AWS Certificate Manager Has Announced Exportable TLS Certificates, and I’m Mostly Okay With It

Back in March, I took the beta AWS Certified Sysops Administrator – Associate exam because my Certified Cloud Practitioner was expiring.

There’s a joke that I’ve always been partial to: a software engineering type rubs a lamp and a genie appears. The genie says that he’ll grant the engineer $1 billion, but only if they can spend $100 million in a single month with three rules. “You can’t gift it away. You can’t gamble with it. […]

AWS certifications are a polarizing topic. Some say a certification is an essential qualification for any cloud engineer; others say it’s a waste of time and money.

A couple of weeks ago, a blog post from Andreesen Horowitz talked about “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox.”

When you talk about AWS billing, you’re talking about AWS architecture. Most folks don’t recognize that they’re the same thing.

Before you buy Savings Plans, sign an AWS contract, or rearchitect your environment, consider doing this first.

Learn about the difference between two approaches for running relational databases in AWS.

There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are 17 ways to run containers on AWS. I will now enumerate them.

AWS Glue is a service that helps you discover, combine, enrich, and transform data so that it can be understood by other applications. Though it’s marketed as a single service, Glue is actually a suite of tools and features, comprising an end-to-end data integration solution. Glue can help you extract data from multiple sources, merge, […]

Adam Selipsky is returning to AWS as its new CEO. I fill him in on some of the things he missed while he was gone.

An EC2 Compute Unit (ECU) was Amazon’s first attempt to compare the CPU performance of different EC2 instance types. Find out what an ECU measured, why it was created, and why it was replaced.

If you attend an AWS talk about security, bump into an AWS security person in a business meeting, or are in line behind an AWS employee at a Starbucks, you’ll invariably hear the phrase “Security is Job Zero.” What does this actually mean? Cynically, I might suggest that they came up with a list of […]