aws



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  • 2020-10-30

    Listened to [[Alex Danco]] on [[The North Star]]here. His thoughts on [[aws]] are very interesting

  • 2020-10-30
    • From a security standpoint, it makes more sense for the government to use [[aws]] than to run their own data center. [[aws]] has centralized the best talent in security, as opposed to forcing each customer to apply best practices on their own. Centralizing talent is why cloud providers have become so popular. Security is also a really hard problem that most people wish they could ignore. Putting the most talented people on one team to work on security for everyone seems like a good idea.
  • 2020-10-30
    • From a security standpoint, it makes more sense for the government to use [[aws]] than to run their own data center. [[aws]] has centralized the best talent in security, as opposed to forcing each customer to apply best practices on their own. Centralizing talent is why cloud providers have become so popular. Security is also a really hard problem that most people wish they could ignore. Putting the most talented people on one team to work on security for everyone seems like a good idea.
  • 2020-10-30
    • [[aws]] Lambda, or "serverless" is the first step toward cloud providers removing enormous amount of friction for users. Lambda, and other services like it, allow users to scale code without worrying about infrastructure. This follows the same trend as [[codesandbox]]. Services that remove development friction and allow more focus on creative problems will continue to gain momentum and popularity.
  • 2020-10-30
    • [[aws]] is a concrete example of a platform. All of the api's for each service are externally programmable. It is an environment in and of itself, and each service has it's own api. Teams in amazon don't have some special version of aws. They eat their own dogfood. In the short term, this requires more work, because there are some short cuts they could take to allow internal customers to use their service sooner. However, this approach is a huge advantage in the long term as every service they create has an "on switch," so at any point they can make it external and it's completely ready.
  • 2020-10-31

    The same principles apply to [[aws]], and explain by they have a big incentive to contribute to [[open source]]. If they help commoditize open source software, then the demand for services to host that software increases.

  • 2020-11-01
  • 2020-11-01
    • [[aws]] has been so successful with this because every new team or product they built is externally programmable by design.

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