Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions

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 […]

AWS edge locations are designed to deliver services with as less latency as possible. Learn more about edge locations, use cases, and where they might make sense for your organization.

Developer portals can be used to enforce standardization and to enable multi-cloud use cases. But they also have some serious issues and should be avoided in most cases.

A real world comparison of two wildly successful modern replacements for traditional database systems.