Chevre, this week’s parsha is Behukotai (בְּחֻקֹּתַי). This week we finish the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). We start off with another version of the “if you do what I say, things will be good, if not, not good”. We’ve talked about this before around AWS Best Practices and the AWS Well Architected Framework.

We also have a section on the value of things, the redemption of sanctified animals, buildings and fields. In my day job as a TAM, I often get involved in FinOps type discussions. And customers arae often looking at the value of a service vs rolling their own or self managing. I’m also learning similar concepts in my gemara learning (I’m up to Erchin). So number 1, I really like it when different areas of my learning coincide. It makes me feel like HaShem is paying attention and making things align for me. And that I should have a message in there somewhere. Gotta start digging.

But more importantly, this is number 2, while we don’t use the same methods for valuations today for holy things, insurance companies use valuations all the time. And as mentioned, companies need to estimate (guestimate) how expensive a given architectural choice will be vs doing it a different way. This is where the SA and TAM can come in and give years of experienced advice to customers. Sometimes, however, they just have to do some self-testing to determine costs, issues or usefulness.

I’m still plugging away on my side project to implement via CloudFormation some of the recommendations I have been giving for years at my re:Invent talks and on customer calls. https://github.com/dubrowin/AWS-Reasonable-Account-Defaults I look forward to making more progress on this project, so stay tuned. Lots more in the works.

I also have to mention that next week (Wed) is Yom Yerushalym. The day my wife agreed to marry me. It’s a festive day in Israel. Looking forward to happier times.

Shabbat Shalom