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Last Thursday Honeycomb was kind enough to hand me the closing keynote slot at O11yCon, a conference whose entire premise is that observability matters and the people in the room are the ones who would know. I used that slot to argue that the primary reader of your telemetry is no longer a human, and […] The post Reading Observability Tools? That’s a Robot’s Job appeared first on Last Week in AWS…
I’ve been saying “S3 is not a filesystem” for over a decade. I’ve said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large company employees who were too polite to tell me to shut up before they went back to their FUSE monstrosities. It was one of those reliable truths […] The post S3 Is Not a Filesystem (But Now There’s One In Front of It) appeared first on Last Week in…
2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) Amazon's Fastest-Shipping Product Is Now Blog Posts Correcting the Financial Times I've been watching AWS long enough to develop a feel for when a company's communications shift from "informing" to "coping." We crossed that line somewhere around February 20th, when Amazon published a blog […] The post 2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at…
Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions The post Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions appeared first on Last Week in AWS .
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do The post I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do appeared first on Last Week in AWS .
[Last Week in AWS] AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate The post AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate appeared first on Last Week in AWS .
After years of complaints, AWS Compute Optimizer can identify idle NAT Gateways. At $35/month each plus data processing fees, finding unused gateways just got dramatically easier. The post AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways appeared first on Last Week in AWS .
AWS has done its quarterly housecleaning / "Googling" of its services, and deprecated what appears at first glance to be a startlingly long list. However, going through them put my mind at ease, and I'm hoping this post can do the same for you. The post AWS Deprecates Two Dozen Services (Most of Which You’ve Never Heard Of) appeared first on Last Week in AWS .
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 The post AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong appeared first on 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…
