Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Finally decided to bite the bullet and start messing around with Lambda. Previously, I hadn't had a specific problem I wanted to solve with Lambda (or boto, for that matter).
Worse, the customer's IA folks had been sitting on approval of using Lambda in production accounts for a couple years. That changed, this week.
So, I took the opportunity to do some "applied learning": wrote a quick suite of bulk backup (an backup-expiry) Lambda functions. I figure we can "safety" some of our newer-to-AWS customer-teams'accounts by configuring their accounts to do daily snaps of everything. That way, when customer's team-members open up AWS support cases to ask "how do I recover data from a deleted instance" (as one had earlier in the week), instead of AWS replying back, "you can't: the instance's disk is gone and you have no snapshots", AWS can tell them how to try to recover from snapshots.
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Finally decided to bite the bullet and start messing around with Lambda. Previously, I hadn't had a specific problem I wanted to solve with Lambda (or boto, for that matter).
Worse, the customer's IA folks had been sitting on approval of using Lambda in production accounts for a couple years. That changed, this week.
So, I took the opportunity to do some "applied learning": wrote a quick suite of bulk backup (an backup-expiry) Lambda functions. I figure we can "safety" some of our newer-to-AWS customer-teams'accounts by configuring their accounts to do daily snaps of everything. That way, when customer's team-members open up AWS support cases to ask "how do I recover data from a deleted instance" (as one had earlier in the week), instead of AWS replying back, "you can't: the instance's disk is gone and you have no snapshots", AWS can tell them how to try to recover from snapshots.