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Feb 9 10 tweets 5 min read
I see @awscloud decided to just throw an axe into my week by redoing the billing console. I tentatively approve. shitposting.pictures/7wsXS7r3UOhC2
Ooh, I can retitle it. Yes, this is real, not me having fun with the browser developer tools. Image
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. Image
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. Image
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 Image
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? Image
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!

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Ooh, now it's life for The @DuckbillGroup's primary organization.

I feel like "38" is a paltry number of AWS services. We can do better! Image
Super glad that the actual @awscloud billing work costs us more than my shitposting does. Image

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Feb 10
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. Image
It plugs into the Cloudlifter mounted to the underside of the desk. Exciting. No buttons, so out of sight, out of mind. Image
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Feb 8
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.
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Feb 8
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.

Here's what they view that as covering:
Read 23 tweets
Feb 8
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.
Read 12 tweets
Feb 3
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!
Read 32 tweets
Feb 2
"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.
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