Thread by @QuinnyPig

It's time to fill out an @awscloud #reinvent survey. Let's do it!

It was not my first year attending, and my reasons for showing up are pretty clear by now.

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.

I'll definitely be back for #reinvent. And I recommend it to others, though in some cases less for its utility than as a hilarious prank.

Superlatives! I'm very sincere about my favorite part. The improvement bit might be snark.

Now a bunch of bubbles that aren't interesting. I always rate "how did you like the Speaker X keynote" with top marks. I have issues with some of the *content* but I don't want that to reflect on the speaker any.

Full credit to @ajassy. He's gone from good speaker to great speaker over the years.

But I'm pretty sure his career prospects don't really hang on my opinion any.

I'm sincere when I say the Partner Keynote helped me figure out why I was always cold on APN content.

I really liked Swami's keynote as well, but I find the entire ML space to be patently ridiculous. There *is* value there. It's not being articulated; instead it gets drowned out by massive hype.

Peter DeSantis's keynotes are always wonderful. Getting to peek at the magic behind the cloud makes it feel like Christmas.

And of course @werner's keynote struck a desperately needed note. A+ would watch again.

I am salty that #reQuinnvent was not listed here.

What about my sponsor expo nature walk?! My @jeffbarr livestream?! Nothing?

Now @awscloud requests that I stop mocking them and instead pivot to actually punching them in the metaphorical face.

It was easy for me to connect with AWS staff because I installed Amazon Chime. The rest wasn't great.

I mean... give me an ICS feed and let me add my schedule to that?

1. Cloud bills only ever seem to go up.

2. The conference is orthogonal to the very real problems @awscloud solves for its customers. I recommend it *when appropriate*.

Now a list of new services and whether I'm "not interested" (ML and IoT), "interested" (most other things), or "already actively exploring" (gp3, Cloud Shell, Proton, DevOps Guru, Lambda changes.)

In previous years partners weren't allowed to imply that the cloud was insecure. These days @awscloud themselves expresses their insecurity through questions like this.

The preferred capitalization is "Arm."

And I know Intel powers it because of the keynote pre-roll Intel ad right before they got into how much better Graviton2 is.

I'm unclear as to what "featured" means in the context of this event.

I'm also self-promotional.

I often wonder what different answers to these questions results in. "Ooh, you're new to AWS, maybe you won't remember a previous horrible misstep!"

Questions like this make me question whether @awscloud really understands big data. Or data of any size, really. Shouldn't they know this better than I do at this point?

Absolutely. I presume we'll meet on Twitter, right?