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Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Catchpoint. Look, 80 percent of performance and availability issues don’t occur within your application code in your data center itself. It occurs well outside those boundaries, so it’s difficult to understand what’s actually happening. What Catchpoint does is makes it easier for enterprises to detect, identify, and of course, validate how reachable their application is, and of course, how happy their users are. It helps you get visibility into reachability, availability, performance, reliability, and of course, absorbency, because we’ll throw that one in, too. And it’s used by a bunch of interesting companies you may have heard of, like, you know, Google, Verizon, Oracle—but don’t hold that against them—and many more. To learn more, visit www.catchpoint.com, and tell them Corey sent you; wait for the wince.

Pete: Hello, and welcome to AWS Morning Brief. I’m Pete Cheslock. I'm still here; Corey is still not. I'm sorry. But don't worry, I'm here again with Jesse DeRose. Welcome back yet again, Jesse.

Jesse: Thank you for having me back. I have to say for all our listeners, I'm sorry I have not watched the entire Step Up trilogy and all the other breakdancing movies we talked about last time. It is still on my todo list. But fear not, it will happen. We will talk about this again.

Pete: Well, that actually brings a really good point, which is we need to make a correction from our last podcast. We talked about how Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo was the sequel for Breakin’, and I had incorrectly thought that Breakin’—the first one—also had ‘Electric Boogaloo’ in the name. It turns out I lack the ability to read an article on Wikipedia. There was a very carefully placed period in that sentence which, as our listeners probably know, delineates one sentence from another. So, no: Breakin' one, it was just called Breakin’. It was not Breakin’: Electric Boogaloo. I’m—just have no ability to read anything on Wikipedia, apparently.

Jesse: I still feel like this is a missed opportunity for the first one in the franchise to be Breakin’: Electric Boogalone.

Pete: [laughs]. Almost as bad as Electric Boogalee, but—

Jesse: It's up there.

Pete: —that's for another podcast. Anyway, we are talking today, not about breakdancing movies from the 1980s, we are actually talking about a little bit of a different change in our normal conversation, not necessarily around Amazon-specific technologies, but around fostering change within an organization, and some of the worst ways that we have seen change kind of implemented into an organization. Fostering change, it's important in any organization in general—and maybe we're a little biased; we spend so much of our time dealing with cost savings and cost optimization, but it really is so much more important when you deal with over-reaching cost optimization and, kind of, management strategy within a company.

Jesse: Yeah, I feel like there's this massive disconnect between a lot of companies, where leadership has this really, really heavy incentive—or really, really heavy goal to better understand and manage cloud costs, and the individual contributors or the underlying engineering teams just don't have the same focus. And that's not to say that they don't care about costs, so much as maybe they have other roadmap items that they're working on or other tasks that have been prioritized before cost optimization projects. So, there really seems to be this disconnect