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Corey Quinn contextualizes and pokes fun at the latest in AWS news, dives into popular AWS services, and answers listener questions on AWS architecture.
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The AWS Survival Guide for 2025: A Field Manual for the Brave and the Bankrupt
Welcome, intrepid cloud explorer! You’ve decided to venture into the AWS jungle in 2025, where the services multiply faster than your monthly bill. Forget those quaint relics like S3, EC2, and RDS that everyone always gravitates towards—despite being the lion’s share of AWS revenue, they’re practically stone tablets now when it comes to interest and attention. Let’s talk about navigating the real AWS experience.
AWS Certificate Manager Has Announced Exportable TLS Certificates, and I’m Mostly Okay With It
I don’t think it’s going too far to say that free TLS certificate offerings like Let’s Encrypt and AWS Certificate Manager have taken encrypted connections mainstream.
A Day in the Life of Server #47B-2: An AWS Data Center Memoir
Or: Surprise! I Contain Multitudes and Also Your “Serverless” Functions
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