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Kenneth (Ken) Hui

@kenhuinv.bsky.social
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Enterprise IT Guy. Principal Field Solutions Architect @PureStorage. Adopted home: Las Vegas. Vegas Golden Knights and New York Yankees fan. Opinions and views are my own.

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 27/03/2025
"People skills sustain a career more than technical skills" Alex Chan, Flickr Foundation #monkigras
Woman speaker in front of a slide saying people skills sustain a career more than technical skills
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Las Vegas Locally @lasvegaslocally.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In a surprising turn of events, MGM Resorts is trying to attract Vegas locals to the Strip by offering a special deal at the Wicked Spoon buffet in Cosmopolitan. Just $38 per person every Wednesday from 8 am to 2 pm, for up to four guests, with valid Nevada ID.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
You know you work or worked at Amazon when you are helping your friends and families with solving something and you begin with “Let’s work backwards from the desired result.” At Least I don’t ask anyone to begin by writing a six-page narrative.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My instant reaction everytime I see a Tesla Cybertruck? What an eyesore!
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Excited and humbled to be a part of this brilliant team of Field Solutions Architects at Pure Storage.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
On my way to my first PureStorage SKO!
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
My first trip back to Seattle since I left AWS. And of course, it is cold and wet. Meanwhile, back home it is warm and sunny.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Does this mean we will all have to retake our anti-bribery training? 😏 www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...
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Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act became law in 1977. In 2024, the Department of Justice announced 24 cases related to the anti-bribery statute.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
At Sales/SE new hire training this week with my colleague, Amir, at Pure Storage HQ.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/01/2025
The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If I was the rest of the World, I would call Trump’s tariffs bluff. When prices jump here in the US and the next mid-term elections come up, Congress will be squealing.
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Las Vegas Locally @lasvegaslocally.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Las Vegas Metro police will not engage in mass deportation roundups, according to LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill. "Officers will not stop and question, detain, arrest, or place an immigration hold on any individuals on the grounds they are an undocumented immigrant."
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
My thoughts on why people should stop using the phrase, “The Cloud is just someone else’s computer.” www.linkedin.com/posts/kennet...
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Kenneth Hui on LinkedIn: Every so often, I still hear people say "The Cloud is just someone else's…
Every so often, I still hear people say "The Cloud is just someone else's computer." The statement may be catchy but it's meaningless and unhelpful. It's like…
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My thoughts on the recent performance-related “layoffs” - www.linkedin.com/posts/kennet...
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Kenneth Hui on LinkedIn: People may not want to hear this but not every layoff for performance…
People may not want to hear this but not every layoff for performance reasons is a ruse to silence dissenters or to cut expenses. I have been in those…
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It’s cold (relatively) and blustery in Nevada. Good time to wear my vendor merch. Looking forward to adding Pure storage merch to the mix.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
+100
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
have to say, Glean has risen to the top of my list for work productivity tools.
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Scott Piper @scottpiper.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I enjoy AWS's lack of standardization of region naming by using cities (Zurich), states (Ohio), parts of states (Northern Virginia), countries (Spain), and parts of countries (Central Mexico).
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Fair point!
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The Enterprise AI Show @theentaishow.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Career Advice in 2025 bit.ly/cloudcast-887 As we start in 2025, we wanted to offer advice on job searching and evaluating roles. The market and the interviewing process have shifted; what do you need to know in 2025 if you seek a new opportunity?
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Career Advice in 2025
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Observations from week 2 so far #PureStorage in the new gig: 1) The onboarding process feels more “human” and “personal” than at Amazon. 2) It’s a joy to not have to use Outlook/WorkDocs/Quip/Chime
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I am excited to share that I have joined #PureStorage as a Principal Field Solutions Architect (FSA), helping customers with managing their unstructured data… www.linkedin.com/posts/kennet...
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Kenneth Hui on LinkedIn: #cloud #purestorage #uffo
I am excited to share that I have joined Pure Storage as a Principal Field Solutions Architect (FSA), helping customers with managing their unstructured data…
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
My sister should have turned 60 today.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Ready to travel in 2025
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
So close. Probably happens in Q1 2025.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
My youngest sister takes Christmas decorations seriously.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Currently stalking my future work colleagues on LinkedIn.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I am just in Burbank where it was in the 80s. Here in Nevada, we will be in the 60s. I am leaving for New York where it will be in the 20s. Now I’m remember one of the reasons I left New York. 🥶
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Brian Gracely @bgracely.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The Cloudcast - 2024 Year-End Mailbag bit.ly/cloudcast-882 It’s that time of the year… Aaron Delp and @bgracely.bsky.social answer emails and questions for the second half of the year. Broadcom, NVIDIA, WFH, RTO, US Policies, new AI focus areas, Cloud skills and much, much more.
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2024 Year End Mailbag
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I went into #reInvent knowing it may be my last time speaking there as an #AWS employee. So, I wanted to go out with a bang. I was gratified to hear from my former manger today & learn that my 2 chalk talks scored the highest and 3rd highest customer ratings, respectively, of any storage sessions.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Between jobs, I am hanging out with Erin for some daddy/daughter time.
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Keith Townsend @CTOAdvisor @handle.invalid · 16/12/2024
It's review/objective time. Align how you report on what you do to those objectives. You manage DNS for your organization, and "Reaching ESG goals" is one of your organization's top-down objectives? Fgure out how your work aligns with that goal. You can't find a way? Find a a new role.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I am an avid reader of business and technology history. So, besides prepping for the new job, I will also be catching on some books in my Kindle library, with more expected for Christmas
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
For 2.5 more weeks, every day is going to feel like a Saturday. First day at new job will be Monday, 12/30, ensuring no gaps in medical coverage. Plan to watch a whole lot of @techfieldday.com videos the next couple of weeks to prep.
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Aidan Steele @awsteele.com · 13/12/2024
Back in 2022 I started a project I called vpcshark. Since then, AWS has launched three generations of EC2 instances without traffic mirroring support. So I figured I might as well open source it, might be useful to someone. github.com/aidansteele/...
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GitHub - aidansteele/vpcshark: An open source Wireshark extcap to make ad hoc mirroring of AWS EC2 traffic easier
An open source Wireshark extcap to make ad hoc mirroring of AWS EC2 traffic easier - aidansteele/vpcshark
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Ant Stanley @iamstan.dev · 12/12/2024
Ken Cheng is the only person doing LinkedIn correctly
A LinkedIn post from Ken Cheng with the following text

I owed a friend £22.91 for an Uber.

I transferred them £22.19 by accident.

They never brought it up.

Nobody would bring up 72p.

I did it on purpose. 

I've been doing it for years.

Every time I have to transfer someone money, I "accidentally" leave off a bit.

I call it the Plausible Deniability Typo.

£24.37 instead of £24.73.
£9.38 instead of £9.83.
£3.46 instead of £3.64.

Sometimes if I'm feeling really risky, I'll do £18.54 instead of £19.54.

They'd look like a complete tool to quibble over this.

Instead, they are a tool in a different way.

A tool for me to get to the top.

I've probably made £100 over 5 years.
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Scott Piper @scottpiper.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
My summary of the top announcements from re:Invent for security teams. www.wiz.io/blog/top-aws...
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Top AWS re:Invent Announcements for Security Teams 2024 | Wiz Blog
Our favorite AWS re:Invent announcements tailored for security teams, including Resource Control Policies, Declarative Policies, and VPC Block Public Access.
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 11/12/2024
Whoa. AWS appears to have started the process of deprecating EC2 reserved instances in favor of savings plans. Pricing page removes them, new instance types can’t get them, documentation warns you away from them (and over to SPs).
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I was asked by HR to complete any work in flight, after I resigned. The email request came a few hours after I was locked out of the company system, including my work laptop. 🤔
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It turns out today is my last day at #AWS. I resigned and Amazon decide to immediately “walk” me out. My thanks to former colleagues at www.linkedin.com/posts/kennet...
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Kenneth Hui on LinkedIn: #aws | 12 comments
After 4 Years and 11 months at #AWS, it is time to say goodbye and move on to the next chapter in my career. More to come on that in 2025. I am grateful for… | 12 comments on LinkedIn
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Can’t wait for this to happen. If you know, you know. www.reviewjournal.com/business/las...
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H Mart Las Vegas is hiring | Business
With plans to open in 2024, a highly anticipated Asian grocer is currently hiring for all positions.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Today begins the tech version of “Cowboys and Aliens.” It’s the last full day of #reInvent, with us techies still in town, and the 1st day of the National Rodeo Finals. It officially starts with the MGM Grand playing country music in the casino & you see the cowboy hats in mass.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Tip for next #aws #reInvent - if you would prefer staying at a smoke-free hotel that is on or very close to the Strip, consider the Vdara, the Westin, or the Marriott’s Grand Chateau.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is my favorite #AWS #reInvent 2024 booth, from a visual standpoint. Take a little bit of time to zoom in and read the video boxes.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
May just be me but kudos to WIZ for their marketing.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Breaking news: Vendor selling AI solution claims AI will disrupt everything. Cites analyst report paid for by said vendor
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Almost time for another busy #AWS #reInvent. As of Saturday, I am scheduled for 10 customer briefings, 1 breakout session, and 3 chalk talks. You are invited to attend one of my sessions if you want to learn more about data protection and #awsbackup. Jut search by my name in the catalog.
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Kenneth (Ken) Hui @kenhuinv.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Lock-in is a funny thing. For years customers resisted using the public cloud because they wanted to avoid lock-in. Meanwhile, those same customers went all in on VMware. Look who is locked in now and which vendor is leveraging lock-in to raise prices.
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Matthew Broberg @mbbroberg.fun · 22/11/2024
This one’s for all the #product people out there. h/t to the insta meme account
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