--- title: "The stats behind Amazon's dominance of the cloud" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 224 published_at: "2019-07-10" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/224" --- The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news #224 — July 10, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/224) Web Operations Weekly ..soon to be _**Statuscode Weekly**_ [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1562769519/rng9xs8pj4zd8tn8o9vg.jpg)](https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/07/ico-announces-intention-to-fine-british-airways/) [British Authorities to Fine British Airways £183.39m ($235m) for Data Breach](https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/07/ico-announces-intention-to-fine-british-airways/) — European authorities are starting to exercise the serious powers given to them by the much maligned GDPR data protection regulations. BA’s huge fine follows a cyber incident late last year, and [Marriott are also due to be fined £99m ($125m)](https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/07/statement-intention-to-fine-marriott-international-inc-more-than-99-million-under-gdpr-for-data-breach/) over a 4 year _international_ security weakness that involved a leak of EU citizens’ data. Information Commissioner's Office [The Impressive Stats Behind Amazon’s Dominance of the Cloud](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/stats-amazon-dominance-cloud/) — Some interesting infographics based on a variety of statistics from Garner, Statista, and AWS themselves. Apparently _“Each day, AWS adds as much infrastructure as they used to run in total 7 years back”_(!) Jeff Desjardins [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/c6f01595.png)](https://get.mux.com/2NDPG2Y) [Video for Serverless: Build Video in Just Two API Calls](https://get.mux.com/2NDPG2Y) — Mux Video is an API-first platform, powered by data and designed by video experts to make beautiful video possible for every development team. Mux sponsor [The Future of Websites: Headless CMSes?](https://scotch.io/bar-talk/the-future-of-websites-headless-cmss) — An increasing number of CMSes have been shunning traditional database-driven systems in favor of API driven ones, known as “headless CMS”es. Here’s a run through some pros and cons of the approach. Dan Fries [Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless Now Generally Available](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-postgresql-serverless-now-generally-available/) — Amazon's performance-oriented database that provides MySQL and Postgres compatibility and charges by the hour now supports a serverless ‘pay as you go’ (to a point) approach for Postgres users. Amazon Web Services [`strong_password` v0.0.7 Ruby Gem Hijacked](https://withatwist.dev/strong-password-rubygem-hijacked.html) — Here is an example of why being diligent with your dependencies is a must. Tute was looking at the changelogs for gems in their app and found out one had been sneakily taken over. Tute Costa **Quick bytes:** - Firefox 68 [is out](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/07/firefox-68-bigints-contrast-checks-and-the-quantumbar/) and now [only allows camera and microphone access on secure origins](https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/camera-microphone-require-https-in-firefox-68/) (mainly HTTPS and `localhost`). - YouTube's new policies [threaten videos teaching infosec techniques.](https://boingboing.net/2019/07/03/nobus-r-us.html) - AWS now has a [Budget Reports system](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-aws-budgets-reports/) that can send frequent reports on the performance of AWS budgets. - IBM has finalized [its $34bn acquisition of Red Hat.](https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future) The goal is to build a _'next-generation hybrid multicloud platform.'_ - The British trade association for ISPs has deemed Mozilla to be [an 'Internet Villain'](https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-isp-group-names-mozilla-internet-villain-for-supporting-dns-over-https/) because of its support for DNS-over-HTTPS and how it will help users circumvent 'UK filtering obligations'.. despite Mozilla having [no plans to enable DoH by default in the UK.](https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-no-plans-to-enable-dns-over-https-by-default-in-the-uk/) - Amazon wants to [put 3236 satellites into space](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/amazon-follows-spacex-into-satellite-broadband-asks-fcc-to-ok-launch-plan/) to provide a global broadband service. - [Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-amazon-cloudwatch-anomaly-detection-now-in-preview/) is now in preview. It uses machine learning to analyze app metrics and highlight 'anomalies'. - Amazon Elasticsearch has [introduced hourly snapshots](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-elasticsearch-service-increases-data-protection-with-automated-hourly-snapshots-at-no-extra-charge/) at no extra charge. 💻 Jobs [DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote)](https://x-team.com/remote-devops-engineer-jobs/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email-ad&utm_campaign=webops) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands. X-Team [Land a New Dev Job on Vettery](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-webopsweekly&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-77581) — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Vettery 📖 Tutorials [There's More Than One Way to Write An IP Address](https://ma.ttias.be/theres-more-than-one-way-to-write-an-ip-address/) — While it goes into somewhat more depth than this, if you didn’t know you can write `127.0.0.1` as `127.1`.. this is for you. Mattias Geniar [How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox](https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-enable-dns-over-https-doh-in-firefox/) — A step by step guide to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support in the Firefox browser (the only browser that supports it so far). Catalin Cimpanu [How the Dat Protocol Works](https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/) — A surprisingly in-depth and highly visual explanation of the P2P hypermedia protocol. Duncan Keall [How to Run A Small Social Network Site for Your Friends](https://runyourown.social/) — A well thought out introduction to an interesting topic. It’s not so much the tech that’s important here but the social issues. Darius Kazemi ▶[Securing Serverless and Container Services](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmSdyN9qiXY) — An hour long talk focusing on best practices, patterns, and demos on securing serverless services using a combination of approaches. Tomas Clemente Sanchez [An Introductory Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices](https://blog.docker.com/2019/07/intro-guide-to-dockerfile-best-practices/) Tibor Vass 💬 Stories and Opinions [How a Malicious Site Could Make Zoom Users Enable Their Cameras Without Permission](https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5) — This week’s big security story has been around Zoom, a popular video conferencing service, and their Mac client which kept a Web server running in the background on people’s machines which could be triggered to launch a video conference without permission. Jonathan Leitschuh [Ten Years of Erlang](https://ferd.ca/ten-years-of-erlang.html) — _“These last 10 years have been amazing. What’s interesting is that the Erlang community is still small and mostly untapped.”_ Fred Hebert ▶[Break Things on Purpose: The Chaos Engineering Podcast | Episode 3](https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-3-paul-osman-senior-engineering-manager-at-under-armour/?utm_medium=cpm&utm_source=WebOpsWeekly&utm_content=20190710&utm_campaign=2019_Cooperpress) Gremlin sponsorpodcast [Migrating 6.5TB of Data to AWS S3 - A Journey Concluded](https://blog.misaunders.com/2019/migrating-6-5tb-of-filestream-data-to-s3-a-journey-concluded/) — The tale of taking 6.5TB of FileStream data from SQL Server and getting it into AWS which wasn’t entirely straightforward.. complete with a ‘near-heart-attack moment’(!) Michael Saunders [The Slow Climb of PostgreSQL and the Value of Persistence](https://thenewstack.io/the-slow-climb-of-postgres-and-the-value-of-persistence/) — Dr. Michael Stonebraker recently gave an account of how he helped bring Postgres into the world. Joab Jackson (The New Stack) [The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-evolving-infrastructure-of-net-core/) — A look behind the scenes at what is a rather complex project that doesn’t fit into Microsoft’s classical project management approach. .NET Blog [Organizations Running on More Clouds Less Likely to See Security Threats](https://thenewstack.io/organizations-running-on-more-clouds-less-likely-to-see-security-threats/) — IMO, it’s because companies using multiple clouds often need more automation and policies around the management of things.. Lawrence Hecht [Here’s What Disney+ Traffic Could Be Worth To CDNs](https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2019/06/disney-cdn.html) — Disney’s new streaming service could result in a huge payday for a variety of CDN providers. Dan Rayburn [Myths About Perl 6](https://aearnus.github.io/2019/07/06/perl-6-is-cursed) — The Perl world is notoriously esoteric (and it was my main language for 8 years!) but this clears up some of the long standing myths. Tyler Limkemann 🛠 Code and Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1562768507/br2ixoguove4i6rc3xfz.png)](https://github.com/CIRCL/lookyloo) [Lookyloo: Scrapes A Site and Displays A Tree of Domains Calling Each Other](https://github.com/CIRCL/lookyloo) — A visual way to look at a ‘dependency’ graph (of sorts) of the various third party assets a site uses. Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg [Hub: Use GitHub from the Command Line](https://hub.github.com/) — An extension to `git` that’s for performing common GitHub-specific tasks (e.g. check out pull requests) without having to leave the terminal. GitHub [A Partner for Your Database Operations](https://pgexperts.com) — PGX provides operational support for PostgreSQL databases. We keep your database going, so you can focus on your business. PostgreSQL Experts, Inc sponsor [DuckDB: A New, Embeddable SQL OLAP Database System](https://www.duckdb.org/) — Built in C++, DuckDB _bills_ itself as ‘the SQLite for Analytics’ and has bindings for C/C++, Python, and R. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/cwida/duckdb). CWI Database Architectures Group [The Dhall Configuration Language: A 'Non-Repetitive' Alternative to YAML](https://dhall-lang.org/) — Check out the live demos on the homepage for a feel of how it works. Gabriel Gonzalez et al. Curated by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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