Season 2 Episode 19 - Spot Instances, Snowball Edge & Bucket Negligence

In Episode 19 of Season 2, Karl & Jon welcome yet another guest onboard - fellow AWS Community Builder Ben Ellis. They discuss some best practices to optimize Amazon EC2 spot instances, building CIS hardened Golden Images and Pipelines, getting data to the cloud faster, leaky buckets, and reasons to love the cloud.

Here are links to the topics discussed:

• 02:44 Best practices to optimize your Amazon EC2 Spot Instances usage via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
• 09:01 Building CIS hardened Golden Images and Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder via Yogesh Aggarwal and Jason Livingston on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Operations and Migrations blog
• 13:14 Getting Data to the Cloud Faster with AWS Snowball Edge Devices via Brian Beeler on StorageReview.com
• 20:44 Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket via Paul Kunert on The Register
• 27:09 Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in via Simon Sharwood on The Register

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