Keeping up with AWS announcements is like drinking from a firehose.
The signal to noise ratio is abysmal. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions-the stuff worth reading! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you – minus the nonsense.
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Spend 15 to 20 minutes of your commute listening to host Corey Quinn contextualize and poke fun at the latest in AWS news, dive into popular AWS services, and answer listener questions on AWS architecture.
Insightful conversation. Less Snark.
Every Wednesday, listen to host Corey Quinn interview domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing discuss AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and why businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.
The Various Billing Philosophies of AWS
If you look across the vast landscape of AWS services through a lens of billing, a pattern begins to emerge. There are of course the usual collection of billing jokes. You’re not charged for what you use, but for what you forget to turn off. Your AWS bill is a function of how many engineers […]
Parler’s New Serverless Architecture
(Full credit to Alice Goldfuss for the absolutely incredible title.) So, AWS booted Parler off of their service on the grounds that “calling for the assassination of elected officials was well outside the bounds of AWS’s acceptable use policy,” and half of the internet is suddenly an expert on reverse cloud migrations. I’m going to […]
Terrible Ideas for Avoiding AWS Data Transfer Costs
AWS Data Transfer billing is, to understate massively, arcane. At a high level: Data transfer inbound is free. Data transfer to the internet costs a larger pile of money. Data transfer between availability zones within a region costs a pile of money (usually 2¢ per GB in the “main” regions, but costs can spike way […]
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