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On Wednesday morning, this is the big day for AWS re:Invent conference. The day started with a 3 hours keynote from Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS.The keynote covered a lot of different topics: databases, blockchain, machine learning… As most keynotes, it started with some numbers and AWS is still a strong leader on the public Cloud if you look at the market shares, a moment to tackle a bit some known competitors. Then it’s also…
Second day in Las Vegas for the AWS re:Invent conference. It was time to travel a little bit around the campus to attend some sessions at the Aria. The planning was still around databases and a bit AWS knowledge. The shuttle service worked perfectly in both directions with a reasonable time travel between the 2 hotels. But with such time travels, you can’t always be in all sessions you would like to see. I started…
Yesterday was my first day at AWS re:Invent conference. The venue is quite impressive, the conference is split between 6 hotels where you can attend different types of sessions including chalk talk, keynotes, hands-on labs or workshop. For my first day, I stayed in the same area in The Venetian to make it easy. The walking distance is quite big between some places so it requires to carefully plan the day to be able to see…
The Cloud is now part of our job so we have to get a deeper look on the available services to understand and take best advantage of them. The annual AWS conference re:invent has started tonight in The Venetian at Las Vegas and will last until Friday. Today was a bit special because there were no sessions yet but instead I was able to participate to a ride to Red Rock canyon on a Harley Davidson…
By Franck Pachot . Last year, I measured the CPU performance for an Oracle Database on several types of AWS instances. Just by curiosity, I’ve run the same test (SLOB cached reads) now that Amazon has applied all Spectre and Meltdown mitigation patches.
By Franck Pachot . When you run Oracle Database on Amazon AWS you Bring Your Own Licenses depending on the number of virtual cores (which are the number of cores allocated to your vCPUs). Behind the instance types, you have different processors and hyper-threading. Then, when choosing which instance type to run, you want to know which processor offers the best performance for your Oracle Workload. Here is an example comparing the logical reads on…
