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Episode489

Telling Customers What They Want To Hear

02.06.2023
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Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

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Telling Customers What They Want To Hear

Episode Summary

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 6, 2023 with Corey Quinn.

Episode Show Notes

Links:

  • Amazon announced its fourth quarter and FY 2022 results last week; Tim Bray has an analysis that's absolutely worth reading. 
  • Amazon CloudWatch now simplifies metric extraction from structured logs
  • Amazon MemoryDB for Redis Announces 99.99% Availability Service Level Agreement
  • AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports ingestion of activity events from non-AWS sources
  • AWS announces access of Simple Monthly Calculator estimates in the AWS Pricing Calculator 
  • Amazon increases NAT Gateway’s capacity to support concurrent connections to a unique destination
  • Amazon EMR launches support for Amazon EC2 C7g (Graviton3) instances to improve cost performance for Spark workloads by 7–13%
  • Analyze Amazon S3 storage costs using AWS Cost and Usage Reports, Amazon S3 Inventory, and Amazon Athena 
  • AWS shows why physical stores matter more than ever at NRF 2023

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