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.

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Kubernetes is the Most Expensive Way to Run a Service

Last Week In AWS
01.08.2021
26 Minutes
Join Pete and Jesse for a lively discussion about a platform you might have heard of called Kuberentes. They touch upon why just because Google does something doesn’t mean your three-person startup should do the same, why Pete thinks Kubernetes is great if you’re inside a data center, why treating AWS like a bare-metal server isn’t the best approach, what happens with data when developers don’t know how to use Kubernetes, what Pete’s biggest fear about using Kubernetes is, and more.

Terrible Ideas for Avoiding AWS Data Transfer Costs

Last Week In AWS
01.06.2021
9 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of January 6, 2021.

Amazon Lookout for 2020

Last Week In AWS
01.04.2021
8 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 4, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

AWS Wishlist and Chrismahanukwanzakah Part 2

Last Week In AWS
01.01.2021
21 Minutes
Join Pete, Jesse, and Amy as they continue their discussion about the #awswishlist hashtag and @awswishlist Twitter account and talk about how computers are great when they do what you want them to do but not always when they do what you tell them to do, why Pete is keen on a potential service that lets you download data from various third-party locations directly into S3, why a serverless version of Elasticsearch might be awesome, why the AWS status page should just be thumbs up or thumbs down emojis, what Jesse hopes to see in AWS next year, and more.

Counting Twitter Followers over Time, the Corey Quinn Way

Last Week In AWS
12.30.2020
11 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 30, 2020

Amazon Chat Slapfight

Last Week In AWS
12.28.2020
8 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 28, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

AWS Wishlist and Chrismahanukwanzakah Part 1

Last Week In AWS
12.25.2020
18 Minutes
Join Pete, Jesse, and Amy as they discuss the merits of the AWS Wishlist Twitter account (@awswishlist) and associated hashtag (#awswishlist). Find out why the hashtag is great for product managers at AWS, why it’s awesome that AWS actually engages with the hashtag, what AWS feature requests are on Pete, Jesse, and Amy’s wishlists, why AWS needs to release documentation that clearly outlines which resources are taggable and which aren’t, the one way you can capture spend for resources that aren’t taggable, and more.

EBS Volumes

Last Week In AWS
12.23.2020
7 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 23, 2020

Some Cloud Shells Take Years to Form

Last Week In AWS
12.21.2020
8 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 21, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

Ask a Cloud Economist: Cost Attribution in AWS

Last Week In AWS
12.18.2020
27 Minutes
Join Pete and Jesse as they address a question from the Twitterverse: What are the best practices you’d recommend for someone starting from scratch in AWS? They talk about why security is a first principle and why cost attribution is equally as important, the role multiple accounts can play in effective cost allocation, how AWS Organizations has come a long way in a short period of time, the different kinds of accounts your team should set up, how you can begin working on cost attribution and cost allocation even if your AWS account has been around forever, and more.

Is ECS Deprecated?

Last Week In AWS
12.16.2020
7 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 16, 2020.

SageMaker SageFactory

Last Week In AWS
12.14.2020
8 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 14, 2020 with Corey Quinn.