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…
Author: Mike Graff
I'm an IT Professional with over 25 years experience in the industry with a focus is on Designing, Implementing and Operating highly available IT Infrastructure that meets the business need. I have broad experience across the entire spectrum of IT infrastructure services: storage, compute, network and security.
Since 2016 I have been primarily focused on working with public cloud infrastructure and supporting business teams on their cloud related projects.
Has Generative AI ruined the re:Invent experience?
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…
See you at AWS re:Invent 2023
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…
Use IAM Roles Anywhere to reduce the use of IAM keys
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.
Sessions not to miss at AWS re:Invent 2022
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…
AWS Organizations can now update primary contact info for accounts
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…
Easily Query Your Cloud Inventory with Steampipe
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…
Build Easy Chargeback Reports using AWS Cost Categories
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…
FinOpsX
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…
Tools to help with Accessibility and DevOps
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…