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AWS Morning Brief

613 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings

The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.

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Episodes

EBS Volumes

December 23, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. Sponsors ExtraHop Linode Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AW...

Some Cloud Shells Take Years to Form

December 21, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 21, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

Ask a Cloud Economist: Cost Attribution in AWS

December 18, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MB

Links Follow Pete + Jesse on Twitter Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Linode. You might be familiar with Linode; they’ve been around for almost 20 years. They offer Cloud in a way that makes sense rather than a way that is actively ridiculous by trying to throw everything at a wall and see what sticks. Their pricing winds up being a lot more transparent—not to mention lower—their performance kicks the crap out of most other things in this space...

Is ECS Deprecated?

December 16, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. Sponsors Veeam NewRelic Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS...

SageMaker SageFactory

December 14, 2020 11:00 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 14, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

The Kinesis Outage

December 11, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MB

Links Follow Last Week In AWS on Twitter AWS Outage Message "Kinesis Outage" by Ryan Frantz Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Linode. You might be familiar with Linode; they’ve been around for almost 20 years. They offer Cloud in a way that makes sense rather than a way that is actively ridiculous by trying to throw everything at a wall and see what sticks. Their pricing winds up being a lot more transparent—not to mention lower—their performa...

The Google Disease Afflicting AWS

December 09, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. Sponsors Veeam Linode Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS b...

Hit by the Conference Trainium

December 07, 2020 11:00 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 7, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

AWS S3 Storage Lens: The Best Service Not Announced at AWS Storage Day

December 04, 2020 11:00 - 22 minutes - 30.4 MB

Links Follow Last Week In AWS on Twitter Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored by ExtraHop. ExtraHop provides threat detection and response for the Enterprise (not the starship). On-prem security doesn’t translate well to cloud or multi-cloud environments, and that’s not even counting IoT. ExtraHop automatically discovers everything inside the perimeter, including your cloud workloads and IoT devices, detects these threats up to 35 percent faster, and helps you act immediate...

The Most Under-Appreciated AWS Service

December 02, 2020 11:00 - 5 minutes - 8.03 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. Sponsors New Relic Linode Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your A...

Punched in the Faith

November 30, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 30, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

AWS Services for Thanksgiving Dinner

November 27, 2020 11:00 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MB

Links Follow Last Week In AWS on Twitter Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored by ExtraHop. ExtraHop provides threat detection and response for the Enterprise (not the starship). On-prem security doesn’t translate well to cloud or multi-cloud environments, and that’s not even counting IoT. ExtraHop automatically discovers everything inside the perimeter, including your cloud workloads and IoT devices, detects these threats up to 35 percent faster, and helps you act immediate...

Secrets of AWS Contract Negotiation

November 25, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. Sponsors Gravitational Linode Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower yo...

GitHub's Basement

November 23, 2020 11:00 - 8 minutes - 12.4 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 23, 2020 with Corey Quinn.

AWS Storage Day 2020 Part 2

November 20, 2020 11:00 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MB

Links Follow Last Week In AWS on Twitter Transcript Corey: Gravitational is now Teleport because when way more people have heard of your product than your company, maybe that’s a sign it’s a time to change your branding. Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource, anywhere on the planet. You know, like VPNs were supposed to do before we all started working from home, and the VPNs melted like glaciers. Teleport provides a unified access plane for developers...

What I Don't Get About the AWS Gateway Load Balancer

November 18, 2020 11:00 - 6 minutes - 9.12 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. Sponsors Gravitational Linode Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower yo...

The Place to be for the Important Deets with Brooke Mitchell

November 16, 2020 11:00 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 16, 2020 with Brooke Mitchell.

AWS Storage Day 2020

November 13, 2020 11:00 - 19 minutes - 27.6 MB

Links Follow Last Week In AWS on Twitter Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Catchpoint. Look, 80 percent of performance and availability issues don’t occur within your application code in your data center itself. It occurs well outside those boundaries, so it’s difficult to understand what’s actually happening. What Catchpoint does is makes it easier for enterprises to detect, identify, and of course, validate how reachable their application is, and of course,...

Why AWS Announces Regions in Advance

November 11, 2020 11:00 - 6 minutes - 9.42 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. Sponsors nOps Linode Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS bi...

The AWS Tea is Hot. Some, calling it Lipton.

November 09, 2020 11:00 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 9, 2020 with Jam Leomi.

Certifications: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

November 06, 2020 11:00 - 24 minutes - 34.4 MB

Links Follow Last Week In AWS on Twitter Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Catchpoint. Look, 80 percent of performance and availability issues don’t occur within your application code in your data center itself. It occurs well outside those boundaries, so it’s difficult to understand what’s actually happening. What Catchpoint does is makes it easier for enterprises to detect, identify, and of course, validate how reachable their application is, and of course, ...

The Other Side of Paternity Leave

November 04, 2020 11:00 - 6 minutes - 8.62 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. Sponsors nOps Linode Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group to help lower your AWS bi...

Did He Put Your Million Dollar Check In Someone Else's Box

November 02, 2020 11:00 - 10 minutes - 13.9 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 2, 2020 with Courtney Wilburn.

Blinded by QuickSight

October 30, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MB

Links Last Week In AWS Twitter: https://twitter.com/lastweekinaws https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/ Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Catchpoint. Look, 80 percent of performance and availability issues don’t occur within your application code in your data center itself. It occurs well outside those boundaries, so it’s difficult to understand what’s actually happening. What Catchpoint does is makes it easier for enterprises to detect, identify, and of course, ...

Reader Mailbag: Savings Plans (AMB Extras)

October 28, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 9.32 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/reader-mailbag-savings-plans  Sponsors StrongDM: https://strongdm.com Linode: https://www.linode.com Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) S...

Not Throwing Away My Shot!

October 26, 2020 10:00 - 10 minutes - 14 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 26, 2020 with Ceora Ford.

Best and Worst Ways to Incentivize Teams

October 23, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MB

Links Last Week In AWS Twitter: https://twitter.com/lastweekinaws Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Catchpoint. Look, 80 percent of performance and availability issues don’t occur within your application code in your data center itself. It occurs well outside those boundaries, so it’s difficult to understand what’s actually happening. What Catchpoint does is makes it easier for enterprises to detect, identify, and of course, validate how reachable their appli...

Reader Mailbag: Potpourri (AMB Extras)

October 21, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 11 MB

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/reader-mailbag-potpourri  Sponsors nOps: https://www.nops.io/  Linode: https://www.linode.com Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our ...

Don't Interrupt Me... Last Week In (A)s I (W)as(S)aying

October 19, 2020 10:00 - 14 minutes - 20.6 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 19, 2020 with guest host Brianna McCullough.

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection 2: Electric Boogaloo

October 16, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MB

About Corey Quinn Over the course of my career, I’ve worn many different hats in the tech world: systems administrator, systems engineer, director of technical operations, and director of DevOps, to name a few. Today, I’m a cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, the author of the weekly Last Week in AWS newsletter, and the host of two podcasts: Screaming in the Cloud and, you guessed it, AWS Morning Brief, which you’re about to listen to. Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsore...

Reader Mailbag: Accounts (AMB Extras)

October 14, 2020 10:00 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MB

Links Mentioned Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/reader-mailbag-accounts/ Sponsors StrongDM: https://strongdm.com Linode: https://www.linode.com Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig...

Snark Interrupted

October 12, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 12, 2020 with guest host Veliswa Boya.

The Cloud is Not Just Another Data Center (Whiteboard Confessional)

October 09, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MB

About Corey Quinn Over the course of my career, I’ve worn many different hats in the tech world: systems administrator, systems engineer, director of technical operations, and director of DevOps, to name a few. Today, I’m a cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, the author of the weekly Last Week in AWS newsletter, and the host of two podcasts: Screaming in the Cloud and, you guessed it, AWS Morning Brief, which you’re about to listen to. Links A Cloud Guru Blog post, Lift and Sh...

Reader Mailbag: AWS Services (AMB Extras)

October 07, 2020 10:00 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB

Links Mentioned Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/reader-mailbag-aws-services/ Sponsors StrongDM: https://strongdm.com Linode: https://www.linode.com Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter...

No Hateration or Holleration in this Dancery

October 05, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 5th, 2020 featuring guest host Angela Andrews.

Turn on AWS Cost Anomaly Detection Right Now—It’s Free (Whiteboard Confessional)

October 02, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MB

About Corey Quinn Over the course of my career, I’ve worn many different hats in the tech world: systems administrator, systems engineer, director of technical operations, and director of DevOps, to name a few. Today, I’m a cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, the author of the weekly Last Week in AWS newsletter, and the host of two podcasts: Screaming in the Cloud and, you guessed it, AWS Morning Brief, which you’re about to listen to. Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsor...

Paternity Leave (AMB Extras)

September 30, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes - 13.4 MB

Links Mentioned Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/paternity-leave/ Sponsors StrongDM: https://strongdm.com New Relic: https://newrelic.com Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypi...

Cost Anam--Anom--screw it, Cost Outlier Detection

September 28, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes - 13.3 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 27th, 2020.

Inspecting Amazon Detective (Whiteboard Confessional)

September 25, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes - 34 MB

Links The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Catchpoint. Look, 80 percent of performance and availability issues don’t occur within your application code in your data center itself. It occurs well outside those boundaries, so it’s difficult to understand what’s actually happening. What Catchpoint does is makes it easier for enterprises to detect, identify, and of course, validate how reachable their application is...

Reader Mailbag: Billing (AMB Extras)

September 23, 2020 10:00 - 12 minutes - 18.2 MB

Links Mentioned Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/reader-mailbag-billing/ Sponsors A Cloud Guru: https://acloudguru.com New Relic: https://newrelic.com Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@qui...

EC2 Gets t4gging Support

September 21, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 21, 2020.

Chef Gets Gobbled Up (Whiteboard Confessional)

September 18, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 32 MB

Transcript Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Catchpoint look, 80% of performance and availability issues don't occur within your application code in your data center itself. It occurs well outside those boundaries. So it's difficult to understand what's actually happening. What Catchpoint does is makes it easier for enterprises to detect, identify, and of course validate how reachable their application is. And of course, how happy their users are. It helps you get visible and to ...

Is the AWS Free Tier Really Free? (AMB Extras)

September 16, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes - 13.4 MB

Links Mentioned Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/is-the-aws-free-tier-really-free/ Sponsors A Cloud Guru: https://acloudguru.com New Relic: https://newrelic.com Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Core...

Going Flat Out Like A Koala In Season

September 14, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 8.83 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 14th, 2020.

Pulling Back the Curtain on Palantir (Whiteboard Confessional)

September 11, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 31.7 MB

About Corey Quinn Over the course of my career, I’ve worn many different hats in the tech world: systems administrator, systems engineer, director of technical operations, and director of DevOps, to name a few. Today, I’m a cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, the author of the weekly Last Week in AWS newsletter, and the host of two podcasts: Screaming in the Cloud and, you guessed it, AWS Morning Brief, which you’re about to listen to. Links Trend Micro ChaosSearch @QuinnyPi...

Dipping my Toes into Digital Ocean (AMB Extras)

September 09, 2020 10:00 - 14 minutes - 19.8 MB

Links Mentioned Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/dipping-my-toes-into-the-digitalocean  Sponsors A Cloud Guru: https://acloudguru.com New Relic: https://newrelic.com Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow...

Amazon Repeatedly Stomps on Own Schmeckel

September 07, 2020 10:00 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 7, 2020.

SnowflakeDB’s S-1: The Fine Print (Whiteboard Confessional)

September 04, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 30.3 MB

About Corey Quinn Over the course of my career, I’ve worn many different hats in the tech world: systems administrator, systems engineer, director of technical operations, and director of DevOps, to name a few. Today, I’m a cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, the author of the weekly Last Week in AWS newsletter, and the host of two podcasts: Screaming in the Cloud and, you guessed it, AWS Morning Brief, which you’re about to listen to. Links Trend Micro Cloud One™ ChaosSearch...

8 AWS Terms Project Managers Need to Know (AMB Extras)

September 02, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MB

Links Mentioned Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/8-aws-terms-project-managers-need-to-know/  Sponsors A Cloud Guru: https://acloudguru.com New Relic: https://newrelic.com Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? F...

Amazon EC2 Hibernation Bear is High Koala-ity

August 31, 2020 10:00 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MB

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, 2020.

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