Hacker News with Generative AI: AWS

AWS Management Console supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts (amazon.com)
Today, AWS announces multi-session support, which enables AWS customers to access multiple AWS accounts simultaneously in the AWS Console.
AWS, Cloud Computing, Security, User Interface, Software
7 points by dbaupp 1 day ago | 0 comments
How we saved millions on AWS (forter.com)
In early 2022, as the world was emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation surged to multi-decade highs, prompting central banks to raise interest rates.
Cloud Computing, AWS, Cost Optimization, Business
44 points by omervk 11 days ago | 8 comments
Harnessing 3200 Gbps Network: A Journey with RDMA, EFA, and Libfabric (le.qun.ch)
Earlier this year, I had the fortune of joining Perplexity AI, where I finally got to use servers with the most powerful configuration—AWS p5 instances equipped with 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs interconnected via NVSwitch. What excited me even more was the ultra-high-speed 3200 Gbps network between servers. I thought it would be incredibly cool if I could write a program that could utilize this full 3200 Gbps bandwidth!
Networking, Programming, Artificial Intelligence, AWS
11 points by abcdabcd987 15 days ago | 0 comments
A combo of ChatGPT and spot EC2 instances screwed me over (ycombinator.com)
Hey guys, <p>I thought this was a pretty funny story and just wanted to rant a bit about it.
Cloud Computing, Generative AI, Humor, AWS
49 points by YoungGato 16 days ago | 28 comments
Show HN: I built open source file sharing solution using AWS S3 (kinsta.app)
Configure S3 Settings
Open Source, File Sharing, AWS, Cloud Storage
63 points by rohitghumare 19 days ago | 36 comments
Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate (theregister.com)
Keeping track of the amount of cloudy resources an org uses, and the cost of doing so, is notoriously tricky – so tricky, indeed, that even Netflix isn't on top of it.
Cloud Computing, Cost Management, Netflix, AWS
10 points by thunderbong 31 days ago | 2 comments
And That's a Wrap (amazon.com)
After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog.
Amazon, Blogging, News, AWS
5 points by mooreds 31 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: Performing a zero downtime major version upgrade on RDS Aurora Postgres (medplum.com)
Medplum is built on Postgres. Until recently, our hosted Medplum service was using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) RDS Aurora Postgres cluster running version 12.16. Since v12 is rather outdated and nearing the end of its standard support window on RDS, it was time to plan our upgrade to the newest version available on RDS, v16.4.
AWS, Databases, Postgres, Software
15 points by mattlong 39 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: Guard – LLM agent that scans your AWS account for misconfigs (guard.dev)
Detect AWS misconfigurations in real-time and fix them with AI-driven, actionable insights.
Security, AWS, AI, Cloud Computing, Open Source
9 points by shehbaj 45 days ago | 0 comments
S3 Tables (meltware.com)
AWS announced S3 Tables yesterday, which brings native support for Apache Iceberg to S3. It’s hard to overstate how exciting this is for the data analytics ecosystem.
AWS, Data Analytics, Apache Iceberg, Cloud Storage
43 points by pongogogo 45 days ago | 2 comments
New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster (amazon.com)
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a secure physical location where you can bring your storage devices and upload data faster to the AWS Cloud.
AWS, Cloud Computing, Data Transfer, Hardware
48 points by vinni2 47 days ago | 47 comments
Making AWS News stupid fast with smart caching (lucvandonkersgoed.com)
As I’m typing this, Re:Invent 2024 is only weeks away. In anticipation of https://aws-news.com‘s busiest period of the year, I redesigned the API access patterns to support very effective caching. This resulted in significantly reduced backend load and a much faster frontend.
AWS, Caching, Web Development, Performance Optimization
50 points by tatersolid 49 days ago | 17 comments
S3 Express Append has issues (astradot.com)
AWS is clearly gearing up to make S3 Express a potential alternative to EBS disks. Like EBS, S3 Express is single zone. Earlier this year, AWS added the conditional write primitive to both S3 and S3 Express. Now it has released the ability to append to objects in S3 Express.
AWS, Storage, S3, Cloud Computing, Performance
14 points by pdeva1 55 days ago | 4 comments
AWS will pay devs to verify Rust standard library (devclass.com)
AWS, in collaboration with the Rust Foundation, is crowdsourcing an effort to verify the Rust standard library, by setting out a series of challenges for devs and offering financial rewards for solutions.
AWS, Rust, Programming, Open Source, Crowdsourcing
15 points by LinuxBender 57 days ago | 0 comments
Rust Foundation Collaborates with AWS to Verify Rust Standard Libraries (rust-lang.org)
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a collaborative initiative aimed at verifying the safety of the Rust standard libraries.
Rust, Programming Languages, Security, Cloud Computing, AWS
7 points by mjb 58 days ago | 0 comments
AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it (allthingsdistributed.com)
SEATTLE – (Nov XX, 2014) – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the introduction of AWS Lambda, the simplest way to run code in the cloud.
AWS, Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, History, Amazon
4 points by danielklnstn 59 days ago | 0 comments
AWS Lambda PR/FAQ After 10 Years (allthingsdistributed.com)
SEATTLE – (Nov XX, 2014) – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the introduction of AWS Lambda, the simplest way to run code in the cloud.
AWS, Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing
25 points by mlhpdx 64 days ago | 12 comments
Amazon S3 now supports up to 1M buckets per AWS account (amazon.com)
Amazon S3 has increased the default bucket quota from 100 to 10,000 per AWS account. Additionally, any customer can request a quota increase up to 1 million buckets.
Cloud Computing, AWS, Storage
14 points by belter 64 days ago | 9 comments
I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100 (elliott-king.github.io)
A few months ago, I was adapting an official guide for an AWS service. Specifically, integrating OpenSearch with Amplify. I worked through the guide, and modified and debugged it for my own purposes. A few weeks later, I received an AWS bill for over $1200, and almost had a heart attack. I hadn’t selected the most expensive OS instance type. I hadn’t even used it much at all.
AWS, Cloud Computing, Costs, Software Development, Open Source
461 points by thunderbong 65 days ago | 276 comments
AWS BuilderCards (amazon.com)
AWS BuilderCards, 2nd Edition, is a fun and educational deckbuilding card game, designed to teach how different AWS services work together to build well-architected workloads.
AWS, Games, Education, Cloud Computing
22 points by Seb-C 67 days ago | 11 comments
SST: Container Support (sst.dev)
Historically, SST has primarily supported deploying serverless applications. But over the last month we’ve slowly expanded native support for containers on AWS.
Serverless, Containers, AWS
158 points by icar 68 days ago | 69 comments
Malicious PyPI package with 37,000 downloads steals AWS keys (bleepingcomputer.com)
A malicious Python package named 'fabrice' has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers.
Security, Python, Cloud Security, AWS, Malware
10 points by sandwichsphinx 69 days ago | 0 comments
WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill (recall.ai)
IPC is something that is rarely top-of-mind when it comes to optimising cloud costs. But it turns out that if you IPC 1TB of video per second on AWS it can result in enormous bills when done inefficiently.
Cloud Computing, AWS, Costs, Optimization
362 points by tosh 72 days ago | 231 comments
AWS data center latencies, visualized (benjdd.com)
AWS data center latencies
AWS, Data Centers, Visualization, Performance
529 points by orliesaurus 86 days ago | 209 comments
AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner (learn.umh.app)
Why We Recommend Hetzner to Try Out the UMH: it is at least 4x–10x less expensive than AWS and Azure for similar VM instances.
Cloud Computing, Cost Comparison, AWS, Azure, Hetzner
131 points by JeremyTheo 89 days ago | 138 comments
AWS Has a Moral Responsibility to Fix the Free Tier (2022) (lastweekinaws.com)
The AWS Free Tier makes it too easy to rack up massive surprise bills. If AWS doesn't fix free tier, the company is certain to face tragic consequences.
Cloud Computing, AWS, Ethics, Business
6 points by phewlink 92 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: AWS registering MFA will be required in 29 days (ycombinator.com)
When signing into our AWS console this morning we noticed this security popup - "Registering MFA will be required in 29 days".
Security, AWS, Cloud Computing, Two-Factor Authentication
7 points by herodoturtle 99 days ago | 15 comments
Is AWS S3 having an outage? (ycombinator.com)
AWS status https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status shows all green but I am having internal server errors returned from S3. Anyone else having this issue? Downdetector has spike for AWS outage coincidentally https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
AWS, Cloud Computing, Outage, Internet Services
93 points by GGO 102 days ago | 44 comments
Show HN: Sendune – The Email Platform for Anyone Using AWS SES (ycombinator.com)
Just over two months ago, we shared our open source HTML email designer here and it very quickly hit the front-page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41007403.
Email, AWS, Open Source, Software
11 points by samdung 113 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Deploy Next.js Apps to AWS Lambda (scaffoldly.dev)
In this guide, we'll go through the steps to deploy a new Next.js application to AWS Lambda using the scaffoldly CLI. You'll have a fully functional, serverless Next.js app running on AWS in no time!
Serverless, AWS, Next.js, Deployment, Tools
14 points by cnuss 114 days ago | 3 comments