Amazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership Principle| Last Week in AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the promotion of Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, effective immediately. In this expanded role, Malphas will oversee the company’s strategic initiatives in byzantine pricing models, confusing product nomenclature, and Generative AI. The post Amazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership Principle appeared first on Last Week in AWS.| Last Week in AWS
Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief. The post Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities appeared first on Last Week in AWS.| Last Week in AWS
I don't think it's going too far to say that free TLS certificate offerings like Let's Encrypt and AWS Certificate Manager have taken encrypted connections mainstream. The post AWS Certificate Manager Has Announced Exportable TLS Certificates, and I’m Mostly Okay With It appeared first on Last Week in AWS.| Last Week in AWS
Or: Surprise! I Contain Multitudes and Also Your “Serverless” Functions The post A Day in the Life of Server #47B-2: An AWS Data Center Memoir appeared first on Last Week in AWS.| Last Week in AWS
Five years ago, I fairly confidently stated that Cloud Repatriation Isn’t a Thing, and I by and large stand by what I wrote. That said, it’s 2025, and the story has changed somewhat. The post Cloud Repatriation is Getting Complicated appeared first on Last Week in AWS.| Last Week in AWS
AWS has announced a round of service deprecations, and I couldn't be happier—but I do have some quibbles.| Last Week in AWS
Welcome, intrepid cloud explorer! You’ve decided to venture into the AWS jungle in 2025, where the services multiply faster than your monthly bill. Forget those quaint relics like S3, EC2, and RDS that everyone always gravitates towards—despite being the lion’s share of AWS revenue, they’re practically stone tablets now when it comes to interest and attention. Let’s talk about navigating the real AWS experience.| Last Week in AWS
At the same time as AWS Transform has hit General Availability, AWS updated its service terms with a new requirement.| Last Week in AWS
Here’s a thing I’ve always wanted to do: take Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter and translate it into human.| Last Week in AWS
Changing AWS Chatbot to Amazon Q Developer presumably serves internal AWS purposes that may or may not resemble empire-building, but it serves no customers.| Last Week in AWS
Here’s how AWS is doing at each of the three layers the business has identified for its approach to AI.| Last Week in AWS
Disaster recovery / business continuity / "backups" are always an interesting subject for very large scale cloud environments. Many of the old data-center strategies that grumpy old sysadmins (that's me!) relied upon don't hold water anymore.| Last Week in AWS