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Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish
“The greatest force in legacy databases is inertia,” a widely regarded industry analyst once told me. Not superior functionality. Not better performance. Not lower cost. None of the above. Just inertia. Developers might say they prefer to run PostgreSQL to proprietary alternatives (and they do), but enterprises have spent years building data models in Microsoft […]
re:Invent 2020: Open source session round-up
Our previous post, re:Invent 2020: Open Source track preview, rounded up sessions in our official re:Invent Open Source track. In this post, we’ve collected additional open source-related content that is spread across other re:Invent tracks during the three-weeks of the virtual event. A variety of open source sessions are spread across re:Invent talk tracks, covering […]
re:Invent 2020: Open Source track preview
re:Invent is a free 3-week virtual conference that will be held November 30 – December 18, 2020. The Open Source track is back at re:Invent this year, with content spread across the first two weeks of the three-week virtual experience. Register now to view the agenda and add sessions to your calendar. This year, the […]
re:Cap part three – open source at re:Invent 2019
Wrapping up our final summary, we kick off with a roundup of the open source updates in the area of compute and emerging technologies. We start with a great explanation of Fargate on Firecracker from Clare Ligouri during Werner Vogel’s keynote, and proceed to a broad selection of the container sessions and workshops that ran […]
Code and beyond: How we contribute to the Apache Cassandra community
AWS was built for running open source. Since AWS launched in 2006 we have contributed to a broad variety of open source software projects, from Redis to Linux to Apache Lucene to Kubernetes, and will continue to do so as we seek to help our customers. Code, however, is not always our only contribution, and […]
Gearing up for re:Invent 2019 with Open Distro for Elasticsearch sessions
re:Invent 2019 has a new track this year and it’s all about Open Source! There are lots of great sessions coming up on Open Distro for Elasticsearch and its components such as Alerting, Security, and Performance Analyzer. Join in to learn more and participate in hands-on workshops! Keep a lookout for our sessions on machine […]
Open source at AWS re:Invent 2019
We have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! You can find it in the re:Invent catalog by searching on OPN in the search bar. The Open Source track covers topics from PartiQL to robotics to machine learning to Open Distro for Elasticsearch to BPF to GraphQL to Spinnaker to Kubernetes to… more. But […]
Recap: Open Source at re:Invent 2018
中文版 Though it seems like a lifetime already, re:Invent 2018 took place only three weeks ago. We knew that a lot of open source would be happening at re:Invent, and we even told you about some of it in advance. ? But there were multiple open source announcements during re:Invent for which, of course, we couldn’t […]
Friday, November 30: Open Source Sessions Today at re:Invent
中文版 Please double-check the AWS re:Invent event catalog to confirm the date/time/venue for your session! Remember, this is not an exhaustive list! Also see the overview post Open Source at re:Invent 2018 for links to broad topic areas (e.g., containers) that are also about open source. 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM SEC378-R1 – Securely Deploying […]
Thursday, November 29: Open Source Sessions Today at re:Invent
中文版 Please double-check the AWS re:Invent event catalog to confirm the date/time/venue for your session! Remember, this is not an exhaustive list! Also see the overview post Open Source at re:Invent 2018 for links to broad topic areas (e.g., containers) that are also about open source. 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM SPO34 – Maker Space […]