Corey Quinn

I write LastWeekinAWS.com, and I fix horrifying AWS bills.

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2024-10-30 16:33:33

GitHub offering free hosted Arm runners. This removes the last of the x86 in any of my workflows.

2024-09-16 16:33:05

At Accenture, we know a lot about AI and absolutely nothing about how to talk to human beings without being profoundly creepy.
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2024-09-09 17:53:47

At 20 feet tall, the iPhone 16 is the largest iPhone to date.
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2024-07-22 02:39:09

I’m burned out; turns out I haven’t taken a vacation in ~a decade.
Back in September; be good to each other—and yourselves.

2024-07-15 01:19:10

Here you go, @npub1kra…eq5v; I made another dumbass competitive slide for you about another metric that no customer gives a shit about.
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2024-07-10 21:39:10

Ugh. @brooke_jamieson has given me the exact opposite of a friendship bracelet.
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2024-06-29 22:29:18

Ordered from this Irish restaurant called "McDonald's" and it's pretty apparent that their cuisine is still suffering from the potato famine.
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2024-06-29 02:39:01

It's extremely important that logs never be written to a plaintext file--instead, they should go to a special format that requires a custom binary to read because the systemd author hates everything about Unix.

2024-06-27 02:30:50

"No standing, talking, drinking water, using your phone, taking notes, or using the toilet" says the AWS online certification requirements, as Amazon once again mistakes test-takers for their own employees.
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2024-06-26 16:00:47

Was reminded today that Bonzi Buddy was derided as spyware two decades ago for doing considerably less than the telemetry in virtually every modern application.

2024-06-22 16:30:47

Pop quiz: what do Henry Kissinger, Whoopi Goldberg, and Pope Francis all have in common?

2024-06-20 22:30:46

Just now:
@mike_julian: “I’m staying in the Gaslamp district.”
Me: “It’s the Gaslight district.”
Mike: “…pretty sure it’s Gaslamp?”
Me: “You’re wrong. It’s Gaslight.”

2024-06-19 16:56:49

"Margaritaville" is a far darker song when you think of it not in the context of "tropical setting" but instead "Jimmy Buffet's restaurant location in Cleveland."

2024-06-16 16:06:51

Great Father’s Day present.
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2024-06-12 23:06:47

The thing that galls me about Microsoft Recall is that it tracks everything you do on your computer, but Microsoft themselves have demonstrated in vulnerability disclosures that they clearly don’t even log what the hell is happening in the Azure control plane.

2024-06-12 02:46:48

On a scale of 1 to Oceangate, how small can your compression algorithm make something?

2024-06-11 13:06:51

Searching for “OpenAI” in the App Store and the top result is an ad for some scam company instead? That’s not gonna win customer trust, Apple.
And you’re gonna need that.
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2024-06-10 18:36:51

Custom emoji are really where it's at.
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2024-06-10 02:36:50

You okay, @SlackHQ? Your “you can’t unsubscribe” monthly update email didn’t mention your bullshit AI offerings even once. Needs more upsells!
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2024-06-09 19:16:47

If you have a captive portal wifi system that requires no login, just a "click here to continue" time waster, you should be sent to an island where the only music available is yodeling remixes.
United Club, I'm looking at you here.

2024-06-06 04:56:47

When a company says they don’t take American Express for online transactions, I smell something sketchy afoot.
eBay’s email today saying they don’t take Amex anymore means I really need to close my account over there.

2024-06-04 18:06:54

I hate that this is next-level evergreen tweet territory.
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2024-06-04 17:16:52

I'll trust Microsoft's AI with anything even slightly nuanced just as soon as Excel stops telling me the glass is January 2nd full.

2024-06-04 04:06:50

Amazon just chose violence on my spicy mustard order.
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2024-06-03 16:56:49

It really says something that you're pushing all work to be done in @SlackHQ, but the opt out is to manually write an email instead of a setting for the workspace, a `/feedback` workflow, etc.

2024-05-31 15:46:48

“My company started using GCP in the last few months, and my tolerance for sanctimonious engineering articles from Google has gone down quite a bit as a result.”
What a quote!

2024-05-30 16:46:50

Getting pretty tired of this being almost my entire tech news feed these days.
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2024-05-28 19:56:50

Google: "A lot of the AI hallucinations are from maliciosly crafted prompts to make us look bad."
Okay geniuses; why does *your own documentation example* show questions about Oppenheimer returning answers about Einstein? And of course getting every single date wrong.
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2024-05-27 17:36:48

Microsoft: “We’re putting security first.”
Also Microsoft: “Windows now comes with what’s functionally a screen capturing keylogger.”
🤡🤡🤡

2024-05-24 20:46:45

If you put needless mandatory text fields in forms, you’re wasting my time. I’ll waste yours right back with my usual placeholder text, “[ object Promise ]”.

2024-05-22 23:56:55

I hereby recant every previous criticism I've ever made of Amazon Bedrock, because this is amazing.
AWS proudly presents: "POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY THE HANDSOME AWS MANAGED NAT GATEWAY"
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2024-05-22 22:46:55

From the annals of bad opt-outs: if you want to opt out of Apple's location services, simply change your SSID to end with "_nomap"
I can't wait for a regulator to slap them on the corporate dick for this.
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2024-05-21 16:56:50

WHO DID THIS
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2024-05-20 21:46:51

I’ve been asking AWS for this for years. Good on Google for implementing it.
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2024-05-20 18:56:52

"It's called X now,' bleats the World's Smartest Man®, for the first time in his life concerned about deadnaming.

2024-05-16 21:36:48

I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.
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2024-05-16 18:46:46

I've gotten a model tuned in to be an excellent probabilistic sarcastic parrot.
"Do you mean 'stochastic parrot?'"
I absolutely do not.

2024-05-15 16:46:48

Yeah, good luck with that Adobe.
“That’s an improper use of our trademark; have you considered sounding like a massive tool instead?”
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2024-05-15 16:36:50

Yeah, good luck with that Adobe.
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2024-05-15 14:06:50

Alan Moss, Amazon’s VP of Global Ad Sales (and apparently a user-hostile schmuck), appears to have forgotten who Prime Video's customers are.
Prime Video costs money. Am I the customer or the product here?
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2024-05-14 16:56:48

My take on the new AWS CEO: the future is brighter than it was yesterday as Matt Garman ascends the Frugal Throne.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/changing-of-the-guard-aws-appoints-matt-garman-as-ceo/

2024-05-14 16:26:46

Adam Selipsky was only at AWS long enough for his CloudFormation stack to finish updating.

2024-05-14 02:44:58

Do I know anyone going to NANOG next month?

2024-05-13 22:46:51

“PCLDLDR?” The fuck does that mean?!
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2024-05-13 21:36:45

Y'know, when every customer service call for decades has said "this call may be recorded for quality and training purposes," I didn't realize they meant "AI training."

2024-05-07 10:39:16

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@npub17lg…9uux holy crap.

2024-05-06 23:27:18

Either Google Cloud has done something next-level horrifying, or this superannuation company is being highly misleading about their own mistake.
Bets?
https://www.unisuper.com.au/contact-us/outage-update

2024-05-04 18:47:20

Teaching my kids that this is “Panda Express.”
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2024-05-03 03:47:16

I’m sure the Amazon earnings call talking about the AWS growth rate mentioned that a month into the quarter they started charging every customer $3.50 per IP address every month, right?

2024-05-01 18:37:19

Rumors are swirling about the deprecation of VMware Cloud on AWS.
I'm proposing a helpful update for the VMC marketing page:
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2024-04-30 16:37:16

AWS has said that they believe the future of GenAI is an assortment of different models. I’m inclined to believe otherwise—one (or two, for images as well as text) great models that are highly versatile.
What do you think, internet?

2024-04-25 16:27:18

Bash dot org may be gone, but I'll carry its spirit with me in 2024.
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2024-04-24 23:27:15

All the cloud vendors say they’ve been “working on AI for decades,” but Intel was shipping Pentiums that were bad at math in 1994.

2024-04-24 17:17:15

Two years ago Microsoft got rid of post-employment noncompetes. This was admirable and impressed me with their corporate philosophy towards their employees.
They deserve credit for this.

2024-04-24 15:57:22

🎶 Apple Bottom jeans and the coat with the furrrr
Robot raises arm, all the servos go “WHIRR”🎵
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2024-04-23 23:07:17

Getting back to my roots a bit.
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2024-04-22 23:37:14

Updating LinkedIn to reflect that I built a substantial portion of Redis (a proprietary fork of Valkey).
"...but you didn't?"
I don't see why that matters any. If Redis-the-company can claim it, so can I.

2024-04-17 14:37:13

There’s extreme value in being honest.
People trust me when I say something (say, Amazon EFS) is good because I’ll also say when something (say, IBM “Cloud”) is molten dogshit.
I bear no responsibility to help vendors peddle crap offerings.

2024-04-14 00:41:42

This ancient Scandinavian rune means “intermittent.”
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2024-04-12 14:11:39

Me realizing that every AWS service I just touched to get an application up existed in 2014 and I’ve wasted the last decade of my life:

2024-04-11 18:41:43

For those who haven't been following the Redis / Valkey drama, I made you a quick explainer. Hope this helps; I think it's remarkably fair and balanced.
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2024-04-11 18:11:41

Good morning to everyone except the thieves at Redis. You didn't build it; you stole it from the community.
If you want it from the ones who built it, it's called Valkey.
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2024-04-09 21:01:41

Both Deloitte and I confuse #GoogleCloudNext and AWS re:Invent, but their website starting with “www2” elevates it to “let’s get you to bed, Grandma” territory.
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2024-04-07 04:08:10

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Remember, when one door closes a window opens.

2024-04-07 03:41:46

Bad interview question: “What does a 747 weigh?”
Correct answer: “Did Boeing remember to include all of the parts during assembly?”

2024-04-04 18:21:48

Shut it down; the internet has come full circle.
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2024-04-01 22:01:44

Corporate April Fools pranks have some real "hey there fellow kids" energy.

2024-04-01 21:01:44

Honestly there are days it feels like the Python maintainers deprecate things everyone uses just for the attention.

2024-03-28 20:03:47

This is genius.
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2024-03-27 20:53:47

Due to inflation, a picture is now worth the 1120 words contained within this blog post.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-anthropic-ai-investment
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2024-03-26 22:13:17

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@npub1t8u…c7sk DNS beat you to the punch by a good few decades, I’m afraid.

2024-03-26 21:23:44

BREAKING: us-east-1 DescribeInstance calls. Suddenly things like "load balancers" potentially won't balance load, or "autoscaling" won't, if this is similar to previous similar incidents.
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2024-03-26 17:43:45

I'm *really* on the fence about attending re:Inforce this year. $1100 is fair for a deep dive into AWS security, but it's a bit steep to hear the 3rd place GenAI cloud provider pretend they're the gold medalist...
Thoughts?
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2024-03-25 19:23:42

I love the security awareness training that asks questions like "what color was Sarah wearing in the video you just watched." Yes, that's what I want employees paying attention to.

2024-03-21 14:13:40

Okay, I give up:
Why do I have to put away an 11" laptop on a plane until we're at altitude, but it's just fine to use a 12.9" tablet with an attached keyboard from gate to gate?

2024-03-12 15:13:45

No notes, Amazon.
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2024-02-27 19:36:01

Twilio is like Google in that they're killing Authy, but they're unlike Google in that they've made migrating off of it an absolutely colossal pain in the neck.

2024-01-03 21:23:34

#awswishlist I wish there was a clear indication which @npub1kra…eq5v regions are real vs. which ones are feature incomplete and were just yeeted over the wall to check somebody's data residency requirement box.