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Optimizing a multimillion-dollar cloud bill

In December 2019, A Cloud Guru acquired our largest competitor, Linux Academy — along with a $2.7 million USD annual AWS bill. Prior to the acquisition, cloud spend was a proportionally small expense for ACG. After all, we’re the people who identified as the world’s first serverless startup and liked to show off pictures of our empty production […]

MSP360 – Evolving Cloud Backup with AWS for Over a Decade

Back in 2009 I received an email from an AWS developer named Andy. He told me that he and his team of five engineers had built a product called CloudBerryExplorer for Amazon S3. I mentioned his product in my CloudFront Management Tool Roundup and in several subsequent blog posts. During re:Invent 2019, I learned that CloudBerry has […]

HOW USEFUL IS ANSIBLE IN A CLOUD-NATIVE KUBERNETES ENVIRONMENT?

A question I’ve been hearing a lot lately is “why are you still using Ansible in your Kubernetes projects?” Followed often by “what’s the point of writing your book Ansible for Kubernetes when Ansible isn’t really necessary once you start using Kubernetes?” I spent a little time thinking about these questions, and the motivation behind them, and […]

Amazon Is Challenging Microsoft’s $10 Billion Pentagon Contract, but a Much Bigger Battle Between the Tech Giants Is Just Getting Started

Yesterday, according to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon formally filed a challenge over the Pentagon awarding its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract to Microsoft. It would be easy to view that move through a political lens. In some ways, that’s fair since the company isn’t exactly a favorite of the current administration. Plus, many people […]