The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

Join Pete and Jesse as they continue their stint as co-hosts of the AWS Morning Brief podcast with a conversation about the pros and cons of certifications. They touch upon the sheer number of AWS certifications that exist, how the certification landscape has changed over the years, instances when certifications can be particularly helpful, how certifications can help organizations achieve compliance, who might be a good candidate for going for a certification, how certifications are table stakes for certain opportunities, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of November 4, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 2, 2020 with Courtney Wilburn.

Join Pete and Jesse as they take over the AWS Morning Brief podcast with a discussion about Amazon QuickSight, a business intelligence tool in AWS. They talk about why business intelligence tools are beneficial in the first place, what the reaction is like at re:Invent when AWS announces a new service, how Tableau is basically a box of legos without an instruction booklet, the pros and cons of QuickSight and some of the shortcomings Pete and Jesse don’t understand, why The Duckbill Group decided to skip over Looker when evaluating BI tools, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of October 28th, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 26, 2020 with Ceora Ford.

Join Pete and Jesse as they take over the AWS Morning Brief podcast with a lively discussion about the best and worst ways to incentivize teams. They touch upon how companies care so much about cloud cost optimization while often failing to pay the same amount of attention to incentives, the difference between incentivizing time to close vs. time to first response, why your incentives should be positive reinforcement and not negative reinforcement, how Pete earned the nickname Captain COGS at a previous employer, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of October 21st, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 19, 2020 with guest host Brianna McCullough.

Join Pete and Jesse as they continue their examination of a new AWS offering: AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. In addition to talking about must-watch break dancing movies from the 1980s, they touch upon how the new service is basic at this point in time and why that’s a good thing, what AWS could do to improve the alerting feature on this offering, why the term “root cause” should actually be “contributing factor,” how users are given the option to train the machine learning model if they want to, what Pete and Jesse would add to the service, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of October 14th, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 12, 2020 with guest host Veliswa Boya.