The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 7, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Jesse and Amy as they talk about how it’s hard to make the argument to take an engineer off feature work, DocOps and why it’s a thing, how engineers will always over-optimize and over-engineer when given the chance, why you should never depend on free cycles to focus on cost optimization, why teams need to stay accountable to the resources they’re running, the kinds of roles that should be focused on cost optimization work, why open and clear communication across teams is so important for effective cloud cost management, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of June 2, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 31, 2021, with Corey Quinn.

Join Jesse and Amy as they talk about the importance of measuring personalities during AWS projects; how remote work makes effective collaboration difficult, particularly for folks who’ve never met their team members in real life; the importance of embracing a growth mindset; how if something is everyone’s responsibility, it’s no one’s responsibility; the three different types of conflicts; what you can do to compromise and find common ground; how it’s a struggle to find the perfect balance between prioritizing new feature developments and cost optimization work for many organizations; and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of May 26, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 24, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Jesse and Amy as they examine the classic build-vs-buy engineering conversation and touch upon why it’s a lot safer to let a professional take the reins for do-it-yourself projects, when it’s appropriate to go to the market and look for something that’s already been build vs. when it makes sense to build something from scratch, how it’s important to understanding license requirements of the SaaS and open source tools you use, how it can be hard to see the proverbial forest for all the silos, why you need to build feedback loops into your internal tools, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of May 19, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 17, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Jesse and Amy as they about the four-item cloud cost management starter kit, how to explain being a cloud economist to someone else, why you should turn on the AWS Cost and Usage Report immediately, why you need to get to know your account manager and build rapport with them, how that relationship is designed to be mutually beneficial, how it’s important to know about the contracts and reservations that exist across your organization (not just in your department), why you need to think about the non-technical parts of cloud projects (e.g., people and process costs), and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of May 12, 2021.