Corey Quinn
@quinnypig.com
Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
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he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
This will be a taxpayer funded commercial for Claude Code.
The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage (Sam Sabin/Axios)
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November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This will be a taxpayer funded commercial for Claude Code.
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If your re:Invent week isn't complete without witnessing Corey Quinn interact with actual humans, this is your moment.
Wednesday at 7pm. Corey will be... well, Corey.
You can decide whether that's the reason you're attending or the challenge you're embracing.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
Wednesday at 7pm. Corey will be... well, Corey.
You can decide whether that's the reason you're attending or the challenge you're embracing.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
Last Week in AWS/Duckbill x RedMonk x Heavybit at re:Invent 2025 · Luma
Need to escape the madness on the strip at re:Invent? Join Duckbill, RedMonk, and Heavybit at Atomic Liquors in downtown Vegas. The best party at re:Invent,…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If your re:Invent week isn't complete without witnessing Corey Quinn interact with actual humans, this is your moment.
Wednesday at 7pm. Corey will be... well, Corey.
You can decide whether that's the reason you're attending or the challenge you're embracing.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
Wednesday at 7pm. Corey will be... well, Corey.
You can decide whether that's the reason you're attending or the challenge you're embracing.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
I like this article very much.
✍️ It's not high-brow, it's not erudite, but it is a ranty af blog post about AI slop: rmoff.net/2025/11/25/a...
#enshittification #AISlop #blogging
#enshittification #AISlop #blogging
AI Smells on Medium
As part of compiling the monthly interesting links posts, I go through a ton of RSS feeds, sourced from specific blogs that I follow as well as general aggregators. These aggregators include quality…
rmoff.net
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I like this article very much.
Give Amazon credit for reversing course when confronted with new information: www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/p...
Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead
Opinion: The hardest part is admitting you were wrong, which AWS did.
www.theregister.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Give Amazon credit for reversing course when confronted with new information: www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/p...
Missed my chat with Dragonfly's CEO on why single-threaded design "doesn't cut it anymore"? You're probably still using one.
We discussed how they rebuilt Redis from the ground up. Watch the "sharp takes" replay.
youtu.be/w2o1WseYblc #InMemoryDatabase #Redis #DragonflyDB
We discussed how they rebuilt Redis from the ground up. Watch the "sharp takes" replay.
youtu.be/w2o1WseYblc #InMemoryDatabase #Redis #DragonflyDB
In-Memory Data Reimagined: Breaking the Limits of In-Memory Data Stores
Learn more about Dragonfly ▶ https://www.dragonflydb.io/
Dragonfly Cloud sign up for free ▶ https://dragonflydb.cloud/
Duckbill’s Corey Quinn had a candid conversation with Dragonfly CEO and…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Missed my chat with Dragonfly's CEO on why single-threaded design "doesn't cut it anymore"? You're probably still using one.
We discussed how they rebuilt Redis from the ground up. Watch the "sharp takes" replay.
youtu.be/w2o1WseYblc #InMemoryDatabase #Redis #DragonflyDB
We discussed how they rebuilt Redis from the ground up. Watch the "sharp takes" replay.
youtu.be/w2o1WseYblc #InMemoryDatabase #Redis #DragonflyDB
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just remembered about the dream i had where they had merged github and imdb into one and kept the imdb branding
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
just remembered about the dream i had where they had merged github and imdb into one and kept the imdb branding
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They’re gonna murder me.
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
They’re gonna murder me.
Congratulations to Google on making a shitty thing worse.
Google starts rolling out ads in AI mode; the ads look similar to the citations in AI answers but with a "sponsored" label (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
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November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Congratulations to Google on making a shitty thing worse.
Pre-keynote breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi with a few of us, and practitioners who know the first question about any new service is always about cost.
Tuesday, December 2. Complimentary. Straightforward. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
Tuesday, December 2. Complimentary. Straightforward. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
AWS re:Invent Pre-Keynote Breakfast · Luma
No Sales. Just Baguettes, My Cloud, and Mes Amis. Join Corey Quinn (Co-Founder, Duckbill Group), Mike Julian (Co-Founder, Duckbill Group) and Josh Patterson…
luma.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Pre-keynote breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi with a few of us, and practitioners who know the first question about any new service is always about cost.
Tuesday, December 2. Complimentary. Straightforward. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
Tuesday, December 2. Complimentary. Straightforward. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
They’re gonna murder me.
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
They’re gonna murder me.
Whoa, this seems like a hell of a re:invent announcement that leaked too early:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Zp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Zp...
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Whoa, this seems like a hell of a re:invent announcement that leaked too early:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Zp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Zp...
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Because Google's Nano Banana stuff has no CLI past the all-encompassing Gemini CLI, I have created imagemage for my own use cases. Feel free to use it, yell at me, etc.
github.com/quinnypig/im...
github.com/quinnypig/im...
GitHub - quinnypig/imagemage: A Gemini Image API / "nanobanana" CLI tool that doesn't care about some Googler's KPIs
A Gemini Image API / "nanobanana" CLI tool that doesn't care about some Googler's KPIs - quinnypig/imagemage
github.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Because Google's Nano Banana stuff has no CLI past the all-encompassing Gemini CLI, I have created imagemage for my own use cases. Feel free to use it, yell at me, etc.
github.com/quinnypig/im...
github.com/quinnypig/im...
Because Google's Nano Banana stuff has no CLI past the all-encompassing Gemini CLI, I have created imagemage for my own use cases. Feel free to use it, yell at me, etc.
github.com/quinnypig/im...
github.com/quinnypig/im...
GitHub - quinnypig/imagemage: A Gemini Image API / "nanobanana" CLI tool that doesn't care about some Googler's KPIs
A Gemini Image API / "nanobanana" CLI tool that doesn't care about some Googler's KPIs - quinnypig/imagemage
github.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Because Google's Nano Banana stuff has no CLI past the all-encompassing Gemini CLI, I have created imagemage for my own use cases. Feel free to use it, yell at me, etc.
github.com/quinnypig/im...
github.com/quinnypig/im...
It is time.
The day has come where we get to announce what we've been working on for the past year 😍
www.duckbillhq.com/blog/skyway-...
www.duckbillhq.com/blog/skyway-...
Skyway: Cloud cost management for the 9-figure club
Introducing Skyway: contract management for enterprise cloud spend. Built by the team overseeing tens-of-billions in enterprise cloud spend.
www.duckbillhq.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It is time.
The Everything Store now selling bonds.
Sources: Amazon is seeking to raise about $12B through a bond sale, its first such deal in US dollars since 2022, to help fund acquisitions, capex, and more (Bloomberg)
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November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The Everything Store now selling bonds.
Amazon escalates its war on customers.
Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick
Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick
Piracy apps are getting the boot from Amazon’s TV streaming sticks.
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Amazon escalates its war on customers.
It shoves ads at you, so that’s gonna be a no from me.
Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) review: better hardware and software, and Alexa+ is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads in the future (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
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November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It shoves ads at you, so that’s gonna be a no from me.
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“Azure is the most cost-effective cloud, because you’re running in someone else’s account”
- Corey Quinn
- Corey Quinn
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“Azure is the most cost-effective cloud, because you’re running in someone else’s account”
- Corey Quinn
- Corey Quinn
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"...it's impossible to find a photo of a datacenter that looks this shitty without IBM Softlayer logos all over it." -- @quinnypig.com on using an LLM-generated datacenter pic on one of his #kubecon presentation slides
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"...it's impossible to find a photo of a datacenter that looks this shitty without IBM Softlayer logos all over it." -- @quinnypig.com on using an LLM-generated datacenter pic on one of his #kubecon presentation slides
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I could not possibly be more fucking tired of hearing the word "agentic" on keynote stages
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I could not possibly be more fucking tired of hearing the word "agentic" on keynote stages
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AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accounts
AWS finally lets you drag-drop accounts between OUs without manual busywork. Only took them how many years? Also love that "auto-enrollment" requires toggling flags and API parameters. So automatic!
AWS finally lets you drag-drop accounts between OUs without manual busywork. Only took them how many years? Also love that "auto-enrollment" requires toggling flags and API parameters. So automatic!
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accounts
AWS finally lets you drag-drop accounts between OUs without manual busywork. Only took them how many years? Also love that "auto-enrollment" requires toggling flags and API parameters. So automatic!
AWS finally lets you drag-drop accounts between OUs without manual busywork. Only took them how many years? Also love that "auto-enrollment" requires toggling flags and API parameters. So automatic!
How disrespectful on Edmund Fitzgerald day!
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How disrespectful on Edmund Fitzgerald day!
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For anyone at KubeCon next week, we'll be hosting beers on the 11th. Find the details at redmonk.com/event/redmon..., and we hope to see you there!
RedMonk Beers
redmonk.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
For anyone at KubeCon next week, we'll be hosting beers on the 11th. Find the details at redmonk.com/event/redmon..., and we hope to see you there!
The Temporal Dev Advocacy team is hiring in 1983.
There's 5 open Staff Dev Advocate roles now open on the Temporal Developer Relations team! Woa!
More importantly, I'm there and you can work on the same team as me: temporal.io/careers
More importantly, I'm there and you can work on the same team as me: temporal.io/careers
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The Temporal Dev Advocacy team is hiring in 1983.