One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old| Last Week in AWS
How much does it cost to move a terabyte of data in AWS? Who the hell knows. We tried though, and created a diagram to illustrate it.| Last Week in AWS
Amazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership Principle| Last Week in AWS
Keeping up with AWS announcements is like drinking from a firehose. The Last Week in AWS blog filters it all to find the gems worth reading.| 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
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
Posts about AWS news come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it to find the hidden gems and stuff worth reading.| 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
The AWS Free Tier makes it too easy to rack up massive surprise bills. If AWS doesn't fix free tier, the company is certain to face tragic consequences.| Last Week in AWS
I've given so much grief to the AWS Managed NAT Gateway over the last few years that if I were to pass all of that grief through one of the gateways| Last Week in AWS
The fourth stage managing cloud infrastructure is "clicking around in the web console, then lying about it." I call it "ClickOps."| Last Week in AWS
Good Morning! Happy Tuesday! I'm keynoting NANOG in Kansas City in a couple of weeks should you be around and want to hear me opine on networking, in| Last Week in AWS
Corey suggests that S3's native features aren't a substitute for a thoughtful backup strategy.| Last Week in AWS
There's a universal lie that technical people believe across the board. It goes something like this: "After this next sprint ends, then we're going to pay off all of our technical debt and start doing everything the right way."| 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
In a move that's equal parts predictable and surprising, AWS has decided to make their Valkey-based services significantly cheaper than their Redis counterparts.| Last Week in AWS
I was in New York this week for the AWS Summit, and while it's always great to catch up with readers (thanks to those of you who came out to the| Last Week in AWS
There have been some noises about this week's newsletter issue in which I criticized the release of AWS Compute Optimizer offering RDS recommendations...Let me clarify my position and commentary on this feature announcement.| Last Week in AWS
This morning's announcement that Adam Selipsky would be stepping down as AWS CEO, with longtime Amazonian Matt Garman stepping into the role, feels like a natural correction. Garman has long been seen as the heir apparent to AWS's leadership. When Selipsky was named CEO in the last succession, my initial reaction was a baffled, "I'm sorry, who?"| Last Week in AWS
Let's begin with the tl;dr: At this year's re:Invent, I'm hosting a photo scavenger hunt with significant prizes for "most items found" and "most creative entry." Sign up through my webapp at findme.lastweekinaws.com. The rest of this post details how I built this app.| Last Week in AWS
AWS may be using your data to train its AI models, and you may have unwittingly consented to it. Prepare to jump through a series of complex hoops to stop it.| Last Week in AWS
One of the often-debated questions in AWS is whether AWS account IDs are sensitive information or not and the question has been oddly-difficult to answer| Last Week in AWS
AWS has been very publicly insecure about the perception that it's lagging behind in the Generative AI space for the past year. Unfortunately, rather than| Last Week in AWS
Multi-cloud (that is, running the same workload across multiple cloud providers in a completely agnostic way) is absolutely something you need to be| Last Week in AWS
