Good Morning!
Hello from Seattle, where I’m rehearsing for next month’s re:Invent talk. Soon. Soon we’ll all be free of the AI marketing–right?
From the Community
This open letter to Amazon leadership (PDF warning) has some great observations in it. Among them: I’m apparently not the only person who’s befuddled by half of the AI jibber-jabber included in AWS’s messaging lately.
I chatted on the Developer Marketing Stories podcast about some of the nonsense that led me here, to different nonsense.
This might be the best kubernetes visualization I’ve ever seen.
AWS IAM Policy Condition Operators Explained is a handy reference that AWS should have written themselves but apparently can’t be fussed to actually do so.
I’m deeply envious of this rant about IAM Access Identity Center. It strikes at the core of some of the product’s deepest usability issues.
Linus Torvalds claims 90% of AI marketing is hype so ‘I ignore it’. Funny, he’s not usually one to understate such things.
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: Steady Improvements
Screaming in the Cloud: Disclosing Vulnerabilities in the Cloud with Ryan Nolette
Screaming in the Cloud: Replay – Chaos Engineering for Gremlins with Jason Yee
Choice Cuts
Amazon CloudWatch now monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance – I want this to make its way to RDS volumes too. It’d save me a bunch of work.
Amazon Q Developer announces support for inline chat to streamline the developer experience – This would be great except that I paid for Q Developer last month, and the onboarding was about as "streamlined" as running naked through a thicket of rosebushes. Contrast this to the enhancements announced last week for GitHub Copilot, and the difference is… stark.
Amazon Route 53 announces HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record support – Oh hell yes, new database column types just dropped.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing features – Wait, you mean I can only modify a SG once and not have to replicate the same change all over the place? Yes please.
AWS now accepts partial card payments – This is awesome; I can’t wait to pay my AWS bill with the digital equivalent of a wheelbarrow full of nickels.
Announcing AWS Amplify integration with Amazon S3 for static website hosting – WHAT YEAR IS IT
AWS CodeBuild now supports retrying builds automatically – If your bill fails / then don’t you holler / we’ll retry it / for a dollar.
AWS Trust & Safety Center is now available on AWS re:Post – This is a great consolidation, given that nobody uses either of these two things. Might as well put them together.
2024 re:Invent Know Before You Go – Cloud Financial Management Sessions – I humbly submit my own COP218 for your consideration.
Introducing an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Lambda developers – The most amazing part about this post is that it doesn’t mention Gen AI at all. I’m pleasantly shocked!
Tools
Another week, another Cloud Latency Map. This one would benefit from assuming that (at least on mobile) users aren’t network engineers and would prefer a couple acronyms expanded.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
