Corey QuinnGood morning; it's time for Adam Selipsky's #awsreinvent keynote. I'm here at Sugarcane thanks to the fine folks at MongoDB, and I'm about to see whether or not this keynote is going to get me into "15 shots of whiskey, please" territory before 9AM.
Adam Selipsky walks on to "Sweet Child of Mine." I just lost $5; I was sure it'd be "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." On balance, this is why he's the CEO and I'm the gadfly...
The annual "AWS Customer Eye Chart, Automotive Edition" slide.
Honestly at this point it'd be visually cleaner and easier on the team to just put up the dozen or so companies on the planet who aren't using AWS.
"Why is all of this happening on AWS?" Because a lot of your competition was asleep at the wheel and still oh so very clearly DOES NOT GET THEIR CUSTOMERS, if I'm being honest. I wish it was otherwise; I don't want there to be only one reasonable choice to build upon; competition benefits everyone.
Talking about the AZ separation model. What a fantastic waste of money; why not just slap a pair of racks into a burned out warehouse and call it a day like Azure does?
(The entire AWS global infrastructure is an oft-overlooked but incredible differentiator.)
S3 Intelligent Tiering has saved customers over $2 billion.
Honestly, based upon what I've seen I'm surprised it's not more. That service has gotten awesomely cost efficient since launch; it should probably be your default storage class unless you're doing something "special."
Allan Chow@Quinnypig but Corey. We're ALL special.