The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

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.

AWS Morning Brief for Friday, December 13th, 2019

Join me as continue my series on cloud fundamentals with a look at how things break in the cloud, the differences between computers breaking in data centers versus breaking in the cloud, why you need to check Twitter or ThousandEyes instead of the AWS status page to find out whether your cloud provider’s having a massive outage, what some of the more common outages in the cloud look like, why you should probably still be in the cloud despite the fact that things break, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for Wednesday, December 11th, 2019