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# Cloudy Advice

knowledge shared from working in the cloud

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## Posts

- [Hammerspace at Cloud Field Day 25: Solving AI Data Gravity Challenges](https://cloudyadvice.com/2026/04/29/hammerspace-at-cloud-field-day-25-solving-ai-data-gravity-challenges/) - Hammerspace at Cloud Field Day 25 showed how enterprises can move data closer to GPUs, reduce AI bottlenecks, and solve data gravity challenges.
- [CFD24: How Oxide is redefining hardware for private cloud](https://cloudyadvice.com/2025/10/28/cfd24-how-oxide-is-redefining-hardware-for-private-cloud/) - See how Oxide is pioneering private cloud tech—delivering powerful, flexible, and owner-operated solutions that challenge traditional data center models.
- [FinOps in Action](https://cloudyadvice.com/2025/01/29/finops-in-action/) - 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
- [Has Generative AI ruined the re:Invent experience?](https://cloudyadvice.com/2024/10/03/has-generative-ai-ruined-the-reinvent-experience/) - Generative AI related sessions have taken over re:Invent, but is the current content topic distribution what is best for AWS Builders?
- [See you at AWS re:Invent 2023](https://cloudyadvice.com/2023/11/21/see-you-at-aws-reinvent-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](https://cloudyadvice.com/2023/11/06/use-iam-roles-anywhere-to-reduce-the-use-of-iam-keys/) - In this blog post I explain the benefits of using IAM Roles Anywhere for external access to AWS services, and walk you through the setup process.
- [Sessions not to miss at AWS re:Invent 2022](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/11/15/sessions-not-to-miss-at-aws-reinvent-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](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/10/31/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](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/09/27/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](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/07/02/chargeback-with-aws-cost-categories/) - In this article, I provide an overview of AWS Cost Categories and how you can use it to build a chargeback report for your AWS environment.
- [FinOpsX](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/06/17/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
- [Implementing CUDOS for an Enterprise - Part 2: Filtering Data using Row Level Security](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/05/18/implementing-cudos-row-level-security/) - Introduction In my first post on the CUDOS solution, I showed you how you can implement implement SSO access to CUDOS using AWS Single Sign-on service. Leveraging this capability you can enable users to sign in to QuickSight using their corporate credentials and avoid having to give them full access to the AWS console. Now
- [Migrating existing AWS Config deployment to a centralized model](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/04/26/migrating-existing-aws-config-deployment-to-a-centralized-model/) - In my last post, I showed you how to setup an automated, enterprise wide deployment of AWS Config. That post assumed you were starting from scratch with no existing setup of AWS Config in your AWS accounts. However, what if you have already enabled AWS Config in one or more of your AWS accounts, with
- [Implementing CUDOS Cost Intelligence Dashboards for an Enterprise](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/04/29/implementing-cudos-cost-intelligence-dashboards-for-an-enterprise/) - Part 1 - Deployment and SSO Integration At my day job I recently led a project to move away from CloudHealth for cost reporting and implement some new tools to replace the functionality of CloudHealth. CloudHealth is a great tool but my company no longer wanted to pay a percentage of our spend just to
- [Automated Enterprise Deployment of AWS Config](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/04/14/automated-enterprise-deployment-of-aws-config/) - AWS Config - powerful tool but a deployment headache Seasoned users of AWS will be familiar with the AWS Config service. Config is a powerful tool that lets you continuously monitor and record the configuration of AWS resources in your account. Using Config, you can easily see changes to configuration of a given AWS resource
- [Welcome!](https://cloudyadvice.com/2022/04/06/hello-world/) - 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

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- [About Me](https://cloudyadvice.com/about-me/) - Based in the Silicon Valley, I have over 25 years experience working in IT. My career started long ago as a systems analyst on VAX/VMS systems and I've gone on to hold a wide variety of roles in the Infrastructure space, starting as a Network Administrator and over the years have managed servers, storage, messaging,

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