A teardown analysis of the Duckbill Group's @awscloud bill for April.
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.
(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.)
$1,885.05 is our client account series, $57.76 is my "toybox" account for horrifying experiments, $98.69 is the one I do most of the newsletter work within. @mike_julian's account holds an unreasonable $1.65 in S3 charges.
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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.
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.
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.
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.