Take an @awscloud survey and receive $50 in credits? That'll pay for the better part of a Managed NAT Gateway! It's threadin' time...
It's never reassuring when your cloud provider greets you with a "who're you, again?"
"How familiar with our nonsense are you?"
Oh so very, very familiar.
“Customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied, even when they report being happy and business is great.” — Jeff Bezos
If you're going to ask me a question, the least I can do is answer honestly.
Ever notice that the @awscloud bill only ever goes one direction?
I have used all of these and oh so many more over the past three months. I will choose to rep Route 53.
I know how Thought Leadership works.
Tell me you phoned in your survey creation without telling me you phoned in your survey creation.
I do love the Cognito team members I've met, but I'm sorry: your service is Quite Bad. Real friends stab you in the front.
If I didn't want to talk to @awscloud people I've made some terrible career decisions.
We're 10-12ish. It's hard to keep track some days.
"You have no idea how services companies work, do you..."
I don't know how, but somehow I read this question as condescending.
My role is always "Other." It's the only thing that makes sense / is honest.
I've not heard of Render before. This is a weird marketing campaign for them but I dig it.
I guess *technically* I have final say, but I don't exactly hire people here to overrule their judgement, y'know?
They have so many options for what kind of company I am it doesn't fit in a screenshot. "Media and Entertainment" but almost certainly not the kind they're thinking of.
I could have sworn I was already on their Customer Council, but sure; I'll sign up again so I can get two meals at the events.
And it blew me out to the customer council and ended the survey.
I better get my $50 gift card!
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Here at The @DuckbillGroup we have a new Principal Cloud Economist starting in two weeks. Guess who it is in a reply and win a @LastWeekinAWS swag pack.
Let the speculation begin!
I will point out that this person is subject to the infamous @awscloud noncompete.
AWS has a history of calling new employers to low-key threaten them out of not hiring ex-employees or restrict their work.
I'm thrilled to negotiate via hitting AWS with a chair: 833-AWS-BILL
AWS is welcome to tell me what types of work this person should not be allowed to perform.
I in turn will tell them what kinds of chair I have handy.
(Note that we are not asking, will not ask, and do not want NDA'd material. That's different.)
Here at the @DuckbillGroup we're intentional about hiring. We're fully remote, we work largely asynchronously, and we solve fun / fascinating / maddening problems.
We're bootstrapped (no outside investment), so we hire slowly and with great intention / care.
There are two primary issues with hiring junior folks here.
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.)
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.