The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

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.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 23, 2020

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 21, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

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.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 16, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 14, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse for a lively discussion about the recent AWS Kinesis outage. They touch upon why you should never throw shade at someone else’s outage, how there might not even be a single person at AWS who understands how every AWS service works together, what the downstream effects were when Kinesis was knocked offline, how AWS outages are a good reminder of how we’re all human and no one is immune to these kinds of things, why you shouldn’t decide to move away from AWS because of an outage, why multi-cloud strategies need to be proactive and not reactive, how it’s great how AWS released an in-depth blog post about the outage, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 9, 2020

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 7, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they talk about the coolest service not announced at AWS Storage Day: AWS S3 Storage Lens, which lets you track your S3 usage across accounts. They discuss how this new service solves a major problem, how you’d have to track S3 usage prior to Storage Lens, how many organizations spend a lot of money storing multipart file uploads that fail, how AWS deserves kudos for making it super easy to set up the new service, what’s missing in AWS S3 Storage Lens, how Jesse and Pete spend more time than anyone should spend reading AWS documentation, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 2, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 30, 2020 with Corey Quinn.