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It's been a little over a year since I bought a CX-70. Overall, I really like it: it's comfortable, handles well, looks great inside and out, has enough cargo space for my needs, and is able to pull my 3500 pound travel trailer with ease. But there are...

This is the third time that I'm writing about this topic. The first time was in 2018, the second in 2021. In the interim, AWS has announced a steady stream of improvements, most recently (October) increasing read throughput to 60 MB/sec.
I wasn't planning to revisit this topic. However, I read Tim Bray's post on the Bonnie disk benchmark, and it had the comment “it’d be fun to run Bonnie on a sample of EC2 instance types with files on various EBS and EFS and so on configurations.” And...

AWS's recent fait accompli deprecation of CodeCommit and six other services was a shock to me.*
Not because CodeCommit was a particularly good product — it wasn't — but because it could have been one with some investment. While there are many Git repository services in the world, CodeCommit was part of the AWS ecosystem, giving it some unique capabilities...

AWS just announced a natural language query generator for CloudTrail Lake. Using it, you can write prompts like “What are my top errors in the past month?” and it will spit out the SQL to get the answer. On the surface, that seems great: CloudTrail events...