The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

Join Pete and Jesse as they launch a new AWS Morning Brief podcast series called Friday From the Field, which examines how organizations are using the cloud and what some of their major pain points are. In this episode, Pete and Jesse discuss how even the best companies only tag 90% of their resources, what the cost management circle of pain is, what it was like for Pete to work somewhere where the gross margin was -175%, the role architecture decisions plays in cloud spend, the four levers that influence cloud costs within your organization, why it’s important to understand the cost implications of product decisions, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of January 13, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 11, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete and Jesse for a lively discussion about a platform you might have heard of called Kuberentes. They touch upon why just because Google does something doesn’t mean your three-person startup should do the same, why Pete thinks Kubernetes is great if you’re inside a data center, why treating AWS like a bare-metal server isn’t the best approach, what happens with data when developers don’t know how to use Kubernetes, what Pete’s biggest fear about using Kubernetes is, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of January 6, 2021.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 4, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete, Jesse, and Amy as they continue their discussion about the #awswishlist hashtag and @awswishlist Twitter account and talk about how computers are great when they do what you want them to do but not always when they do what you tell them to do, why Pete is keen on a potential service that lets you download data from various third-party locations directly into S3, why a serverless version of Elasticsearch might be awesome, why the AWS status page should just be thumbs up or thumbs down emojis, what Jesse hopes to see in AWS next year, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 30, 2020

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 28, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

Join Pete, Jesse, and Amy as they discuss the merits of the AWS Wishlist Twitter account (@awswishlist) and associated hashtag (#awswishlist). Find out why the hashtag is great for product managers at AWS, why it’s awesome that AWS actually engages with the hashtag, what AWS feature requests are on Pete, Jesse, and Amy’s wishlists, why AWS needs to release documentation that clearly outlines which resources are taggable and which aren’t, the one way you can capture spend for resources that aren’t taggable, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of December 23, 2020

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 21, 2020 with Corey Quinn.