The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 10, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Corey, Pete, and Amy as they say goodbye to Pete in his last show as a host of Fridays from the Field before he moves on to his next endeavor. Tune in to learn about how Pete wound up at The Duckbill Group by luck, how even if you think you know your way around AWS you’ll quickly find out how little you really understand when you become an AWS cloud economist, how effective written communication is essentially a superpower, how cloud economics is the intersection of architecture and cost, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of May 5, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 3, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they take some more questions from the field and touch upon why no finance or products teams really monitor cloud spend at most organizations, how if monitoring cloud spend is everyone’s job, it’s really no one’s job, why you might want to pick up a copy of the O’Reilly book Cloud FinOps since you’re reading these words, why you might want to migrate storage to the cloud first before anything else, how Amazon will aggressively help some customers migrate to AWS (e.g., from Oracle), how it’s important to understand the why behind migrating to the cloud, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of April 28, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 26th 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they take two questions from the field about practical approaches to applying some of their previous teachings to real-world scenarios. Listen in to learn why Pete believes Compute Optimizer is criminally underused, why teams should have a dedicated individual focused on cloud spend optimization instead of asking an engineer to take it on as a side project, how cloud finance teams are finally starting to emerge and why that’s a good thing, how it’s amazing to see an AWS bill go down because of a cloud finance team’s efforts, why you should put as many guardrails in place in your cloud environment as you can, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of April 21, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 19, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they talk about the Herculean effort that is lifting and shifting a system to AWS; why your work is just getting started after you do a lift-and-shift; how technical debt piles up when you don’t modernize applications to take advantage of cloud-native tools, frustrating your team; how many people forget about the new costs they’ll need to pay after moving to AWS (e.g., data transfer and storage); how deciding to use Oracle was probably a good choice at the time but why most businesses are migrating away from it; how you can think about migrating to the cloud the same way you might think about moving from a monolith to a microservices architecture; how to get rid of your Oracle addiction; managing costs in AWS Batch; and more.