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19 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Okay, first @awscloud recruiting outreach to the newsletter email address. That wins points!
(Just for clarity: nobody at AWS recruiting has done anything wrong here. I'm just amused at how much of a terrifying corner case I am.)
I promise you, there is no (reasonable) checklist item for "has this candidate built a business on top of making fun of our shortcomings."
Hey, there's a reason I don't ever name the recruiters. If someone wants to reach out to have a sincere conversation around "would you ever work here" I don't want them to feel like they're taking a risk to do it.

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21 Jul
An observation on legacy: I have never once heard a story about Jeff Bezos that made me say "he seems like a nice person."

@aselipsky? Too many times to count.
@ajassy? Seen it myself firsthand.

But never Jeff.
You can never get a complete picture from the outside. I get that.

But you can absolutely get glimpses of the real person behind the public persona by talking to the people who've worked with them. Given enough data points, you can tie them together into a reasonable story.
The question is "how do you want to be remembered after you're gone?"

For me, I really hope the answer to that question isn't tied to my job, but instead the people I've encountered along the way.
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20 Jul
I've been hoping someone would build something like this to show relative @awscloud service costs. A thread!
"Why not you?"

I can't very well do it myself. At The @DuckbillGroup, our clients these days start at ~$1 million a month in spend or so. I'm very hesitant to give guidance to small accounts based upon what large ones are doing. It's a very slanted view of the industry!
That said, the data I'm seeing in here tracks with what I'm seeing in our client environments. As the post says, "this aligns with other cloud consulting organizations @getvantage has spoken to." We're one of them. They're spot on for the big items.
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20 Jul
I have permission to go on a bit of a rant about this tweet-question, so let's get right to it.

I've heard of worse ideas but not recently. A thread.
The big problem that enterprises have is that the @awscloud bill is a game of Corporate Telephone between the person who receives the bill but has no context, and the person who can impact the bill who's five nodes away.

"Let's make sure that last person can never see the bill!"
Enterprise cloud deployments have their own fair share of problems, don't get me wrong. I just have a very hard time believing that "too many of our employees are looking at the bill" is in that list.
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16 Jul
So @FarrahC32 is a relatively new @awscloud employee and mistakenly believes that people know she works there because of her badge.

In reality, that's not how people know you work at AWS. A thread!
When you catch up with people you haven't seen since before the pandemic, you start off by handing them a document of what you worked on for them to read first.
Suddenly your favorite restaurant is "The Cheesecake Factory" because it's the only place that has a menu long enough.
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15 Jul
Customers: Fix your cross-AZ data transfer pricing, it's killing us.

AWS: Here are four more ways to run containers!
Customers: We'd really like to understand how all of these services interact together.

AWS: We've scheduled re:inforce and the Americas Online Summit for the same days!
Customers: I live in fear of the free tier billing me.

AWS: You set up a Managed NAT Gateway and now you owe us approximately "Guam."
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15 Jul
DLP (Data Loss Prevention) is a failed industry and if you disagree you're almost certainly selling it.
So what is DLP?

Generally it's an appliance, software, etc. that makes sure that your employees don't copy sensitive data out of your environment.

Sounds good in theory, right?
In practice it's crap.

It has to MitM secure connections, so that's awesome. (A one stop breach!)
It has to recognize what the sensitive data is in the first place. (Is that a SSN or just a nine digit number?)
It has to work everywhere your sensitive data lives.
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