Unsafely Accelerating AWS Customers
AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 1, 2021 with Corey Quinn.
Episodes
AWS Morning Brief
The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.
Episodes
The Unconventional Guide: The Cloud Is Not Your Data Center
Links Forrest Brazeal article referenced: https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-lift-and-shift-shot-clock-cloud-migration Unconventional Guide: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/resources/unconventional-guide-to-aws-cost-management/ Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Fairwinds . Whether you’re new to Kubernetes or have some experience under your belt, and then definitely don’t want to deal with Kubernetes, there are some things you should simply never, ever d...
AWS Compensation Explained
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Elasticsearching For A Business Model
AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 25, 2021 with Corey Quinn.
The Unconventional Guide to Cost Management: Architectural Context
Check out the full unconventional guide here ! Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by LaunchDarkly . Take a look at what it takes to get your code into production. I’m going to just guess that it’s awful because it’s always awful. No one loves their deployment process. What if wanting new features didn’t require you to do a full-on code and possibly infrastructure deploy? What if you could test on a small subset of users and then roll it back immediately if results aren’t what yo...
The Various Billing Philosophies of AWS
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Replicating DynamoDB the Dumb Way
AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 18th, 2021 with Corey Quinn.
Introducing From the Field: The Unconventional Guide to Cost Management
About Corey Quinn Over the course of my career, I’ve worn many different hats in the tech world: systems administrator, systems engineer, director of technical operations, and director of DevOps, to name a few. Today, I’m a cloud economist at The Duckbill Group , the author of the weekly Last Week in AWS newsletter, and the host of two podcasts: Screaming in the Cloud and, you guessed it, AWS Morning Brief , which you’re about to listen to. Transcript Corey: When you think about feature flags—an...
Parler’s New Serverless Architecture
Special thanks to Alice Goldfuss for this week’s awesome title ! Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link . Sponsors Veeam New Relic Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and t...
Insurrection Week
AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 11, 2021 with Corey Quinn.
Kubernetes is the Most Expensive Way to Run a Service
Transcript Corey: Software powers the world. LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that empowers all teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases at scale, LaunchDarkly enables you to innovate faster, increase developer happiness, and drive DevOps transformation. To stay competitive, teams must adopt modern software engineering practices. LaunchDarkly enables teams to modernize faster, Intuit, GoPro, IBM, Atlassi...
Terrible Ideas for Avoiding AWS Data Transfer Costs
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Amazon Lookout for 2020
AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 4, 2021 with Corey Quinn.
AWS Wishlist and Chrismahanukwanzakah Part 2
Links #AWSWishList @AWSWishList Account Follow Pete + Jesse on Twitter Transcript Corey: When you think about feature flags (and you should), you should also be thinking of LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that lets all your teams safely deliver and control software through feature flags by separating code deployments from feature releases at massive scale (and small-scale too), LaunchDarkly enables you to innovate faster, increase developer, happiness (which is more i...
Counting Twitter Followers over Time, the Corey Quinn Way
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Amazon Chat Slapfight
AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 28, 2020 with Corey Quinn.
AWS Wishlist and Chrismahanukwanzakah Part 1
Links #AWSWishList @AWSWishList Account Follow Pete + Jesse on Twitter Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Linode . You might be familiar with Linode; they’ve been around for almost 20 years. They offer Cloud in a way that makes sense rather than a way that is actively ridiculous by trying to throw everything at a wall and see what sticks. Their pricing winds up being a lot more transparent—not to mention lower—their performance kicks the crap out of most other ...
EBS Volumes
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Some Cloud Shells Take Years to Form
AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 21, 2020 with Corey Quinn.
Ask a Cloud Economist: Cost Attribution in AWS
Links Follow Pete + Jesse on Twitter Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Linode . You might be familiar with Linode; they’ve been around for almost 20 years. They offer Cloud in a way that makes sense rather than a way that is actively ridiculous by trying to throw everything at a wall and see what sticks. Their pricing winds up being a lot more transparent—not to mention lower—their performance kicks the crap out of most other things in this space, and—my perso...
Is ECS Deprecated?
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SageMaker SageFactory
AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 14, 2020 with Corey Quinn.
The Kinesis Outage
Links Follow Last Week In AWS on Twitter AWS Outage Message "Kinesis Outage" by Ryan Frantz Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Linode . You might be familiar with Linode; they’ve been around for almost 20 years. They offer Cloud in a way that makes sense rather than a way that is actively ridiculous by trying to throw everything at a wall and see what sticks. Their pricing winds up being a lot more transparent—not to mention lower—their performance kicks the cr...
The Google Disease Afflicting AWS
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Hit by the Conference Trainium
AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 7, 2020 with Corey Quinn.
AWS S3 Storage Lens: The Best Service Not Announced at AWS Storage Day
Links Follow Last Week In AWS on Twitter Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored by ExtraHop . ExtraHop provides threat detection and response for the Enterprise (not the starship). On-prem security doesn’t translate well to cloud or multi-cloud environments, and that’s not even counting IoT. ExtraHop automatically discovers everything inside the perimeter, including your cloud workloads and IoT devices, detects these threats up to 35 percent faster, and helps you act immediately. Ask for a ...
The Most Under-Appreciated AWS Service
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Punched in the Faith
AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 30, 2020 with Corey Quinn.
AWS Services for Thanksgiving Dinner
Links Follow Last Week In AWS on Twitter Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored by ExtraHop . ExtraHop provides threat detection and response for the Enterprise (not the starship). On-prem security doesn’t translate well to cloud or multi-cloud environments, and that’s not even counting IoT. ExtraHop automatically discovers everything inside the perimeter, including your cloud workloads and IoT devices, detects these threats up to 35 percent faster, and helps you act immediately. Ask for a ...
Secrets of AWS Contract Negotiation
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