John Polacek

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels is quite a character. He talked about how there are so many products and announcements, it can be confusing. “Rapid delivery is in our DNA.” Werner repeated a theme that I had been hearing over and over again at the conference, that Amazon puts the customer at the center of everything they do.

AWS Enterprise Solutions Architect Siva Raghupathy started by stating that 2.7 zettabytes (ZB) of data exists in the digital universe today. There will be 450 billion transactions per day by 2020. Most data is unstructured text...

No question, video is a pain in the butt. I was anxious to find out how AWS can make it less so.

This session was about streamlining sign-in with social login, storing user data and more...

Now more than ever, having performant applications is essential for users. Every year, Forrester does a study showing how much response time a user will tolerate before abandoning an app. Every year that number shrinks, going from 4 seconds to now somewhere less than one second. A 1 second delay results in a 7% revenue loss.

Notes from the keynote of AWS re:Invent, a learning conference. They host a diverse spectrum of companies are startups, mid-size companies and large enterprise.