Infinidash: AWS’s New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner

Last Thursday Honeycomb was kind enough to hand me the closing keynote slot at O11yCon, a conference whose entire premise is that observability matters and the people in the room are the ones who would know. I used that slot to argue that the primary reader of your telemetry is no longer a human, and […]

I’ve been saying “S3 is not a filesystem” for over a decade. I’ve said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large company employees who were too polite to tell me to shut up before they went back to their FUSE monstrosities. It was one of those reliable truths […]

2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) Amazon's Fastest-Shipping Product Is Now Blog Posts Correcting the Financial Times I've been watching AWS long enough to develop a feel for when a company's communications shift from "informing" to "coping." We crossed that line somewhere around February 20th, when Amazon published a blog […]

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[Last Week in AWS] AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate

After years of complaints, AWS Compute Optimizer can identify idle NAT Gateways. At $35/month each plus data processing fees, finding unused gateways just got dramatically easier.

AWS has done its quarterly housecleaning / "Googling" of its services, and deprecated what appears at first glance to be a startlingly long list. However, going through them put my mind at ease, and I'm hoping this post can do the same for you.

One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the promotion of Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, effective immediately. In this expanded role, Malphas will oversee the company’s strategic initiatives in byzantine pricing models, confusing product nomenclature, and Generative AI.

Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief.

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.