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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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Excited to announce that I’ll be attending FinOpsX in Austin next week where I’ll be giving a lightning talk on how to use #aws Cost Categories to build a chargeback report. Expect a companion blog post on this topic next week. Looks like an interesting mix of speakers at the event and I’m looking forward to learning…
The concept of building accessibility (AX) into a web application is something that is talked about more and more these days, but sadly often gets cut as a product gets closer to release. With CI/CD and DevOps becoming more prevalent, how can DevOps professionals ensure that accessibility is included in the process? This post will…
Recently (May 16th, 2022), AWS made a small announcement related to AWS Control Tower that will be huge for my AWS environment and probably for many others as well. Namely, that you can now use customer provided core accounts when implementing Control Tower. Background AWS Control Tower is a great solution if you are setting…
Introduction One constant topic that comes up whenever discussing cloud costs with my counterparts in Finance is the notion of forecasting. Finance people love to forecast and it’s a big part of their job. However, forecasting AWS spend is notoriously difficult for several reasons: The fact that cloud costs are consumption based and thus highly…