Listen "The Cloudcast #305 - Last Week in AWS"
Episode Synopsis
Aaron and Brian talk with Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig, Cloud Economist/Last Week with AWS) about the complexity of AWS bills, the rapid expansion of AWS services, the challenges of “best practices” and the biggest AWS trends and mistakes.Show Links:Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos[DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $79)[FREE] Alexa Development for Absolute BeginnersThe Quinn Advisory Group[newsletter] Last Week in AWSShow NotesTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and how you decided to get into the “saving money” or “economics of technology” business?Topic 2 - AWS is sort of a strange technology company to explain to someone that comes from traditional IT, in that they just release new features randomly. So it’s sort of like a SaaS, but it’s also like a big toolbox. Your newsletter helps, but how do you find that people are to keep up with the randomness of all the features?Topic 3 - Do you think that AWS eventually gets too complicated for the broader market?Topic 4 - Beyond the issues around costs/pricing, what are the big AWS trends that you’re tracking, or that your clients are using to improve their businesses?Topic 5 - What are some of the big mistakes that companies make in using various AWS services, whether they are cost-related or security-related or availability/performance-related?Topic 6 - Let’s play a quick speed round before we end the show. Give us a sense of pace of growth for each of these AWS services: - Lambda- Big Data (Dynamo, Redshift, Kinesis)- IoT- Snowball or Snowmobile (raw data movement)- ECS (containers)Feedback?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet
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