AWS Morning Brief

The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted


Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn goes through the torrent of news about Amazon’s cloud ecosystem and strains out the noise. Then he takes what’s left and gently and lovingly makes fun of it.

AWS Morning Brief Billie Coffee Cup
footprint-orange
Sort By

S3’s Durability Guarantees Aren’t What You Think

Last Week In AWS
04.21.2021
7 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of April 21, 2021.

AOS Engineering

Last Week In AWS
04.19.2021
7 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 19, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Listener Questions 3 – How to Get Rid of Your Oracle Addiction

Last Week In AWS
04.16.2021
24 Minutes
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.

Machine Learning is a Marvelously Executed Scam

Last Week In AWS
04.14.2021
8 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of April 12, 2021.

Suspiciously Warm Pools

Last Week In AWS
04.12.2021
8 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 12, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Predict Your Future (and Make Your CFO Happy)

Last Week In AWS
04.09.2021
23 Minutes
Join Pete and Jesse as they talk about the important role tagging plays in influencing DevOps, why tagging strategies need to change over time, why improving your organization's tagging strategy isn't an overnight fix, how tagging is all about cost attribution, some alternative use cases for tagging that you might not have thought about, why tools like Cloud Custodian can help you understand more about your cloud environment, how positive reinforcement can be used to get your team on board with tagging, and more.

Nobody Cares About the Operating System Anymore

Last Week In AWS
04.07.2021
10 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of April 7, 2021

AWS Space Accelerator vs. AWS Global Accelerator

Last Week In AWS
04.05.2021
7 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 5, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Win Friends and Influence DevOps: Continual Tagging Improvement

Last Week In AWS
04.02.2021
20 Minutes
Join Pete and Jesse as they talk about the important role tagging plays in influencing DevOps, why tagging strategies need to change over time, why improving your organization's tagging strategy isn't an overnight fix, how tagging is all about cost attribution, some alternative use cases for tagging that you might not have thought about, why tools like Cloud Custodian can help you understand more about your cloud environment, how positive reinforcement can be used to get your team on board with tagging, and more.

You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened

Last Week In AWS
03.31.2021
10 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 31, 2021.

AWS FaceHugger Now Integrates With AWS ChestBurster

Last Week In AWS
03.29.2021
8 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 29, 2021with Corey Quinn.

Why Are You Still Paying Retail Prices?!

Last Week In AWS
03.26.2021
24 Minutes
Join Pete and Jesse as they continue the Unconventional Guide to AWS Cost Management with a conversation about why you shouldn’t be paying retail prices for AWS services. They touch upon why every AWS customer gets an account manager regardless of how much they’re spending, why Amazon doesn’t want you spending money wastefully in AWS, the magic number at which your AWS account manager will reach out to you and why you should be the one to initiate the conversation anyway, how account managers want to save you money but how there are only so many internal levers to pull, how you shouldn’t use “we’re going to move to another provider” as a bargaining chip unless you can actually move away from AWS within a week, and more.