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I’ve been fielding the Duckbill Office Hours on Twitch every Thursday for a few weeks now, and I’m enjoying the questions you all are bringing. Bring more! Particularly when I get to turn it into an Ask Me Anything, or "AMA" as the youth of today call it.
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From the Community
This handy EC2 instance timeline helped me track down when RIs stopped being available for new instances.
Personal nemesis Rachel Stephens dissects Google’s attempted acquisition of Wiz.
The lunatics at Tailscale actually got the thing working on Plan9.
My observation EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated appears to not have been widely noticed before. It’s a neat change.
Shitposting as public pedagogy sounds like something I’d say as a joke, but no–it’s a full academic paper.
Oracle is slowly starting to admit that gee golly whiz, their security got completely pantsed. The Register tore their disclosure to absolute pieces which is giving me some ideas.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Way of the Weasel, RDS and SageMaker Edition
Choice Cuts
Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions – It’s wild that until now you had to either run your own DNS service, or link your GovCloud account to a separate AWS commercial account (and I assure you, Route 53’s cross account implementations aren’t terrific).
Cost Optimization Hub supports DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations – I’m curious to see where on the awesome <–> crap continuum the recommendations land.
Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Gateway Load Balancers – Absolutely no customer wanted another reserved dingus to manage themselves.
Announcing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs – Sweet, it’s now more economical to shove ads into video streams. I’m sure viewers love it.
How AWS and Intel make LLMs more accessible and cost-effective with DeepSeek – I don’t know that AWS really wants to couple its "forefront of AI" messaging to Intel’s "forefront of absolutely nothing" reputation these days…
Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone – This is a big deal, but charging for every byte rather than the ones after the first 512KB may have some price hike implications.
Optimize Amazon VPC Flow Logs analysis with Cribl Stream sampling – If Cribl were to offer this as a free trial / "point it at the AWS account and let it rip" offering, I’d throw them into virtually every customer engagement for the rest of time.
Exploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Network Load Balancers – This horribly complex post is given straight-faced, without any tacit acknowledgement that this complexity is purely AWS’s fault.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
