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Introduction Last month, I had the honor to be invited as a Delegate for Cloud Field Day 25 in Santa Clara. One of the more interesting sessions came from Hammerspace, where the discussion centered around a problem a lot of enterprises encountering as AI adoption grows: Your GPUs are only as useful as your ability... The post Hammerspace at Cloud Field Day 25: Solving AI Data Gravity Challenges…
Private Cloud is the New Hotness Last week I participated as a delegate at Cloud Field Day 24. If I had to pick a common thread that wove through the sessions, it would be enabling private cloud. The presentation from Oxide took that to the extreme, as they outlined their vision of a cloud computer... The post CFD24: How Oxide is redefining hardware for private cloud first appeared on Cloudy…
I recently joined my friend Alon Arvatz on his podcast for a wide ranging conversation on putting FinOps in Action. During the conversation I shared my views on how to be successful with FinOps, how to get engineers aligned with your FinOps goals, and the importance of good communication skills for all technical professionals. Check... The post FinOps in Action first appeared on Cloudy Advice .
Introduction I ve been attending re:Invent every year since 2015, and while the conference has its share of issues, I ve always returned because I ve felt the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. It seems as if Generative AI related sessions have taken over re:Invent, to the detriment of other topics. AWS re:Invent a learning conference AWS... The post Has Generative AI ruined the re:Invent…
It s that time of year again, the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the AWS re:Invent conference. This will be my seventh re:Invent! This conference has its share of problems huge crowds, terrible session reservation process, incredibly spread out campus. So why do I keep going back to this conference year after year? The Learning, the... The post See you at AWS re:Invent 2023 first appeared on…
In this article I detail the problems and risk associated with static keys, how IAM Roles Anywhere can solve this problem, and walk through how to setup the complete solution. The post Use IAM Roles Anywhere to reduce the use of IAM keys first appeared on Cloudy Advice .
AWS reInvent 2022 is fast approaching (only two weeks away!) and I m excited to share that I will be co-presenting with Aaron Edell and Rohit Pujari on Quicksight and the Cloud Intelligence Dashboards. Come see us on Thursday afternoon in BSI304: Optimize your AWS cost and usage with Cloud Intelligence Dashboards. I ll be sharing the customer perspective of how... The post Sessions not to miss at…
In a very small blog post released on Oct 25th, the AWS Organizations team released a key new feature: the ability to update the primary contact information for your member accounts. This is a huge improvement and takes away one more thing that you previously could only do logged in as root. Login in to... The post AWS Organizations can now update primary contact info for accounts first appeared…
Cloud Inventory is a Challenge Anyone who has worked with AWS for a while will be quite familiar with the difficulties of getting a complete picture of the inventory of resources in your accounts. While AWS has made some limited strides in this area with tools like the EC2 Global View and the ability to... The post Easily Query Your Cloud Inventory with Steampipe first appeared on Cloudy Advice .
Introduction At my day job, we first started using public cloud back in 2015, and at the time we were really just starting to crawl with cloud financials. Our finance department was not a fan of chargeback and as a result we ended up partnering with a third party reseller to help us with... The post Build Easy Chargeback Reports using AWS Cost Categories first appeared on Cloudy Advice .