The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill
How much would AWS cost for Amazon Prime Day? Here’s Corey Quinn’s best guess at the company’s AWS bill for the two-day shopping event.
Breaking: AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses
In a rare price hike, AWS will be charging for IPv4 addresses. The change brings them in line with other cloud providers and encourages good internet hygiene.
It’s Extremely Likely You Should Not Use GovCloud
AWS GovCloud is a service that you likely shouldn’t use for your workload over the standard commercial AWS regions. But don’t take my word for it — take AWS’s.
us-west-1: The Flagship AWS Region That Isn’t
For a flagship AWS region based in Northern California, us-west-1 gets way less use than you’d expect. Here’s my best guess as to why.
FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business
Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn answers the Federal Trade Commission’s Request for Information about the business practices of cloud computing providers.
17 Final Ways to Run Containers
I originally had a throwaway joke on Twitter that became an article: 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS. That was all well and good, and because I don’t know when to leave well enough alone, a few months later I wrote 17 More Ways to Run Containers on AWS. And now, since I don’t know when to leave well enough alone and stop beating the greasy smear on the sidewalk where the horse used to be, I want to introduce the third article in this series.
A Hidden Serverless Peril
“Serverless” has become a catch-all term that’s been watered down enthusiastically, particularly by AWS offerings that look an awful lot like “serverfull” products to most of its customers, so let me clarify what I mean here.
9 Things I Love About AWS
People sometimes ask me why I’m so hard on AWS. Honestly, it’s because I love what AWS does and want to see it succeed! There’s quite a lot the business does well, so this week, I’d like to tell you my nine favorite things about AWS. If you work there, please don’t think that your […]
Why AWS Might Be the Next Backbone Provider
Amazon EC2 instances are the lifeblood for most AWS customers, but they’re treated as passé internet infrastructure. Let’s talk about them.
LocalStack: Why Local Development for Cloud Workloads Makes Sense
LocalStack 2.0 emulates AWS APIs and their responses for local development. In some cases, the benefits outweigh the silliness of mocking cloud services locally.
S3 as an Eternal Service
AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr obviously needs no introduction to anyone even tangentially aware of what AWS is–but did you know that he’s also a philosopher? I recently got to chatting with him about The Future®, and he said something that caught me completely off guard: I sometimes think about the fact that Amazon S3 […]
AWS’s Anti-Competitive Move Hidden in Plain Sight
Folks have been making noises for a while that Amazon is anti-competitive in a variety of ways. I don’t disagree with the overall sentiment, but there’s one particular aspect of how AWS advantages its own offerings that I don’t see folks talking about–and strikes me as particularly egregious.