Corey Quinn
@quinnypig.com
Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
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he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
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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.
There are email newsletters that post better quarterly revenues.
Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
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November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There are email newsletters that post better quarterly revenues.
I’m very much liking the Gazetteer. Amusingly enough, I first learned about them from the side of a bus.
With Nancy Pelosi announcing her retirement, we look back on her remarkable, and at times contentious, career. She was a 1-of-1 politician. But she's also the exact opposite of the leader SF now needs.
New commentary from @eddiekimx.bsky.social:
(Free gift link!) sf.gazetteer.co/goodbye-to-a...
New commentary from @eddiekimx.bsky.social:
(Free gift link!) sf.gazetteer.co/goodbye-to-a...
Goodbye to all of that
As we look back on Nancy Pelosi’s 1 of 1 career, we should also look forward to what we actually need next
sf.gazetteer.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m very much liking the Gazetteer. Amusingly enough, I first learned about them from the side of a bus.
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as @dinseaferno.bsky.social pointed out this is both a Skyrim loading tip and actually good advice for real world social skills
When simply greeting the security guy at the local mini supermarket every time, eventually you can get useful tips on the freshest and nicest pastries.
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
as @dinseaferno.bsky.social pointed out this is both a Skyrim loading tip and actually good advice for real world social skills
HEARTBREAKING: worst person you know makes a good point
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, accusing the company of "flagrantly ignoring" safety laws and calling it a "breeding ground for predators" (Osmond Chia/BBC)
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November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
HEARTBREAKING: worst person you know makes a good point
Okay, cool, but right now every hyperscaler is looking at tens or hundreds of billions worth of “hole in their balance sheets” if OpenAI can’t pay for the ~$1.4 trillion they’ve committed to.
And those hyperscalers are, y’know. In everyone’s retirement accounts.
And those hyperscalers are, y’know. In everyone’s retirement accounts.
Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting "hundreds of billions by 2030" (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
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November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Okay, cool, but right now every hyperscaler is looking at tens or hundreds of billions worth of “hole in their balance sheets” if OpenAI can’t pay for the ~$1.4 trillion they’ve committed to.
And those hyperscalers are, y’know. In everyone’s retirement accounts.
And those hyperscalers are, y’know. In everyone’s retirement accounts.