Thread by @QuinnyPig

And we're back for the @awscloud #awssummit!

@ajassy and Matt Garman join us for a fireside chat.

You learn a lot about people by their video backgrounds.

Matt joins us from his therapist's couch, while @ajassy's background teaches us about a third hobby of his! #awssummit

He famously likes "sports" and "buffalo wings," but those are generic, bland descriptors that are just... undifferentiated. #awssummit

No, it's clear that @ajassy spends his free time raiding architectural dig sites and stealing artifacts. #awssummit

"Who's this Matt Garman fellow" you might reasonably ask.

He used to be the @awscloud VP of Compute Services; now he's the VP of Sales and Marketing.

He's also my officially-assigned AWS Nemesis. #awssummit

"Wait, nemesis?"

No, "AWS Nemesis." At re:Invent last year, Matt Garman is the only person who declined a request for one of my open-mouth selfies; now his career is skyrocketing upward. This portends dark things for my brand. #awssummit

My actual nemesis is the fierest of competitors in the arena of AWS Bill analysys: @msexcel.

I digress. #awssummit

Matt: "What do customers slip up on as they migrate to the cloud?"

@ajassy: Fighting gravity. 'We can do it ourselves cheaper and better and faster!' is a fallacy. #awssummit

"Often you're very proud of the infrastructure you've already built, and view change as a personal threat." YES. #awssummit

Look, of COURSE @ajassy has to say that--but I don't, and he's completely right.

A passing @ajassy reference to "outages other providers have experienced," in a glancing blow to @awscloud competitors.

He's still angling for a blow against his PERSONAL competitors: several countries' antiquity authorities.

#awssummit

While @ajassy cites "having an origin in retail" that gives them an advantage over their competition, but I suspect the greater factor is that @awscloud already hit these outage and sudden-inrush cases almost a decade ago.

This is what experience counts for. #awssummit

Now @ajassy is waxing poetic about how much ML is going to change everything.

I'm a skeptic, obviously. #awssummit

"Speed matters a lot" says Matt Garman, knowing full well that it doesn't matter what he says next because the rest of this tweet is OF COURSE going to be about CloudTrail logging events. #awssummit

"You have to hire builders: people who invent, fix things that are wrong, understand that launch is just the starting line." --@ajassy

"Hahahah launch is what now?" --@gcpcloud #awssummit

Talking about the idea of one-way doors vs. two-way doors.

Experiment. Fail. Understand most are fixable. --@ajassy #awssummit

"Big companies can indeed move fast if they're committed to it." --@ajassy

The responses to this tweet should be telling. #awssummit

COFID19 changes:

"Videoconferencing is changing how we work." @ajassy alks about how it levels remote folks from in-person.

Mentions virtual couples dates with his wife and other couples. That's a fantastic idea that I think I'm going to steal. Not joking. #awssummit

Now @ajassy is talking about what's behind him. "It's made completely of bottlecaps, made by a local artist."

"Yeah, sure it is" responds Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities, and continues building their case. #awssummit

And suddenly the conversation is over. Thanks for tolerating me! #awssummit