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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.
The Podcasts
The AWS morning show you never knew you wanted, three days a week.
Spend 15 to 20 minutes of your commute listening to host Corey Quinn contextualize and poke fun at the latest in AWS news, dive into popular AWS services, and answer listener questions on AWS architecture.
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Every week, listen to host Corey Quinn interview domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing discuss AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and why businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.
The Cold, Hard Truth About Your Cloud DR Strategy
Disaster recovery / business continuity / “backups” are always an interesting subject for very large scale cloud environments. Many of the old data-center strategies that grumpy old sysadmins (that’s me!) relied upon don’t hold water anymore.
AWS’s Valkey Play: When a Fork Becomes a Price Cut
In a move that’s equal parts predictable and surprising, AWS has decided to make their Valkey-based services significantly cheaper than their Redis counterparts.
Amazon GenAI Services
I was in New York this week for the AWS Summit, and while it’s always great to catch up with readers (thanks to those of you who came out to the drinkup!), AWS friends, and others, I found myself rather taken aback by the overwhelming strength behind the Generative AI theme of the entire event. […]
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