaries to deliver reliable, high-performance block storage for our customers.

I had a chance to celebrate with some Amazon EBS team members, including one engineer who worked on the original code with several others when EBS launched in 2008. Shout out to @MarcJBrooker! Marc spent his first two weeks on the job reviewing code for the new service.

The team and I took a trip back in time to mark the 15-year milestone, remembering animated discussions with our colleague Matt Garman, who was the first product manager at @awscloud and defined the original customer experience for EBS.

We recalled how, at one point, we debated if buying two racks of servers for EBS was too much. Little did we know at the time just how big this was going to be. Fast forward to today. EBS handles more than 100 trillion input/output operations every day!

Over the years, customers have pushed us in many new directions that we couldn't have imagined. What hasn't changed is how carefully we listen to deliver what they need.

There are so many great stories about building EBS and the origins of the cloud. You can hear the history directly from Matt at AWS Storage Day.➡️
https://t.co/zqUHnMaUhP