Simon Willison’s Weblog

Serverless for data scientists (via) Slides and accompanying notes from a talk by Mike Lee Williams at PyBay, providing an overview of Zappa and diving a bit more deeply into pywren, which makes it trivial to parallelize a function across a set of AWS lambda instances (serverless Python map() execution essentially). I really like this format for sharing presentations—I used something similar for my own PyBay talk.

# 25th August 2018, 11:01 pm / data-science, serverless, amazonaws

Amazon S3: Versioning Proposal. The us-west-1 S3 bucket region now optionally supports versioning—once enabled on a bucket, all previous versions of keys will be preserved.

# 24th January 2010, 1:38 pm / s3, versioning, amazonaws, amazon, storage

Trying out Windows on EC2. Phillip Pearson provides the missing documentation.

# 24th October 2008, 9:57 am / windows, ec2, phillip-pearson, amazonaws, cloud-computing