Good Morning!
I’m back from FinOps X in San Diego; now to unpack just what AWS got up to while I was there…
From the Community
I sure wish "no yapping" could be in AWS’s guidelines for talking about GenAI.
If anyone knows Marc Bowes at AWS, I’d appreciate an introduction; this article Aurora DSQL: How to spend a dollar is fascinating, and doesn’t align with my understanding of DSQL’s pricing. That tells me that I’m mistaken about something fundamental, and I’d like to fix it!
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec makes a podcast appearance to talk Amazon S3: The Backbone of Modern Data Systems.
I finally put pen to paper with my thoughts on what I’m calling The Innovation–Optimization Continuum.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Priceless Aurora DSQL
Choice Cuts
Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs – Freaking FINALLY.
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations – I resent that this decision is even necessary. Think about it–your workload suddenly sees a different access pattern, and your only choice is to be reactive about it. Zero shade to Compute Optimizer; they’re doing what they can with what the customer-ambivalent RDS team gives them.
AWS Invoice Summary API is now generally available – Any time AWS makes it easier to programmatically access billing information, it strikes a blow against its biggest competitor: Microsoft Excel.
Optimize Your AWS Spend with New Cost Savings Features in AWS Trusted Advisor – Let me rewrite this for you: Trusted Advisor now uses the excellent Compute Optimizer for its recommendations instead of spouting advice that’s objectively batshit nuts. I don’t trust or recommend Trusted Advisor, largely because of how craptastic their recommendations have been. It’s time to revisit that guidance with this release.
Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances – This is interesting when compared to the customer perception at FinOps X last week that these instances are incredibly hard to come by; "when you get one, keep it and dole it out internally" is the guidance one company cited. So now they’re… cheaper?
Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region – Not to be confused with the Taipan region, which is full of deadly snakes.
Upgrade your Amazon DynamoDB global tables to the current version – You’ve had six years. It’s time, folks.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
