AWS’s (de)Generative AI Blunder

Considering the importance of data security and the ballooning regulatory burden imposed by new privacy laws, it’s more important than ever to develop a comprehensive data retention strategy. But knowing when to hold ’em and knowing when to fold ’em when it comes to data isn’t as straightforward as it sounds. Even relatively small organizations […]

I’m afraid I come to you this morning with terrible news: I’ve been writing code again.

I once said that AWS has launched so many services that I could talk about a service that didn’t really exist and not get called out for it–by AWS employees. Sure enough, last week saw the rise of AWS Infinidash, an imaginary AWS service that doesn’t (at the time of this writing) really exist.

If you work at a startup, you know how slim the margin for error is. If your startup is building on AWS, then you may also know how easy it is to make mistakes on such a vast platform.

Back in March, I took the beta AWS Certified Sysops Administrator – Associate exam because my Certified Cloud Practitioner was expiring.

There’s a joke that I’ve always been partial to: a software engineering type rubs a lamp and a genie appears. The genie says that he’ll grant the engineer $1 billion, but only if they can spend $100 million in a single month with three rules. “You can’t gift it away. You can’t gamble with it. […]

AWS certifications are a polarizing topic. Some say a certification is an essential qualification for any cloud engineer; others say it’s a waste of time and money.

A couple of weeks ago, a blog post from Andreesen Horowitz talked about “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox.”

When you talk about AWS billing, you’re talking about AWS architecture. Most folks don’t recognize that they’re the same thing.

Before you buy Savings Plans, sign an AWS contract, or rearchitect your environment, consider doing this first.

Learn about the difference between two approaches for running relational databases in AWS.

There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are 17 ways to run containers on AWS. I will now enumerate them.