Last Week in AWS - This email will make you smarter

Hi again,

So, you’re here to keep up with the latest goings-on in AWS. Bully for you.

Welcome, fellow traveler.

I’ve rounded up a quick selection of our most popular posts, podcasts, and ponderous pontifications for you below.

Read and listen at your own peril, because the more you know about AWS, the more you’ll find yourself wondering why you didn’t choose to go into a less complex profession. Like politics. Or air traffic control.

Popular posts to feed your eyeholes

• How ConvertKit Could Lower Its $64K Monthly AWS Bill — an unsolicited look under the hood of the email service I’m using to send this very email
• Should I Pick DigitalOcean or AWS for My Next Project? — I’ve never learned how to bury the lede
• The Post AWS’s Billing Team Could Have Written, But Didn’t — how to keep your CFO from pooping an abacus
• Why Right Sizing Your Instances Is Nonsense — my shockingly contrarian take on this “best practice”
• 4 Reasons Lyft Is Smart to Pay AWS $300M — for all the skeptics in the room, let’s run the numbers

Popular podcasts to feed your ears

• [AWS Morning Brief] Networking In The Cloud Fundamentals, Part 1 — why wire cutters are nature’s best firewall, among other topics
• [Screaming In The Cloud] How Software Developers Can Negotiate Better Salaries, with Josh Doody — don’t listen to this one if you hate money

And now a bonus round for all you curious, lest you wonder “What does AWS think of Corey?” Here’s your answer.

Feel free to hit reply and let me know which post was your favorite. In fact, just go ahead and shower me with praise.

After all, it takes a lot of emotional energy to curate the best AWS news for you every week. If you think your AWS bill is high, you should see my therapy invoices.

Living my truth,
Corey

P.S. Here’s a hot tip for keeping yourself comfy at re:Invent. Don’t say it came from me.