AWS Morning Brief

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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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reInvent Wrap-up, Part 4

Last Week In AWS
12.13.2019
16 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for Friday, December 13th, 2019

Networking in the Cloud Fundamentals, Part 6

Last Week In AWS
12.12.2019
16 Minutes
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.

reInvent Wrap-up, Part 3

Last Week In AWS
12.11.2019
11 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for Wednesday, December 11th, 2019

reInvent Wrap-up, Part 2

Last Week In AWS
12.10.2019
14 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for Tuesday, December 10th, 2019.

reInvent Wrap-up, Part 1

Last Week In AWS
12.09.2019
14 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 9th, 2019.

Wherever You May Rome

Last Week In AWS
12.02.2019
14 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 2nd, 2019.

Networking in the Cloud Fundamentals, Part 5

Last Week In AWS
11.28.2019
16 Minutes
Join me as continue my series on cloud fundamentals with a look at the AWS Global Accelerator and, more specifically, how traffic is routed across the internet, how the Global Accelerator compares to other methods of routing traffic, the role distance plays in routing, instances where the Global Accelerator excels and instances where it won’t work well, how the Global Accelerator is a work-in-progress that will continue to get better, the economics of using the Global Accelerator (hint: it’s complicated), and more.

Improving Customers by Stuffing Them Into Containers

Last Week In AWS
11.25.2019
16 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 25th, 2019.

Networking in the Cloud Fundamentals, Part 4

Last Week In AWS
11.21.2019
18 Minutes
Join me as continue my series on cloud fundamentals with a high-level exploration of load balancers that includes what they do, how they work, how they prioritize requests (e.g., round robin and weighted round robin), the differences between load balancing in a region and load balancing on a global scale, how lots of redundancy is often a major driver of outages, how the right combination of AWS tools can support global loan balancing, the five dimensions of a load balancer capacity unit, and more.

A CloudFormation Feature of Great Import

Last Week In AWS
11.18.2019
12 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 18th, 2019.

Networking in the Cloud Fundamentals, Part 3

Last Week In AWS
11.14.2019
16 Minutes
Join me as continue my series on cloud fundamentals and explore border gateway protocol (BGP), how networks talk to each other, the economics of network communications, peering, transit agreements, net neutrality and undisclosed agreements between ISPs and streaming companies, why wireless carriers keep trying to sell you services you don’t need, how Netflix videos are delivered to your screen, and more.

EC2 Instances Now On Layaway

Last Week In AWS
11.11.2019
11 Minutes
AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 11th, 2019.