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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…
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.
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…
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…