The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

Join Pete and Jesse as they continue the Unconventional Guide to AWS Cost Management with a conversation about why you shouldn’t be paying retail prices for AWS services. They touch upon why every AWS customer gets an account manager regardless of how much they’re spending, why Amazon doesn’t want you spending money wastefully in AWS, the magic number at which your AWS account manager will reach out to you and why you should be the one to initiate the conversation anyway, how account managers want to save you money but how there are only so many internal levers to pull, how you shouldn’t use “we’re going to move to another provider” as a bargaining chip unless you can actually move away from AWS within a week, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 24, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 22, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they talk about the merits of making AWS reservations, how you know you’ve done something wrong when someone messages you on Chime, what AWS was like before reserved instances were a thing, how to have the reserved instance conversation with finance, how many teams are turned off by the lump-sum reserved instance line item and why that’s the wrong way to look at it, how everything has a cost in AWS—even doing nothing, the value of Savings Plans and how you can stack them on top of each other, how to avoid making an accidental $1 million API call, how the best way to save money on Amazon is to do so before spending it, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 17, 2021

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 15, 2021, with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they respond to a listener’s question: How can I convince public sector management with a multi-cloud strategy to hire an internal cloud team instead of outsourcing cloud management tasks to a managed services provider? They touch upon scenarios where multi-cloud might make perfect sense, how it takes a lot of time to build up a mature multi-cloud strategy, the differences between developing applications on-premises and in the cloud, the important role data transfer plays in cloud pricing, the different constraints public sector organizations have in the cloud, how DevOps isn’t a real job title, why centers of excellence aren’t a great way to get work done in an engineering space, why it’s important to have an internal cloud champion, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 10, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 8, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse for another installment of the Unconventional Guide to AWS Cost Management. This episode focuses on tagging, why it’s important, how many organizations treat it as an afterthought, how tagging is a lot like your doctor telling you to eat more vegetables, how tagging is an easy problem to solve except for the fact no one is incentivized to solve it, different strategies for tagging, why tagging for the sake of tagging won’t deliver the results you’re hoping for, the stakeholders you should rope into a discussion about your tagging strategy, how a two-person startup might not understand why they are tagging things today but will be super happy they did in three years, why tagging policies should change over time, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of March 3, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 1, 2021 with Corey Quinn.