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. How long have I been their customer
“Customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied, even when they report being happy and business is great.” — Jeff Bezos How dissatisfied am I?
If you're going to ask me a question, the least I can do is answer honestly. Parents recommend that their non-parenting friends have kids
Ever notice that the @awscloud bill only ever goes one direction? I am likekly to use more AWS
I have used all of these and oh so many more over the past three months. I will choose to rep Route 53. I have used Cognito, Lambda, and Route 53
I know how Thought Leadership works. The first rule of Serverless Club is you never stop running
Tell me you phoned in your survey creation without telling me you phoned in your survey creation. Route 53 remains the premier database AWS offers.
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. The only reason I would recommend Cognito in its current sta
If I didn't want to talk to @awscloud people I've made some terrible career decisions. Will I talk to them about my answers?
We're 10-12ish. It's hard to keep track some days. How many people work here?
"You have no idea how services companies work, do you..."
I don't know how, but somehow I read this question as condescending. We're bootstrapped here.
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. What clouds have I used? "Yes."
I guess *technically* I have final say, but I don't exactly hire people here to overrule their judgement, y'know? Who has final say about infrastructure decisions?
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. Will I join their feedback council?
And it blew me out to the customer council and ended the survey.
I better get my $50 gift card!

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11 May
And now, I present tonight's Shitpost Thread Extravaganza:

Uncomfortable corporate realizations.
"People are our most important asset" claims every company everywhere.

Go look up what they pay engineers and IT people vs. what they pay the folks who work in HR.
Consider how much time in your career you've spent preparing for job interviews as a candidate.

Then consider the same thing, but on the hiring side.
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10 May
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.)
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This is a *terrific* question that deserves a thread of its own.
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.
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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.)
Read 4 tweets
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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