Good Morning!
It’s unlikely that AWS is going to negotiate on its new 5-day in office policy, but it absolutely will negotiate on its private pricing contracts. If yours is coming up for renewal in the next year, get in touch; we’ve negotiated over $5 billion of them so far, and our clients rave about our results.
From the Community
AWS has apparently joined HackerOne. Nice to see a vuln disclosure program opening up a bit.
This wonderfully written critique of Agile/Scrum is well worth the time it takes to read it.
James Governor at RedMonk writes that Open Source Foundations Considered Helpful. It’s a good exploration of the Foundation-Industrial complex.
Chris Farris discusses the contents of a recent terrifying talk he gave.
I confess, I didn’t have "we’re losing, and customers are migrating back to on-premises data centers" as a statement AWS would make in public, but here we are. Surely that’s the reality of the situation, and not them lying to a regulator.
Hyperscalers sure do have an awful lot of cash pouring in to be demanding this much money from governments and utilities to subsidize their operations.
Chris Munns is the latest to leave AWS, after twelve years there. They’re hemorrhaging senior talent.
Jobs
Come work with me at The Duckbill Group. We’re hiring a backend software engineer to help build our cost management product. Very small team, so lots of ownership over how to build things. Hybrid in-office (3x/week in-office) in San Francisco. We’ll help with relo.
We’re looking for someone particularly experienced in AWS billing from the software engineering perspective. Maybe you’ve built a cost management product before or maybe an internal system of some sort–either way, we’re looking for that specific expertise. Major bonus points if you’re also a data engineer with experience in ClickHouse!
Our stack:
- Python + Flask
- Postgres
- ClickHouse
- React
- Typescript
- All on AWS
If you or someone you know is interested, shoot my business partner an email ([email protected]).
Podcasts
Last Week In AWS: The Trouble With Coding Assistant Demos
Screaming in the Cloud: Insights from a Vendor Insider with Ian Smith
Screaming in the Cloud: Replay – GCP’s Many Profundities with Miles Ward
Choice Cuts
AWS Transfer Family increases throughput and file sizes supported by SFTP connectors – You might have thought that Transfer Family’s "FTP files into S3" was a feature not long for this world, as companies learned to speak cloud. Clearly you don’t know large enterprises; our great grandchildren will be using this thing because Fourth Bank of Duluth can’t be bothered to modernize.
AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities – Reddit had a post last week about how to kill badly behaved bots. The best suggestion there was "use CloudFlare," because CloudFront + WAF + managed rule sets is just an overcomplicated nightmare.
AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) – The actual graphic shows Microsoft far to the upper left of AWS in the quadrant. I don’t understand why Gartner Day means that companies proudly advertise that a competitor is kicking the stuffing out of them.
Announcing General Availability of the AWS SDK for Swift – This is a big deal for iOS and native Mac app developers, who are still basically the only folks who use Swift.
Reinventing the Amazon Q Developer agent for software development – Yes, "reinventing" something that was announced less than a year ago is totally the sign of a company not chasing AI every way the wind blows. Get it together, folks.
Support for AWS DeepComposer ending soon – Good on AWS for announcing this clearly. Bad on AWS for hiding a similar deprecation of Lookout! for Equipment, a service that never outran the shadow of its truly ridiculous name.
AWS Welcomes the OpenSearch Software Foundation – Now that Elastic has reversed the license change on Elasticsearch, AWS doesn’t need OpenSearch anymore and is yeeting it over to the Linux Foundation so it can run and play with every other open source project launched over the last decade.
The Rise of Chatbots: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement – No! I don’t want to talk to your jumped-up Markov chain; I want you to fix your website or service or documentation so I don’t have to talk to anyone or anything at all.
… and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.
