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(Not) Real Scientific Proof that AMI has 3syllables

AWS has 26, (yes) I counted them, different products with exactly 3 letters in them (or derivatives of) - lets go through them one at a time. A-C-M AWS Certificate Manager - Is not pronounced ac-em …

  • 3syllables
  • Rant
  • Miscellaneous
  • AMI
6 min read

The AWS EC2 Windows Secret Sauce

Now that I have got your attention with a catchy title - let me share with some of my thoughts regarding how AWS shines and how much your experience as a customer matters. Deploying instances in the …

  • Analysis
  • Amazon
  • AWS
  • Cloud
8 min read

The Anatomy of an AWS Key Leak to a Public Code Repository

Many of us working with any cloud provider know that you should never ever commit access keys to a public github repo. Some really bad things can happen if you do. AWS (and I assume all the cloud …

  • Security
  • Developer
  • git
  • AWS
2 min read

My awesome-podcasts List

I have a decent commute every day back and forth to work and I have come to enjoy listening to a number of podcasts throughout the week. I will try and keep the list up to date - here As of today - …

  • Podcast
  • Miscellaneous
  • DevOps
  • Cloud
3 min read

AMI has #3Syllables. A.M.I. AWS

Just to make this clear (before someone get’s the wrong idea…) This 100% fun. Humor. Not religion. Not a mission. Just having some fun at the expense of AWS.. If you follow me on Twitter …

  • Crusade
  • 3syllables
  • AMI
  • AWS
7 min read

Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish

Back in July 2018, I started to write a blog post about the upcoming death of Docker as a company (and also perhaps as a technology) but I never got round to completing and publishing the post. It is …

  • docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Miscellaneous
  • Cloud
6 min read

Separate VPC's can do More Harm Than Good

I have come across this a number of times of the past couple of months. Environments that were born in the datacenter, have grown in the datacenter - in short people who are used to certain (shall we …

  • legacy
  • Network
  • Security
  • culture
2 min read

The Year 2018 in review

I don’t always do these kind of posts but 2018 was a substantial year for me that warrants a short summary. I released the AWS Powershell Container - gauging by the number of pulls - I guess …

  • 2018
  • reflection
  • Miscellaneous
  • Cloud
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I was not expecting this at re:Invent

There was a lot to absorb during the jam packed week in Las Vegas but there were a number of things that I was truly surprised about during the conference.. It was clear that AWS is going after the …

  • conference
  • Storage
  • Miscellaneous
  • S3