Introducing Amazon QuickSlap

- Hello and welcome to Last Week in AWS. I'm back in civilization. No thanks to anything to do with the state of Maine. Now let's see what AWS has for us last week and there were so many things. Today's episode is brought to you by Rubrik, who apparently thinks your cloud data deserves better than crossing your fingers and hoping ransomware doesn't find you. They protect your data across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and even Oracle Cloud because someone has to. See, while you're busy explaining the leadership why that S3 bucket was accidentally public for six months, Rubrik is making sure you can actually recover when things inevitably goes sideways. Cloud breaches average $5.17 million last year. So that's a lot of explaining. Check out rubrik.com/sitc before circumstances require you to. Reduce Docker image build time on AWS code build using Amazon ECR as a remote cache. That's right. AWS just discovered that caching docker layers speeds up builds, a revelation that's only been standard practice since 2015. Unlock real-time advertising insights with Amazon marketing stream in AWS. AWS admits what we all knew. They want your advertising data flowing through their pipes so you can pay Amazon to analyze how much you're paying Amazon to advertise on Amazon. It's vertical integration dressed up as insights and the only guaranteed winner is AWS's revenue stream. Now, I do trust they won't peak at customer data, but I don't trust that they won't make everything worse as the inshidification continues. AWS introduces self-service invoice correction feature. Finally admitting their billing is so Byzantine that even they can't get it right the first time. This feature is just AWS outsourcing invoice QA as customers have already spent hours deciphering the line items. At least you can fix their mistakes yourself now instead of waiting three billing cycles for support to respond. We'll ignore the part where you misspelled my name, but sure, the bill is probably correct, is the reaction of probably zero customers. Part six, effective sunset of the legacy data platform in BBVA, the migration methodology. AWS publishes a six-part epic about BBVA's data platform migration like it's the Lord of the Rings of cloud migration. Spoiler, they move stuff to AWS and turned off old systems. You're gonna have to go read a bunch of separate background lore to figure out how much consulting revenue got generated writing this novel when lift and shift then optimized would have fit in the blue sky skeet. AWS Identity Center now supports customer managed KMS keys for encryption at rest. That's right, they let you bring your own encryption keys to IAM Identity Center, which is great for compliance checkboxes, but terrible for your KMS bill. Every API call now costs you money and given how chatty identity systems are, congratulations on your new line item that'll mysteriously grow 30% quarter over quarter. This episode is brought to you by Ona, formerly Gitpod. Are you tired of agents that push your S3 bucket to the wrong AWS account or commit tax documents it mistook for JavaScript? Introducing Ona, where coding agents run in parallel in isolated sandboxes in your VPC with private Amazon bedrock model support that your corporate overlords might actually approve of. Launch agent fleets with workflows of bulk open pull requests to finally tackle that Java migration you started in 2019. Head to Onaona.com and get $200 of free credits using the code last week in AWS. Beyond Bootstrap. Bootstrap list CDK deployments at GoDaddy. GoDaddy discovered they could skip CDK's Bootstrap stack and save on S3 costs across thousands of accounts. Turns out the required infrastructure AWS insists you need isn't actually required it's just convenient for AWS to bill you for storing deployment artifacts you'll never look at again with no life cycle policy. Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.34. That's right, they conveniently drop support right as extended support pricing kicks in for older versions because nothing says customer choice like a financial cattle prod. Upgrade now or watch your bill balloon will they generously keep your ancient clusters on life support then surprise upgrade you in a year that is similarly expensive behind the curve versions. I'm giving two talks at re-invent this year both are ridiculous you should attend them. And somehow they came up with a new thing called Amazon quick suite which I misheard is Amazon quick slap and we'll never again on here while sunsetting Amazon Q business. Yeah, great this will work out well. That's depressing I give up and that's what happened last week in AWS. I'm cloud economist, Corey Quinn, stick around. (upbeat music)