The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

Join me as continue my series on cloud fundamentals by examining the last mile of the cloud, including how exciting it was to move away from Comcast, how a distribution of Linux with a potentially offensive name solved my home connectivity issues, why I chose to use a region I never otherwise use when setting up my home network, the real reason why latency affects applications (hint: it’s not latency from a DNS server or latency that stems from geographical distances), the party that’s really responsible for network performance, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 27th, 2020.

Join me as continue my series on cloud fundamentals with a look at connectivity issues in EC2, including how to troubleshoot said issues, why DNS is often the cause of connectivity issues and how to get around that, security groups and why they’re fascinating, how IPv6 might be the cause of connectivity issues in certain instances, VPC considerations to keep in mind when troubleshooting issues, when you should try to replicate your issue by spinning up a new server and when you absolutely shouldn’t, why connectivity issues should be resolved relatively quickly in the cloud era, what I believe the most transformative feature of the cloud is, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 20th, 2020.

Join me as continue my series on cloud fundamentals with a look at data transfer pricing that includes my theory on why it costs half-price to move data between US-East-1 and US-East-2 compared to everywhere else, how you basically have to conduct experiments to see how much data transfers cost, how adding a VPN to the mix makes data transfer pricing even more fun, the most expensive AWS region in the world for data transfers, where data transfer pricing shows up on your AWS bill, why data transfer pricing is the white space between AWS services, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 13th, 2020.

Join me as continue my series on cloud fundamentals with a look at the state of the cloud in China and why more and more organizations are investing there, how Chinese cloud providers need to be operated by Chinese companies, why concerns over intellectual property theft cause delays in services being released in China, how the current political climate is compounding that issue, how AWS essentially serves the Chinese market without having a physical presence in China, the two biggest cloud players inside mainland China, the Great Firewall and how it works, what you should do if you’re thinking about doing business inside China, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 6th, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 30th, 2019.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 23rd, 2019.

Join me as continue my series on cloud fundamentals by examining regions and availability zones with a look at why you want to avoid single points of failure, how AWS interprets the term data center, what the bare minimum data center looks like, the important role cooling plays in data centers, why AWS runs data centers better than you do, how AZ naming conventions aren’t consistent between accounts, the two new “region-like” things announced at re:Invent, why you need to understand the differences between regions and AZs to put together a proper DR plan, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 16th, 2019.