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16 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
I sometimes say that from a pure technology perspective @GCPcloud is 3-5 years ahead of @awscloud.

When it comes to Cloud Shell, they’re ahead by 5 years and 2 months.

cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/10/live-f…
And there’s no shame in losing to Google at technology sometimes!

But @Azure was there 3.5 years ago too.

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/pub…
And yikes, @OracleCloud released Cloud Shell back in February.

blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastr…
But at least you—Jesus fuck AWS, @IBMcloud was here six months ago?!

ibm.com/cloud/blog/ann…

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18 Dec
So @awscloud likes to make a big deal about "the first launch of #reInvent." Let's do something else: the last launch of #requinnvent. That's right, I'm dumb enough to launch a product during #reInvent.

Let's start by talking about cost management SaaS tools. A thread...
I've been on record for a while as saying that they suck, because they do. "Percent of your @awscloud bill" pricing, they try to do way too much (you don't use 90% of it), and they're all trying to be Expensive and Complicated Cost Explorer.
Worst of all, a tool can't replace a person in analyzing your AWS costs. There's no API for business insight, and attempting to install one into your staff apparently violates a bunch of laws.
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16 Dec
And now, a nitpicker's guide to @awscloud's new Cloud Shell offering, announced today at #reinvent.
I was surprised and delighted to see it today. Yesterday, I was surprised and delighted to see the new console search.

Both product teams were apparently surprised but not so delighted to see each other. Image
Sadly there's no data on the persistence guarantee of that 1GB of storage. "THAT'S WHERE ALL OF MY PRIVATE KEYS LIVED!" shrieks the future customer with even worse workflow patterns than me. Image
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15 Dec
In 2017, @werner gave a keynote that foretold the future—#theWernerProphecies. What will he reveal at #reinvent today?
Welcome to my #requinnvent livetweet thread.

This #reinvent DJ set was filmed before COVID, he's just wearing a mask because he's super anal about not getting dust on any of his records.
The hidden benefit of wearing a mask to DJ is that you can beatbox along with the music without spitting all over your equipment.
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10 Dec
It's the AWS infrastructure keynote with Peter DeSantis, and this is my #reQuinnvent livetweet thread. Like an @awscloud groundhog, this is the one day a year he comes out of the data center to tell us what he's seen, look for his shadow, and use the bathroom.
♪ ♫ ♬ He's coming out of his cage, and he's feeling just fine... ♪ ♫ ♬
#reinvent
Music in a minor key about adversity is a great choice to kick off a keynote about infrastructure. Hardware is always depressing; it's a real kick in the rack nuts. #reinvent
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10 Dec
So here's an @awscloud Lambda@Edge problem that's haunted me for ages. A thread, as I thrash and attempt to learn the things I don't know...
Curling the official @awscloud status page takes .3 seconds to complete. If I curl stop.lying.cloud, that takes 23 seconds to complete. And it absolutely should not.
The domain points to a CloudFront distribution. That distribution invokes a Lambda function that returns HTML with my suitable modifications to the payload.
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9 Dec
And now the Data Analytics leadership session at #reinvent--oh what the damn hell. @rahulpathak didn't dress up for our podcast recording nearly so well!
This entire slide also applies to the @awscloud bill.
"Here's how Moderna uses our services to fight the pandemic, so you can feel better about using those same services to show ads to people."
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