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.
We now return to my more typical Twitter fare. Forgive the moment of reflection.
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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.
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.
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.
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.