It’s 11:30 p.m. where I’m from, so just perhaps that’s why I’m showered, in my hotel room, and ready to study for an AWS certification I’ll be taking in a couple of days. It’s 10:30 p.m. here in Las Vegas. Or maybe, while there’s a bunch of people set to do some sort of chicken wing eating contest a hotel or two over, I’m in my room and preparing to go to sleep, just before I quickly write out a new blog post, because I’m getting old. That’s probably it. There are a couple of things, I wanted to quickly mention.

One, it’s been a few years since I’ve been to one of these gigantic conferences. I’ve forgotten what it’s like, and honestly, I’m not even sure if those Microsoft TechEd conferences of the past, match up to the 45,000-person event this is set to be.

While I won’t be at the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2019, I’ve been to a couple and after returning to something this big, I have something to say. The smaller ones have something these don’t. Or at least, don’t seem to have at the moment. I get it; it’s early still; chicken wings or not, the thing hasn’t really begun. But anyway, for those on the fence about going to the PowerShell conference, if that’s even possible for you, do it! Well, unless you want to ruin the ones with a billion people.

Two, a PowerShell community member contacted me on Twitter today and we’re meeting up for lunch tomorrow. How great is that!? And after that, we’re off to a PowerShell session. You read that right. Just because I’m at an AWS conference doesn’t mean I haven’t found some PowerShell content to devour. It’s called “Hands-On: Automating AWS Infrastructure with PowerShell.” To me, there’s no question that AWS has long accepted PowerShell. There are 4,499 PowerShell cmdlets in their AWSPowerShell module, and PowerShell was recently added to Lambda. There’s some commitment there. Oh! And one time, they were highly responsive and even created the Remove-EC2Instance cmdlet on my suggestion: https://tommymaynard.com/more-aws-powershell-changes-due-to-twitter-and-me-2016.

Looking forward to tomorrow and that sweet combination of AWS, PowerShell, and PowerShell community member meetups. Now to bed, and maybe I’ll still study.