2022-04-28 Thursday - NSA re-awards $10B cloud computing contract to AWS

• https://www.fedscoop.com/nsa-re-awards-10b-wildandstormy-cloud-computing-contract-to-aws/
• https://www.engadget.com/amazon-web-services-re-awarded-nsa-cloud-contract-152924596.html 
• https://www.pcmag.com/news/despite-microsoft-protest-amazon-wins-10-billion-nsa-cloud-contract-again
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31186481 
  
•  https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/27/nsa-re-awards-10b-cloud-computing-contract-aws/
• https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/04/28/nsa_wands_aws/
• "The contract, codenamed "Wild and Stormy," is the successor of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) IT contract, awarded to Microsoft in 2019, and later killed off by the Pentagon after several protests from rivals including Oracle and Amazon." 

2021-07-06 Tuesday - Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract

 Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract after long feud between Amazon and Microsoft

• https://www.geekwire.com/2021/pentagon-cancels-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract-long-feud-amazon-microsoft/

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-06/pentagon-scraps-10-billion-cloud-contract-award-to-microsoft
  

Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) 

2019-10-25 Friday - Microsoft Wins $10B JEDI Gov Cloud Contract

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-wins-pentagons-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract-beating-amazon-2019-10-25?mod=home-page


Additional reporting...

• Trump allegedly ordered former Defense Secretary James Mattis to ‘screw Amazon’ one year before awarding a hotly contested $10 billion defense cloud contract to Microsoft

• Amazon Web Services is 'evaluating options' after Microsoft wins $10 billion JEDI contract out from under its nose 
• Amazon blasts the Pentagon for awarding $10billion cloud contract to Microsoft saying it is 'unmistakable bias' 

2019-05-01 Wednesday - AWS Well Architectured Framework

"The Well-Architected Framework has been developed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications. Based on five pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization — the Framework provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures, and implement designs that will scale over time."

For my fellow CTOs and Enterprise Architects - who may be pondering how to move their organizations to an Agile Architecture model (and the attendant challenges of fulfilling the responsibilities for governance and oversight) - I encourage you to read this well written document - but, in particular, pay close attention to page-3, under the section entitled "On Architecture"

• AWS Well-Architected Framework, November 2018

Additional resources:

• https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

• https://github.com/awslabs/aws-well-architected-labs

• https://aws.amazon.com/well-architected-tool/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/userguide/intro.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/userguide/wellarchitected-ug.pdf

2018-10-07 Sunday - Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition

https://www.manning.com/books/serverless-architectures-on-aws-second-edition

"Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition teaches you how to design, secure and manage serverless backends that can power the most demanding web and mobile apps! This new edition has been fully-updated to include new chapters on current best practices and innovative use-cases, along with full coverage of the latest changes to AWS."

some additional links that may be of interest:

• https://twitter.com/sbarski
• https://github.com/sbarski/serverless-architectures-aws
• https://github.com/sbarski?tab=repositories
• https://github.com/pmuens/awesome-serverless

Some of the talks from this year's from Serverlessconf San Francisco 2018

https://acloud.guru/series/serverlessconf-sf-2018

https://medium.com/lumigo/takeaways-from-the-serverlessconf-sf-2018-7167838394d5

2016-05-14 Saturday - AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

I'm experimenting today with some of the capabilities of the AWS CLI. This post is a placeholder for my notes - that may be of use to others.

• https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/
• https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cli/
• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html 
• Amazon AWS Documentation  (for Kindle)

My intention is to leverage the AWS SDK for Go

• https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/wiki