AWS GovCloud Course – 1/12/2012

Instructor: Mark Ryland – Chief Solutions Architect

GovCloud Computing with AWS: “Like a giant baby startup”

AWS grew as an internal Amazon Service. Allowed software developers to focus on software development.

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I’ve been in web hosting since 1995. Back in the day I was the Tech Lead for IRS.gov (1998-2000). We had BIG IRON (hand me down HP K Class servers) from a failed IRS project (Cyberfile). They were so big,  at 14U (24.5 inches tall) and weighed so much (~130 pounds), that we placed 1 server per rack.  We had to build to support all traffic on Tax Day (April 15th). Cloud wasn’t even an idea yet. There were few MSPs and while Akamai CDN was established, IRS was leery of using aan external provider. We had a Cisco Local Director Load Balancer and grew to sipport Geographic Load Balancers (Alteons) in 3 locations. I personally had to forecast peak traffic and we built for peak load.
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Welcome to My Personal Blog.
I will drop things I find interesting in here on occasion.

It likely won’t be a huge amount of content, but it will be here.

Thanks!
David

I’m headed to AWS re:Invent this year. Hooray!!

This is my first time and I’ve been reading everything I can to get a feel for the event. I’ve been to some large conferences before (RSA, HIMSS, Atlassian Summit, etc.) but re:Invent looks to be a very different event.

Below are the the things I am reading to get prepped. I’ll update as I find more.
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The Comic Sans font selection was not my call…

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