The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

Tim Banks is back and joins Jesse and Amy for another run as they reflect on re:Invent. Which, in the words of Tim, “is a week long sales pitch in the desert” in combination with “the worst version of corporate Burning Man you could imagine.” So circle the Teslas down on the Las Vegas Strip and lets figure out if re:Invent is even worth your time. Now that the world is supposedly re:Turned to normal. Our three hosts break down the upcoming Re:Invent in the wake of the pandemic. Is it worth it? Will there be some virtual/IRL hybrid event? Amy, Tim and Jesse bat around the idea of how to make re:Invent more interesting and it ranges from muppets throwing shade, tech themed RPGs, and HEY! Listeners...@ us for what you think should be on the re:Invent bingo cards.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of June, 23 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 21, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Jesse, Amy, and Tim as they set the record straight on what concoctions can actually be called chili and which can not, how you’re out of luck if you’re trying to predict the cost of your architecture proactively, why you should turn on Cost Explorer Cost Anomaly Detection, how no one is required to run their applications in AWS, how it could be cheaper to host your apps on bare metal in certain scenarios, cost categorization and how to measure usage costs vs. base costs, why you need to leave things on as you onboard new architectures and applications, why you shouldn’t maintain something that’s not the core of what you do, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of June 16, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 14, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Jesse and Amy as they explore the cloud cost management team starter kit and touch upon why it’s important to have buy-in from the C-suite for cloud cost optimization work, why you need to make sure everyone on the team knows who’s responsible for what, how work that isn’t prioritized is automatically deprioritized, why you should identify and socialize your business KPI metrics, why you should document responsibilities via the written word, why you should review your cloud cost analysis once a quarter, the importance of having data to back up your decisions, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of June 9, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 7, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Jesse and Amy as they talk about how it’s hard to make the argument to take an engineer off feature work, DocOps and why it’s a thing, how engineers will always over-optimize and over-engineer when given the chance, why you should never depend on free cycles to focus on cost optimization, why teams need to stay accountable to the resources they’re running, the kinds of roles that should be focused on cost optimization work, why open and clear communication across teams is so important for effective cloud cost management, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of June 2, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 31, 2021, with Corey Quinn.