John Polacek

Notes from the AWS 2nd Annual Startup Launches.

For me, this was the best session of the conference so far. Joey Parsons, Head of Operations at Flipboard gave a talk about how they grew the company from their first user through to today.

This session was about the new [Workspaces][1] product that Amazon launched at the first day AWS re:Invent keynote. First he covered what customer problems they hope to solve with this...

Nike has a similar setup to AuctionsByCellular with a Java stack built on top of AWS, deploying with Elastic Beanstalk (EBS). They went over their EBS deployment process and how they configure their environment.

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...