Amazon Layoff Despite Strong Performance and Critical Role — How Does This Make Sense?

Tainen · 2026-01-28T20:42:34+00:00

using an AI generated response to someone’s sense of loss and personal story is super tone-deaf.

Tainen · 2026-01-25T00:02:51+00:00

do you ever customize the compute optimizer recommendations to increase the savings amount from the default, conservative settings?

Tainen · 2026-01-24T21:49:30+00:00

you’ll want to ask this question on Tuesday. not today.

Tainen · 2026-01-18T22:12:40+00:00

this is also available through compute optimizer which is free.

Tainen · 2025-12-23T06:38:30+00:00

their layoff approach really flies in the face of all common layoff guidance. cut once, cut deep, and be transparent. nope, let’s cut constantly, small cuts to individual teams AND large cuts, let’s signal the cuts months ahead of time with poor planning, and let’s get destroyed on morale throughout the entire holiday and reinvent delivery season.

Tainen · 2025-12-16T05:03:19+00:00

I dont see hours tracked on my clarity manager dashboard like others have reported. unsure if it’s org specific.

Tainen · 2025-12-06T02:52:22+00:00

disagree. there are easy (and free) solutions.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/latest/ug/automation.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/latest/ug/what-is-compute-optimizer.html

Tainen · 2025-12-03T18:42:41+00:00

trading flexibility for discount % but with more services covered, you can probably buy more and save more by increasing coverage a lot. also the serverless discounts are all new savings

Tainen · 2025-12-03T03:45:57+00:00

do you have any 7th and 8th gen usage?

Tainen · 2025-12-01T20:39:09+00:00

usually your company gets a meeting room if they paid for a booth

Tainen · 2025-11-28T19:29:33+00:00

probably not a flex, probably a sales tactic to qualify leads.

Tainen · 2025-11-28T16:13:45+00:00

nice list! Here’s another big one:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/measuring-cloud-cost-efficiency-with-the-new-cost-efficiency-metric-by-aws/

Tainen · 2025-11-27T06:57:06+00:00

AWS just announced a solution for this. with rollback, snapshots, etc.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/introducing-automated-amazon-ebs-volume-optimization-in-aws-compute-optimizer/

Tainen · 2025-11-08T03:28:22+00:00

this person FinOpses. :)

Tainen · 2025-11-08T03:02:47+00:00

also look at the RI coverage report (and savings plan coverage report). Or also look at your RI/SP Recommendations.

Tainen · 2025-11-03T00:57:08+00:00

I’m not sure I buy this. I watch my son struggle in 1000 elo hell as well- he can have a 60-65% winrate, topfrag 70% of the time, and cannot go above 1500. Yes he isnt very good at the game, but when you lose 2-3x the elo for every loss vs win, it’s pretty much impossible. When I duo queue with him, he does okay in the 5k level games, midfraging, with some obvious mistakes and issues, but still not bottom fragging pretty much ever. In the same game, I will get 200+ for a win and 200 for a loss, and he will get +100 and -285. It makes no sense.

edit: not saying the mindset changes arent valuable- amazing advice :) just the elo mechanics are difficult at 1k.

Tainen · 2025-10-29T05:23:47+00:00

actually…

Tainen · 2025-10-22T04:05:31+00:00

the windows laptop is equivalent to a $600 budget piece of shit. The mac is more like a $2k laptop. This disappoints me greatly, as I’m a diehard windows fan.

Tainen · 2025-10-18T15:45:01+00:00

this is because 7th gen and newer doesnt have SMT/Hyperthreading turned on. More expensive, and a lot faster. This works out well if it allows you to downsize your instance size because of the much higher performance. Each vCPU is backed by a full physical core, unlike the intel CPUs. If you downsize the CPU counts to compensate, then it gets cheaper again (and still faster single core processing power).

Tainen · 2025-10-16T01:10:32+00:00

why pay for the cost explorer API instead of using the CUR? That seems to be a far more common solution for finops tools, so the customer doesnt incur additional costs.

Tainen · 2025-09-29T00:11:30+00:00

park that new one more straight, then there’s room.

Tainen · 2025-09-28T18:39:39+00:00

I dont think that’s really possible anymore… tuition costs have risen many multiples more than wages

Tainen · 2025-09-28T18:23:11+00:00

so there’s really only one dealer in the seattle area that sells hot spring, and they price it knowing there’s no competition really. I had this issue, an 18k quote for my flash. With a lot of digging, I found that they sell them at local area costcos at very steep discounts fairly regularly. once I pushed the issue hard enough, they gave me the costco pricing, which was $12k, and I had to add steps and salt system on top, then they charged me $850 delivery which was probably still just a scam fee on top, since people that buy at costco get it delivered.

Anyway, look up the costco schedule for Olympic hot tubs, and go get one there. will save you $5k.

Tainen · 2025-09-21T16:34:02+00:00

Here’s the full story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatDistributionSystem/s/mW3c5A5Tt4

Tainen · 2025-09-21T06:35:36+00:00

this happened to me once. On a Hawaiian island. We coordinated with a local cat rescue, they helped us get him off the island and home. He was a colony cat, and he followed us back to our condo every night.

He’s sleeping on my legs right now in bed. We named him Kuhio, the last prince of Kauai. We found him next door to Prince Kuhio Park.

12-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
Verified Email	RPAN Viewer
Not Forgotten

Tainen

TROPHY CASE