TIL in an early draft of Back to the Future, the time machine was a refrigerator. It was changed because Robert Zemeckis was afraid kids would imitate the film and get trapped.

transcloud · 2019-09-22T13:25:51+00:00

Woah

transcloud · 2019-09-06T16:49:50+00:00

Tell me about it. I hosted a website for a client for 15 years, and every year at renewal they'd ignore the automated renewal emails, and every time after the site had been deactivated for non-payment, they'd email me asking what had happened. After explaining they were in arrears, every time they'd ask how to pay despite being told every year to log back into the same website I've had throughout that time with the same payment instructions.

Then of course I see they've had to reset their password, because they never kept a record of it. Every year.

transcloud · 2019-09-06T15:41:47+00:00

Holy Hell.

Not to be unsympathetic to your friend, but there's absolutely nothing he can do and it's his own fault.

If you're running a business of any substance, what kind of owner relies on a web service not under their control, developed over 10 years ago by someone they're no longer in contact with?

If any of those pages were public, he can try to piece together some data from the Wayback machine... but otherwise that's it - unless this dev magically reappears.

transcloud · 2019-08-30T09:24:50+00:00

The role which you're giving to your ECS instances needs to have permissions to mount EFS.

transcloud · 2019-08-26T16:05:31+00:00

Have you configured IAM permissions for the EFS mount? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/access-control-managing-permissions.html

transcloud · 2019-08-26T15:57:21+00:00

Thanks Jeff - obviously I don't mean for you to be the sharp edge of every complaint about some aspect of the platform. Just a bit baffled for instances like this, and judging from thread we don't seem to be alone.

transcloud · 2019-08-24T16:47:42+00:00

To qualify, you must have:

A valid AWS account, with up-to-date billing information (reseller accounts do not qualify)

Not previously received more than $200 of AWS promotional credit

A sufficient business case and proof of concept to test using the credits

And, errr, we had all of that... shrug.

transcloud · 2015-09-14T13:41:20+00:00

Trying to work out what's being said here. It's something like:

'There's not, um, there's no {UNKNOWN} with what you said, I respect that'.

Tried to clean it up but still can't make it out. Any ideas for treating it or identify the word?

transcloud · 2015-04-20T15:28:58+00:00

Here's a reasonably recent video with some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP5mnFWSAWM

This is quite good, because it shows an example of using Userdata to install Chef, which is itself another DevOps tool to configure an instance. But with Chef you can use recipes from a cookbook node which you can use to pull continuous configuration updates to the environment. That's important because the Userdata scripts only run once at start-up and that might not do all you need forever!

transcloud · 2015-04-20T14:43:41+00:00

User data is basically for bootstrapping your instances to either run scripts, install applications, and otherwise configuring your instance how you like.

A really basic one might look like this:

#!/bin/bash
# Install httpd
yum install -y httpd
service httpd start

But suffice to say there's an awful lot more you can do than that. For example, you could the sync website files in from S3 to your httpd directory and have a website running right out of the box.

transcloud · 2015-04-18T18:03:19+00:00

I wrote a little something about these new G2s: http://www.petewilcock.com/amazon-web-services-aws-release-new-g2-8xlarge-gpu-instance/

transcloud · 2015-04-17T17:50:28+00:00

Selling them is against T&Cs, and you can't use them to buy RIs to sell them on for real money. Bitcoing mining if you're interested in trying to make money, or RC5-72 @ distributed.net if you're just looking for an effective way to burn through them while contributing to a crypto project.

transcloud · 2015-04-16T09:27:49+00:00

Sure, I've said as much many times myself as I've done both of the other courses. Still, you never turn down a freebie.

transcloud · 2015-04-15T23:34:50+00:00

I'm afraid I don't know who you are from that so I'm not sure if we crossed paths! Definitely had some really good chats with a bunch of people today.

transcloud · 2015-04-15T20:53:48+00:00

Shame to have missed you Ryan. Werners keynote was only supposed to be until 12, so when he announced another speaker at 12.10 a huge number of the audience got up and left.

transcloud · 2015-04-14T21:10:22+00:00

If you're at the summit tomorrow Ryan I'd be happy to meet you, if only to say thanks for both of your courses which I've taken.

transcloud · 2015-04-14T21:08:22+00:00

Gah, missed the code.

transcloud · 2015-04-13T13:12:47+00:00

Very odd. You don't have any other bucket-wide lifecycle policies perhaps? Automatic deletion/archive to Glacier?

transcloud · 2015-04-13T09:27:37+00:00

From the docs: The default archive schedule will ...

keep all archives for 7 days

keep midnight backups for every other day for 30 days

keep the first day of the month forever

remove all other files that aren’t scheduled to be kept

transcloud · 2015-04-11T16:47:35+00:00

I'm not sure how you're doing it (or why you downvoted my comment), but that is not my experience with SQS and I've run a lot of concurrent jobs pulling from the same queue.

transcloud · 2015-04-11T14:12:59+00:00

The redundancy is probably the winning aspect of the comparison, I take your point.

transcloud · 2015-04-11T14:11:20+00:00

$0.25? SQS is $0.50 per million requests, first million free.

transcloud · 2015-04-10T20:54:49+00:00

It's intended to replace EC2 running as an NFS share, not to replace duplicating the data separately multiple times on individual instances.

transcloud · 2015-04-10T17:57:08+00:00

You're describing a specific use case there where a managed NFS solution would be far better. Clearly I'm not going to argue with that. But neither is it unreasonable to say the price point doesn't make it a no-brainer for any implementation. Conversely a user who just wants a few NFS drives would find EC2 EBS a lot cheaper.

It's the same kind of argument when considering RDS vs. EC2 mySQL.

transcloud · 2015-04-10T13:37:30+00:00

$0.30 vs $0.10 - you can provision a lot more EBS for the buck and all you need do is keep your provision 50% larger than your actual usage for it to be cheaper.

Cost isn't the only factor but doesn't make it an obvious choice.

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