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22 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
A great question. Let's find out. A thread!
Okay, so I've pulled every "what's new" release into a JSON file, then opened that in @tableau.

I suck at querying this in attractive ways, but December 24th and 25th are both empty dating back to 2004. Image
This also lets us answer fun questions like "gee, when did @awscloud notice that @SnowflakeDB was kicking the crap out of RedShift?" Image
"When did the @awscloud service team bonus plan start including 'regional expansions of the service' in their comp structure?" Image
"Is anyone still paying attention to SES?" Image

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23 Dec
It's time to fill out an @awscloud #reinvent survey. Let's do it! Image
It was not my first year attending, and my reasons for showing up are pretty clear by now. Image
It was a challenge to be more spiteful than a few of the service names, but I managed.

3 weeks was WAY too long. I almost died.

And I attended to watch specific people speak, not for specific sessions. That's why Speaker search is so important. Image
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23 Dec
Whoa, this article from an @awscloud insider is really something. Thread!

logicmag.io/commons/inside…
It directionally aligns with conversations I've had with a lot of folks internally. And the anonymous Amazonian raises a lot of points that honestly paint AWS in a pretty flattering light.
There are some problems with it, and there's basically zero chance they didn't unmask themselves. How many @awscloud cybersecurity folks use Sioux Falls as their shorthand for "Bumfuck, Nowhere," and turns of phrase like "Companies don't like to have their whole ass be shown?"
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23 Dec
It feels like it might be Thread of Uncomfortable @awscloud Truths time again.
Now that #reInvent has subsided, you get to choose between CDK, sam-cli, Serverless framework, Proton, Service Catalog, Service Catalog App Registry, and SAR.

Making that decision is way more entertaining than doing your job.
Now that AWS has begun naming services after things shouted on the factory floor (Lookout for Metrics/Equipment/Vision), next year we can expect "Who the Hell Parked in my Spot," a container pre-empting service.
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22 Dec
I've decided I'm going to start selling software as if I were the Cyberpunk 2077 developers.

Please start by using my Stripe webcart to send me $70.
Okay, so the software I sold you *claimed* to help fix your @awscloud bill, but it crashes unless you run the script on FreeBSD.

I am very sorry for the inconvenience. Please stand by while I work on a patch.
After a lot of tweaking, this bash script now works on Ubuntu 14.04.

The patch itself is 22GB because I don't know what git-rebase does and I got sloppy with my git-adds somehow. Thank you for your business, please continue to be patient.
Read 14 tweets
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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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