Ooh, I can retitle it. Yes, this is real, not me having fun with the browser developer tools.
I use this account as my AWS credit dump; I'd prefer the opportunity to tell these things to ignore credits and tell me what it'd be costing me in actual dollars if we disregard the company scrip.
I can break out the highest spend card into three cards. The "per account" stuff feels odd in this org-less account. Good call on "Global" being distinct from us-east-1.
These three boxes at the bottom are... well, I like the idea in theory. In practice they all go to the same bad link referencing placeholder.com
This is now a panic moment for @awscloud marketing!
1. This evokes the old (and I say better!) box branding. 2. There is no picture of a dog. Not very Amazonian. 3. The email address is "aws at amazon dot com." Does... does that actually work / go somewhere useful?
But overall? I really, really like this refresh. Good job, @awscloud Commerce Platform!
This added a "Savings" item and I have to say I don't get what it's showing me or how calling it "Savings" aligns with what I'm seeing. Ow ow ow my brain!
I've been told that since enough has changed in how I do podcasts / video work, I should do another thread about my A/V setup (equipment and software) here at home.
Let's start with the audio path.
This is an ElectroVoice RE20 mic with a pop filter and a shock mount on it. I've been using it for a while; it's on a Røde mounting arm.
It plugs into the Cloudlifter mounted to the underside of the desk. Exciting. No buttons, so out of sight, out of mind.
Let's build something new: a screenshot repo with a custom domain. Datastore is S3, DNS is CloudFlare. Eeny meeny miney Pulumi. @PulumiCorp, you're up.
They have a handy "S3 static site" tutorial option. It's in JavaScript, with a link to the Python code. Nice!
The first command errors. Less than nice.
(It wants `pulumi new` first).
They offer sample code on GitHub. This is why I have @cassido's keyboard handy.
One of the joys of being a publicly traded company is that Amazon gets to (read as: must) file a bunch of annual reporting information, in the form of a 10-K filing. In this thread I'll read through it and summarize the interesting @awscloud bits.
Amazon thinks about its business in three segments: North America, International, and AWS.
The Alexa org presumably yearns to break free into its own business unit.
I've talked in depth previously about Amazon's post-employment non-compete agreements. They're scoped to all of Amazon.
Over the weekend I somehow hit 80K followers on this site, which is just wild to me. Five years ago I started with something like 2K, and that had taken me seven years to scrape together.
Some things I have learned along the way as the audience has grown.
There were never any real "giant surges" that led to gaining 10K followers in a week or anything like that. It was about consistently being me.
My relationship with the site has changed as well. I used to be much likelier to put any thought that crossed my mind onto Twitter.
There are inflections that come with a larger audience. There's remarkably little I can tweet these days that SOMEONE won't take issue with.
Analysts expected Amazon to post earnings of $3.61 per share; actual earnings per share is $27.75 because some enterprising @awscloud product manager figured out how to pass network traffic through *TWO* Managed NAT Gateways on its way to the internet.
A thread.
Wild that @awscloud is now a $70 billion annual run rate business. But don't worry, AWS employee friends; the market cares not a whit how well you perform your jobs.
"AWS" isn't even *mentioned* until page 2 of the announcement.
For Financial Year 2021 (which is like calendar year 2021 except boring) @awscloud grew 37% over the previous year. Yes, they've won some giant customers to help grow that, but for god's sake TURN YOUR EC2 INSTANCES OFF WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM!
"web3 / nfts are a scam" vs. "no they're not" arguments in my mentions are tiresome, so in this thread let's talk about something that's definitively a scam because I built it to be.
Here's how to embezzle money from your employer via the @awscloud Marketplace:
(Somewhere @stephenorban's phone is making the Sev 1 sound and @mosescj58 takes an antacid tablet.)
Step 1: Go grab a CentOS or Ubuntu upstream AMI and package it as your own AMI. This is left as an exercise for the reader because I can't be bothered to do that in our glorious Serverless future.