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freeasinbeer posted:I think our EDP requires us to spend $24 million this year; so I expect we’ll find something to blow it on; last year it was $2 million on Rekognition, which didn’t really do anything besides piss money. 🤷♀️ Two places often overlooked when trying to burn through EDP cash: training and ProServe. AWS will happily put together custom training plans for your org- not just “here’s how to do AWS” but more like “here is how YOUR org does AWS (complete with AWS best practices meshed with your best practices and the reasons why you do things the way you do)”. I’ve set that up for customers in the past and it’s always a huge hit and a morale boost for your devs and engineers and architects. And ProServe credits are great for getting rid of those head-knockers that you want to be rid of but do t have the time.
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Arzakon posted:Third, Marketplace The F5 appliance is super rad, and you’ll watch your spend ratchet up by the second! Tell it to dump logs into an RDS Oracle instance for big money-sink fun!
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fluppet posted:Best one I saw was <developer name>.<company name> hosting production assets. Every couple of months there someone would come along and ask about deleting that bucket. No no no. Keith is the name of the bucket. Keith named it after himself, but “Keith has a million objects, Keith is leaking PII, AWS got after us for bad API calls to Keith”. Keith the developer is long gone but Keith the bucket is alive and well. Keith is an rear end in a top hat.
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Arzakon posted:Does signing up for an AWS account still result in an Amazon.com account being created so you can have your corporate infrastructure spend next to your personal 100 gallon barrel of lube and dragon shaped dildo purchases? No. amazon.com accounts have been decoupled from AWS accounts for a while now.
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necrobobsledder posted:There is probably a museum gallery of horrible infrastructure patterns in the cloud now that makes the random server that was accidentally enclosed behind drywall and found out by having the cable traced when it finally went down one day seem like a nothingburger. If not, I'm going to goddamn start collecting them to make everyone's eyes bleed. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships, etc.
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Arzakon posted:I just hit 8 years, 6 as an SA/SA Manager. Life is great, I enjoy it, some people don't. Biggest thing for me was getting on a team with a good manager/director. Some people on the forums have worked here and hated it for very valid reasons. All the typical endemic industry problems with techbro culture exist here and there is zero top down direction to stamp it out. Definitely going through some "becoming a real business" growing pains where you might have to "justify business value" to throw money away on a big idea but if you want to join and help some customers solve some problems and have unlimited free AWS usage that is the SA gig. Look at this scrub with only eight years. But yeah everything here is spot on, though. It was tough to take a $40,000 pay cut when the stock price dropped precipitously, but there are "talks" about throwing additional stock at the problem to boost people's salaries back up. Of course that'll take years to implement and will affect no one we know...
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kalel posted:would you say the experience has been sa-sa Boo this man
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Blurb3947 posted:How'd you guys get your start at AWS? I'm almost a year at my current org doing some light cloud and software support, but want to do more AWS. Have the Cloud Practitioner and want to get the SAA ones and probably SysOps. I showed up with literally zero cloud experience of any kind. But I did have a fifteen year history of building virtual patterns in data centers so I was able to parley my architecture knowledge into AWS services during the interviews. That said, it’s more about demonstrating the ability to think creatively on the fly and to demonstrate a comfortability and familiarity with complex deployments involving coordination with multiple teams.
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This is interesting. I have not seen any issues with Slack since it was deployed and thank goodness for that. Chime sucks. My experience with the Slack rollout was, “here, you are using Slack now.” “Okay.” What was the disaster to which you are referring?
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Hughmoris posted:I really wish he'd put one together for Certified Database and/or Certified Data Analytics because there seems to be a huge gap of courses/training for those. The practice exams on ACloudGuru are great for the Database Specialty exam. Without any prep I took four practice exams and dug deep into questions I got wrong. After the fourth I took the live exam and passed. YMMV
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Docjowles posted:Yes, please in the name of all that is good, do not write an app that opens direct, synchronous connections from a phone to a database. DB's are not designed for high latency, slow, unreliable links or huge numbers of simultaneous connections. It's also an unnecessary security risk putting it directly on the internet. You want a a backend application that your mobile app talks to over HTTPS, which in turn queries the DB and returns the results. Speaking very broadly you want to write a lightweight frontend that sends requests and renders/reacts to the results, and put as much business logic (I'll include "dealing with behind the scenes infrastructure bullshit like databases" here) as possible on the remote backend. This also gives you more freedom to change stuff about your app without waiting and praying for users to update it on their devices. Yes, my name is Bobby Tables. Why do you ask?
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Got a weird one today I've never seen. You are probably seeing the AWS service account. Some services run stuff in service accounts managed by AWS and you have to do some digging through logs to find your account that actually spun up the resources. E: well hello there. It’s a completely new page that I needed to read to catch up on the thread. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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This is correct. Support won’t help you determine whether a cert is in use or not.
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Hughmoris posted:I'm trying to figure out what I want to pivot to when I leave my current role. I like big data. From the outside looking in, Redshift seems like a cool piece of tech. I know it catches a lot of flak from Reddit and Hackernews but I don't have enough experience with it to argue one way or another. Don’t specialize in a specific service or platform. AWS focuses more on categories of services, like “compute”, “serverless”, “SQL-based”, “NoSQL-based”, “networking.” So if you are looking to pivot, sit for one of the “____ specialist” certs (security, database, networking, storage, etc) start mucking around with the technology (save money by spinning up a VM for SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc) and learn how they work and how they differ, what their strengths and weaknesses are and be able to talk to a grade schooler about what a database is. Then interview at AWS and become a SME and kill it.
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Hughmoris posted:Speaking of AWS... how's the vibes over there these days? Still a big freeze on new hires or is that all in the past? Honestly? It’s a loving trainwreck in my part of the biz. Managers and skip levels are too busy looking customer obsessed to be customer obsessed. People are head-down trying to avoid being noticed lest they get swept up in silent firings so managers can make their force reduction quotas. People have been promoted to their level of incompetence and, where I once was driven to bring my A game so all the smart people wouldn’t find out how dumb I was, now I just shake my head at the rank stupidity that is allowed to run rampant. And yet leadership still clings to this tired notion of “Day One Culture”. We are a twenty year old company with a hundred thousand employees, there is so much internal process that IBM would blush, and the hiring bar has fallen so low that people misspell AWS (I poo poo you not). When I am left alone to do my job and actually help our customers I really love my job. But I spend all of my time on “giving back to the business” so my skip level can look good while he throws us under the bus so he can look even better. But the base salary is good, the stock is back on track to do interesting things, work-life balance is amazing, the benefits are solid and maybe I can do this for a few more years until retirement.
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I do t k why I hate AI so much but I do. Maybe that it’s been adopted by so many as the perfect cure-all for everything from procedure manuals to customer emails to doing our thinking for us. Maybe people who have no actual idea of its capabilities use it like a general purpose “we’ll throw AI at it to fix it!” rallying cry. Maybe because people use “AI” like they used “paradigm” in the 90s, “devops” in the 00s or “agile” in the teens. But I hate it and it sucks.
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