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Open Up The Cloud: Hangout — Actually, before we get to the Re:Invent links, let me tell you first about the Open Up The Cloud hangout, a casual Twitter space for you to bring your cloud resume or project [1], to be “reviewed” and discussed. We have some amazing folks coming: Linda Vivah (100% go follow Linda on Instagram) Brian Hough, the most friendly, energetic guy in tech and cloud. Andrew Brown—who has some of the most watched cloud certification videos on YouTube. The super hard-working and kind folks behind learntocloud.guide: Rishab, Antonio and Gwyneth, and maybe a special guest or two! It looks set to be a blast, join us! [1] If you share a resume or project to be reviewed, I’ll send you a copy of either Cloud Resume Challenge book, or The Tech Resume: Inside Out.
Top announcements of AWS Re:Invent 2021, Re:Invent One Pager and this A Cloud Guru Article — All nice summaries of the main Re:Invent announcements. If you’re short of time, scan the one-pager document, and you’ll be (mostly) all caught up! … Kinda.
Control Tower Account Factory For Terraform — Setting up an AWS organisation isn’t easy, and when you try doing that with Terraform, it’s not any easier! You need to decide on things like patterns for your backend / state management (e.g. how many backend locations you want, and which AWS accounts those backends will live), and you’ll need to hand-roll a load of tooling to get things to work. This new module is kinda AWS out-of-the-box in a Terraform module. However… the code module behind the announcement only has only two contributors 👀. That said, it is nice to see AWS supporting Terraform more heavily. Earlier this year, AWS announced they would invest in officially supported Terraform modules [1][2], which now live under a new GitHub organisation called “AWS Integration & Automation” [1]. The terraform modules announcement did come with some criticisms, though about the lack of engagement with existing open source folks before announcing the project [1].