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Google Cloud is (Probably) Here to Stay
For myriad reasons, GCP isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. And that’s a good thing.
With Compute Optimizer, AWS Finds an Actual Use For AI/ML
AWS has granted my wish and turned its AI/ML focus toward the most intractable of problems: the AWS bill.
5 Pervasive AWS Myths Debunked
How did re:Invent get its name, what is EC2’s origin story, and how does Amazon name its services? We spoke with company brass to find out.
A CEO’s Experience Taking the New AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam Online Exam
I took the new online option for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam. It was a bit of a rocky start, but also surprisingly promising.
AWS Begins Sunsetting RIs; Replaces Them With Something Much, Much Better
Don’t worry, Reserved Instances will still be around. You just don’t have to think about them anymore unless you want to.
Should I pick DigitalOcean or AWS for my next project?
DigitalOcean vs. AWS: A Smackdown
AWS Cross-AZ Data Transfer Costs More Than AWS Says
When it comes to the exact cost cross-AZ data transfer, the AWS documentation is a bit ambiguous. So I ran a little experiment to figure out how much it costs to move data between availability zones in the same region.
AWS isn’t killing your business, you just suck at it
Lots of companies are quick to blame AWS for their problems. They should be blaming their own boneheaded moves instead.
You Need a Multi-Cloud Dashboard Because I Want To Sell You One
The only vendors selling multi-cloud dashboards are the ones who’d be out of business if you didn’t buy them.
Happy Birthday Werner Vogels!
After watching enough of his talks to recite them by heart, The Duckbill Group says “happy birthday” to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels in our own special way.
What the hell is a vCPU-based on-demand service limit?
AWS is very eager to tell you something that they can’t quite articulate.