Wait so the way around @awscloud’s Lambda@Edge’s shortcomings was to just route around it with a brand new offering?!
Lambda@Edge functions only executing in the regions themselves is also news to me. SO WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO DEPLOY THEM THEN?!
Apparently these will also take forever to deploy, but there's a "test" stage where you can get rapid feedback on what you've built. Huzzah?
So to review:
* Cheaper / simpler billing ($0.10 per 1 million invocations)
* Actually runs in the edge POPs
* All logs go to us-east-1
* Test workflow for faster iteration
* Has a free tier
* Confusingly named like CloudFlare Functions
* Mostly doesn't hate customers

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5 May
It's @awscloud billing week. Ask me anything about your bill!
No, but they can be shared to other accounts within the AWS Organizations.

Astute folks will note that you can buy RIs / SPs in accounts without support, and apply them to accounts with support to save money.

docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbill…

Personally I prefer @digitalocean for the use case; they embrace their fixed-fee model willingly rather than begrudgingly.

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4 May
And now I shame @mike_julian, @nerdypaws, @jesse_derose and myself with...

A teardown analysis of the Duckbill Group's @awscloud bill for April. $2144 bill from AWS
Big spenders are RDS (up $200 a month), Fargate, EC2, Glue.

I previously talked about my Lambda Whoopsie that cost ~$80 more than it should have last month. That's a shame badge that's easier to pay than burn AWS credibility asking the Lambda team to fix it. Bill by services
(I resolved the problem by discovering it was a JS callback / event loop issue so I rewrote the thing in Python. This is a Thought Leader Best Practice.)
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3 May
"If you're going to swim with the sharks, make sure you give Amazon plenty of FinSpace" as the saying goes.

I'm sure Amazon FinSpace has a much less interesting tagline, but that's mine. Interesting service, highly niche-focused.

docs.aws.amazon.com/finspace/index…
The @awscloud marketing page isn't up yet, but the user guide speaks a lot about things that FinServ doesn't care nearly so much about (ETL and data lake issues) as they do other things (supporting insecure FTP from their partners for transaction data runs nightly).
This is a fascinating release, just because it focuses so clearly on a specific industry segment (a vast and lucrative one, to be sure; if you haven't worked in this space you'd be forgiven for underestimating it).

This is very clearly targeted to some customers, not the rest.
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30 Apr
So I want to talk a bit tonight about college degrees.

Let me begin with the obvious: I don't have one. Today that's a fun story; my 20s were harder as a result.

It's clear that a degree makes you more employable than no degree.
But I've spoken with a few people lately who aren't happy with their current jobs and are toying with going back to school for a(nother) degree.

Slow down a second, Hasty Pudding; let me unpack that one for a minute.
A degree is expensive; I'm not going to do the math for you on that one. But it's also a lot of time that you're spending not making money, in most cases.

I've spoken to several people with two degrees who are convinced that a third will make them more employable.
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29 Apr
Today is Amazon's Earnings day, and true to form I will livetweet the call!

Will @awscloud be spun off?

Will the powerpoint slides feature a new template?

Will analysts remember that Amazon has a Cloud division?

Stay tuned for another episode of "As The Cloud Yearns"
(Periodic reminder that the single stock I own outside of an index fund is six shares of $AMZN that I've held for years. Not for any hope of financial gain, but because one glorious day I will shitpost via shareholder resolution.)
AWS earnings beat estimates at $13.5B for 2021 Q1 because nobody listens to me and turns their EC2 instances off when they're done with them.
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29 Apr
So I make fun of @IBM a lot, but an awful lot of that is based on my perception of them as an *institution*.
They're eternal, for all practical purposes; it feels like making fun of a mountain. What's the mountain care?

But they've done a lot of neat stuff.
I talk about being a terrible employee, but probably the best job I ever had was @TaosTech.

IBM acquired them recently, and the folks I know are happy as clams.
One of our great consulting clients was @InstanaHQ; those folks are *SHARP*.

IBM acquired them. I have heard no wailing or gnashing of teeth.
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