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…
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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…
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…
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…
Welcome!
Welcome to the Cloudy Advice, my personal blog for sharing technical tidbits and learnings from my work in managing and deploying public cloud infrastructure. I have over 25 years working in IT Infrastructure, starting as a Network Administrator long ago and over the years have managed servers, storage, messaging platforms, backup systems…the whole gamut of…