A horrifying 1.8 km drop. It must have been terrifying. Just a reminder (for myself) that the "please keep your seatbelt fastened when seated" is a serious, possibly life-saving instruction.

Good AI needs good data and the best people to make the right decisions. Excited to announce the "Now Go Build CTO Fellowship" under the AI for Changemakers by Tech To The Rescue. This fellowship supports visionary tech leaders tackling global challenges! techtotherescue.org/ai-for-changem…

I love it when I can be the "practical voice of reason" for businesses looking into AI. Today, it were aviation customers at the IATA meeting. With almost all the major airlines using #AWS, I can share some great success stories that distinguish reality from wishful thinking.

I have said it before; you have to do the work. Otherwise, it’s just bs. As more builders choose Rust Language to solve hard problems at scale, it felt time to get my hands dirty. Here’s the Distill CLI, a Rust-powered summarization tool: allthingsdistributed.com/2024/06/introd… #aws #tinkering

New research shows running AI workloads on #AWS vs on-prem can reduce carbon emissions by as much as 99%. As system designers, we need to treat sustainability as a tier one non-functional requirement, not as some afterthought. aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-c…

Introducing the Amazon Trusted AI Challenge — University students will compete for cash prizes in a competition to securely advance LLMs that code. #AWS Details at: Amazon Science amazon.science/trusted-ai-cha…

New blog post, on our paper about Aurora Serverless V2 "Resource Management in Aurora Serverless": brooker.co.za/blog/2024/07/2… What I loved about this project was being able to innovate at all levels of the stack, from the hypervisor all the way to region-scale clusters.

"Why TPC is not enough: An analysis of the Amazon Redshift fleet" by Tim Kraska & team at VLDB 2024 amazon.science/publications/w… #AWS

How #AWS tracks the cloud’s biggest security threats and helps shut them down before they happen. aws.amazon.com/blogs/security…

The Australian Swimming team Swimming Australia had great success in the competitions at the Olympics. It is interesting to (re) read how machine learning for real-time training pool analytics, using #AWS Panorama, contributed to their success. aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/ho…

For more than two decades, Amazon has pioneered 'good old-fashioned AI' to transform customer experiences, not chase trends. I sat down with Swami Sivasubramanian at VivaTech — watch our conversation to see how we stay focused on innovation and customers. (aws.amazon.com/careers/life-a…)

Someone asked me "what are your top ten living bands?" Which immediately made me think of my not-living-anymore bands. I really miss Chester's passion and intensity. This is one of the best doc's of Linkin Park (and Jay-Z) youtu.be/7PxHzl8piJY?si…

Growing up, I thought Alain Delon was the pinnacle of cool. RIP.

A fantastic retrospective from #AWS Sr. Principal Engineer Marc Olson, who's been at the heart of scaling #EBS for over a decade. Marc shares hard-won lessons on driving continuous performance improvements - a must-read for cloud infrastructure nerds. allthingsdistributed.com/2024/08/contin…

In Southeast Asia, a new generation of builders are proving that solving hard problems can be profitable. The new #AWS Region in Malaysia will drive innovation from companies like @AerodyneGroup, that use AWS to aid rescue efforts and boost crop yields. allthingsdistributed.com/2024/08/empowe…

The paralympics are spectacular and humbling at so many levels. Amazing athletes who achieve incredible feats in the face of adversity. This 5000m men's final was close all the way to the end.