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7/16/2020
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[Last Week in AWS Extras]: The Lock-In You Don’t See
Today's email departs from the past few weeks' "hilarious" vein and drifts back towards a general analysis tone. Today's topic: lock-in! As always, should you wish to link someone
7/13/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #170: AWS Machine Learning Your Business From Inside
Good Morning! Last week saw a bunch of things, from my ridiculous Jeff Barr birthday video to my suggestion for a new AWS service to a bunch of sad things in the news. I'll be keynoting Cloud
7/8/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS Extras]: Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalker
Today's email is half whimsy, half a viable-if-outlandish solution to solve the AWS billing system's problems in one go. Honestly, at this point I can't tell if it's a completely
7/7/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS] Happy 60th Birthday Jeff Barr!
Happy birthday to one of our favorite people, AWS Chief Evangelist and VP Jeff Barr. As is our tradition here at the Duckbill Group, we've created a music video to celebrate the equation. Without
7/6/2020
14 : 37
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #169: Kicking AWS's ASS Into Space
Good morning! First, last week this newsletter crossed 20000 active subscribers. Thanks; I'm deeply moved by the fact that so many of you read my nonsense every week. Second, tomorrow AWS's
7/1/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS Extras]: Lies, Damned Lies, and Keynotes
Before we get into today's newsletter, let's pause for a minute to remember a departed friend. Seven years ago today Google Reader was taken from us. Sorely missed, and gone too soon. Rest
6/29/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #168: Oh, Honey; Help the Cops in us-west-3
Good Morning! Welcome to issue 168 of Last Week in AWS. Continuing its run of poor decision making that saw them suing a former employee under a non-compete agreement (thereby making Google seem
6/24/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS Extras]: What the #&^$ Is Happening at Oracle Cloud?
Today, we visit a recurring cloud villian--but possibly one with a redemption arc. I expect this one to be somewhat controversial; we'll see if I'm right. As always, should you wish to link
6/22/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #167: 111 Gigabytes Per Ounce
Good Morning! Welcome to issue 167 of Last Week in AWS. Today is Apple Keynote day, so I look forward to seeing who drops bad news in a few hours in the hopes that it gets buried. We also discovered a
6/17/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS Extras]: An AWS Database Safari
In today's newsletter, I take you on a journey through the various database offerings AWS has, and give my thoughts about each of them. There are a lot! You may complain that I didn't hit your
6/15/2020
14 : 37
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #165: AWS Graviton2 Clock Speeds Broadly Non-Competitive
Good Morning! Welcome to issue 166 of Last Week in AWS. Last week it came out that AWS is suing their former VP of Product Marketing under its incredibly-broad non-compete agreement. My thoughts on non
6/10/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS Extras]: AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage
One of these weeks I'll get to cover the kind of cloud analysis I really enjoy, but last week we had racial justice issues that clearly took precedence, and this week Amazon apparently can't
6/8/2020
14 : 37
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #165: Enduring the Cloud Migration Factory
Good Morning! Since my last email, folks have collectively donated tens of thousands of dollars to support racial justice. You really are the best audience in the world. Obviously this is only a start.
6/3/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS Extras]: Snarking For Racial Justice
Snarking for Racial Justice This was originally going to be a wonderfully crafted treatise on why multi-cloud is nonsense. But if we look outside in the United States, or in the headlines of any paper
6/1/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #164: AWS Security Landscapers
Good Morning! This is the 164th issue of Last Week in AWS, but that feels like a hollow observation against the backdrop of the uprising we have seen developing in the United States (this
5/27/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS Extras]: How to Compete With AWS
I'm digging the feedback I've gotten so far. By and large you all like these deep dive posts, so I suspect they're here to stay. Today's topic is on competing with AWS; it's not the
5/25/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #163: Introducing AWS SnowCannon
Good Morning! Welcome to issue 163 of Last Week in AWS. It's Memorial Day here in the US, so the country is shut down even more than it has been for the past couple of months. The AWS release
5/20/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS Extras]: When AWS Elastic Underpants launches, here's how I'll learn about it
As we all find ourselves climbing the metaphorical walls, we express our frustration in different ways. Since it's Wednesday, mine is via long-form snark. Should you want to share this post you can
5/18/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #162: Amazon Macie Some Well-Deserved Pushback
Good Morning! Welcome to issue number 162 of Last Week in AWS. This week saw an AWS online summit that was... less than it could have been, largely due to unclear expectations. There weren't any
5/13/2020
14 : 36
[Last Week in AWS Extras]: The Lost Opportunity of Amazon Kendra
Another Wednesday, another rant piece I've yeeted directly into your inbox. By far the most common request last week was to have a permalink to the post so folks could share it, so all right: it