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Why Your AWS Bill is Likely a Product of 2-Pizza Teams
How AWS makes its billions — $13 billion in operating income in 2020 alone — to support the bulk of Amazon’s net income is a question that stumps the public. To shine some light on the topic, CNBC’s Jordan Novet published an article on AWS’ estimated margins on a per-service basis. Amazon obviously isn’t publishing […]
(Most) SaaS Cost Tools Suck
Periodically I get someone excited to talk to me about their new AWS bill optimization tool. This is the shorthand “cheat sheet” that addresses how I think about these things. It looks like you’re building a SaaS tool to manage AWS cost optimization. I don’t think it will work. Here’s why I don’t think it […]
Hey AWS, You’re Missing Forrest for the Trees
The cloud wars are getting a lot more interesting this week. A Cloud Guru’s senior director of content and community, AWS Serverless Hero, and friend of this newsletter (“Aaaah! DON’T CALL ME THAT! DON’T EVER CALL ME THAT!”) Forrest Brazeal has announced that he’s accepted a role as Google Cloud’s head of content. This has […]
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