Aurora DSQL: A Technical Marvel with a Pricing Randomizer
In short: Amazon’s Aurora DSQL is a technical marvel, but its pricing is absolutely baffling. And I mean just that. They’re not gouging customers. It’s not unfair. How they arrived at their pricing makes sense given the product’s development constraints (presumably including things such as “thou shalt not lose us our corporate ass on this service, as we cannot make it up in volume”). It’s just monumentally confusing.
The Innovation–Optimization Continuum
There’s a continuum, with “Innovation” on one end and “Optimization” on the other. Where are you?
EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated
Something strange started happening at re:Invent last year: new EC2 instances started launching without Reserved Instance support.
AWS Tightens the Reins: New AWS SaaS Marketplace Rules Will Impact Your Commitments
Yesterday, AWS lobbed a bit of a water balloon into my inbox.…
AWS’s Valkey Play: When a Fork Becomes a Price Cut
In a move that’s equal parts predictable and surprising, AWS has decided to make their Valkey-based services significantly cheaper than their Redis counterparts.
AWS Begins Sunsetting RIs; Replaces Them With Something Much, Much Better
Don’t worry, Reserved Instances will still be around. You just don’t have to think about them anymore unless you want to.
AWS Cross-AZ Data Transfer Costs More Than AWS Says
When it comes to the exact cost cross-AZ data transfer, the AWS documentation is a bit ambiguous. So I ran a little experiment to figure out how much it costs to move data between availability zones in the same region.
You Need a Multi-Cloud Dashboard Because I Want To Sell You One
The only vendors selling multi-cloud dashboards are the ones who’d be out of business if you didn’t buy them.
What the hell is a vCPU-based on-demand service limit?
AWS is very eager to tell you something that they can’t quite articulate.
Understanding Data Transfer in AWS
How much does it cost to move a terabyte of data in AWS? Who the hell knows. We tried though, and created a diagram to illustrate it.
How ConvertKit Could Lower Its $64K Monthly AWS Bill
ConvertKit posted their AWS bill, so I’ve given it a full analysis just like I do for our clients. Here’s six easy ways to improve their AWS bill.