Eric Pullen
@ericpullen.com
Cloud Economist @duckbillgroup Previously Global SA @awscloud Opinions are my own. Based in KY
I'm thinking of launching a consultancy where I fly first class to various Fortune 500 companies and sit in conference rooms saying 'That's not how AI works'.
Shit, I think I'm already booked through 2026!
Shit, I think I'm already booked through 2026!
October 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I'm thinking of launching a consultancy where I fly first class to various Fortune 500 companies and sit in conference rooms saying 'That's not how AI works'.
Shit, I think I'm already booked through 2026!
Shit, I think I'm already booked through 2026!
Holy cow it’s been 9 years since @awscloud.bsky.social us-east-2 came into existence. I still believe it should have been named us-central-1
October 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Holy cow it’s been 9 years since @awscloud.bsky.social us-east-2 came into existence. I still believe it should have been named us-central-1
Reposted by Eric Pullen
Planning your next big AWS contract negotiation? Don't go in blind. Our Negotiation Edition Office Hours give you access to specialists who can help you secure the best possible terms.
Bring your questions, leave with leverage: duckbillgroup.com/officehours
#finops
Bring your questions, leave with leverage: duckbillgroup.com/officehours
#finops
Office Hours
Bring your questions and horrifying AWS bills to this interactive session.
duckbillgroup.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Planning your next big AWS contract negotiation? Don't go in blind. Our Negotiation Edition Office Hours give you access to specialists who can help you secure the best possible terms.
Bring your questions, leave with leverage: duckbillgroup.com/officehours
#finops
Bring your questions, leave with leverage: duckbillgroup.com/officehours
#finops
While @quinnypig.com is out enjoying @monktoberfest.com in the wilds of Maine, I will be taking your Office Hours questions today. Come join me!
So your AWS bill made you cry again.
Come scream into the void with us. We call it Office Hours.
Budget drama
Architecture chaos
Unfiltered answers (and opinions)
Every Thursday. No slide decks. No gatekeeping.
duckbillgroup.com/officehours
Come scream into the void with us. We call it Office Hours.
Budget drama
Architecture chaos
Unfiltered answers (and opinions)
Every Thursday. No slide decks. No gatekeeping.
duckbillgroup.com/officehours
Office Hours
Bring your questions and horrifying AWS bills to this interactive session.
duckbillgroup.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
While @quinnypig.com is out enjoying @monktoberfest.com in the wilds of Maine, I will be taking your Office Hours questions today. Come join me!
Stop by and ask us some questions!
Cloud costs got you in a corner?
Let’s talk it out.
Office Hours is free and open to all. Every Thursday.
Let’s talk it out.
Office Hours is free and open to all. Every Thursday.
Office Hours
Bring your questions and horrifying AWS bills to this interactive session.
www.duckbillgroup.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Stop by and ask us some questions!
Come join me tomorrow as I try and do my best filling in for @quinnypig.com answering your questions. It may not be as snarky, but I will try and make it fun!
TOMORROW! We’ll tackle your questions, your bills, your war stories, and, why not, your peace stories, too. Join us at 10:00a PDT: www.duckbillgroup.com/officehours/...
Office Hours
Bring your questions and horrifying AWS bills to this interactive session.
www.duckbillgroup.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Come join me tomorrow as I try and do my best filling in for @quinnypig.com answering your questions. It may not be as snarky, but I will try and make it fun!
This is perfection. HBD to my favorite current boss @quinnypig.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is perfection. HBD to my favorite current boss @quinnypig.com
Ever since I started working at @duckbillgroup.com, I've had a new appreciation anytime I see a cute baby platypus.
July 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Ever since I started working at @duckbillgroup.com, I've had a new appreciation anytime I see a cute baby platypus.
Ruh-roh 😳
AWS security bulletin: aws.amazon.com/security/sec...
"This issue did not affect any production services or end-users."
Weird how customer logs show the wiper prompt executing.
Anyone else see "clean a system to a near-factory state" in your logs?
"This issue did not affect any production services or end-users."
Weird how customer logs show the wiper prompt executing.
Anyone else see "clean a system to a near-factory state" in your logs?
July 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Ruh-roh 😳
Reposted by Eric Pullen
🚨 Amazon Q shipped with a self-destruct button, and we're not joking.
A hacker injected a prompt telling Q to wipe computers and delete AWS resources. Amazon shipped it to 950k users.
Full story: lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-q-now-with-helpful-ai-powered-self-destruct-capabilities/
A hacker injected a prompt telling Q to wipe computers and delete AWS resources. Amazon shipped it to 950k users.
Full story: lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-q-now-with-helpful-ai-powered-self-destruct-capabilities/
Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities - Last Week in AWS Blog
Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief. To break it down into its simplest form: A hacker submitted a PR. It got merged. It told Amazon Q to nuke your computer and…
lastweekinaws.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
🚨 Amazon Q shipped with a self-destruct button, and we're not joking.
A hacker injected a prompt telling Q to wipe computers and delete AWS resources. Amazon shipped it to 950k users.
Full story: lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-q-now-with-helpful-ai-powered-self-destruct-capabilities/
A hacker injected a prompt telling Q to wipe computers and delete AWS resources. Amazon shipped it to 950k users.
Full story: lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-q-now-with-helpful-ai-powered-self-destruct-capabilities/
Reposted by Eric Pullen
“$110M a year on AWS? I could do it for half!”
Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.
Sit down.
www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.
Sit down.
www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is
Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used ...
www.duckbillgroup.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“$110M a year on AWS? I could do it for half!”
Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.
Sit down.
www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.
Sit down.
www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
Finally!
Amazon Bedrock now provides CloudWatch metrics for Agents, enabling developers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize agent performance with detailed runtime insights across invocations, latency, and token usage.
Announcing Amazon Bedrock Agents Metrics in CloudWatch
Amazon Bedrock now provides CloudWatch metrics for Agents, enabling developers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize agent performance with detailed runtime insights across invocations, latency, and token usage.
aws-news.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Finally!
So weird that they didn’t acknowledge this in the blog posts announcing AWS Transform.
✨New✨ from @quinnypig.com: an update to AWS’s service terms contains some, er, concerning language about AWS Transform... www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-tra...
The One-Way Door of AWS Transform: a Secret 24-month Lock-Up
At the same time as AWS Transform has hit General Availability, AWS updated its service terms with a new requirement.
www.lastweekinaws.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
So weird that they didn’t acknowledge this in the blog posts announcing AWS Transform.
The older I get, the more I look back fondly on my early days of computers. Today I got 2 almost pristine copies of Computer Shopper off eBay, and I’m downright giddy tonight flipping through the pages. Let’s explore some together:
May 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The older I get, the more I look back fondly on my early days of computers. Today I got 2 almost pristine copies of Computer Shopper off eBay, and I’m downright giddy tonight flipping through the pages. Let’s explore some together:
#AWS Wishlist for today - I want a CloudWatch Metric for AWS/Logs for Vended Logs. I can see total CW Logs in an account using IncomingBytes, but I want to see how much of that is Vended Logs now.
Looks like the only way to get this data is to use Cost Explorer and look at *-VendedLog-Bytes
Looks like the only way to get this data is to use Cost Explorer and look at *-VendedLog-Bytes
May 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
#AWS Wishlist for today - I want a CloudWatch Metric for AWS/Logs for Vended Logs. I can see total CW Logs in an account using IncomingBytes, but I want to see how much of that is Vended Logs now.
Looks like the only way to get this data is to use Cost Explorer and look at *-VendedLog-Bytes
Looks like the only way to get this data is to use Cost Explorer and look at *-VendedLog-Bytes
I wrote another thing for Duckbill... this time focusing in on the recent change to CloudWatch Logs, and this one even has a Github repo to go along with it!
github.com/DuckbillGrou...
github.com/DuckbillGrou...
May 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I wrote another thing for Duckbill... this time focusing in on the recent change to CloudWatch Logs, and this one even has a Github repo to go along with it!
github.com/DuckbillGrou...
github.com/DuckbillGrou...
Rocky is tired of all this rain, but also it’s Sunday so might as well nap on a pillow.
May 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Rocky is tired of all this rain, but also it’s Sunday so might as well nap on a pillow.
Holy cow… tiered pricing for CWLogs, as they reclassified them as vended logs! aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
AWS Lambda introduces tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch logs and additional logging destinations | Amazon Web Services
Effective logging is an important part of an observability strategy when building serverless applications using AWS Lambda. Lambda automatically captures and sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This...
aws.amazon.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Holy cow… tiered pricing for CWLogs, as they reclassified them as vended logs! aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
I wrote a blog about RDS RI's today, go check it out! If you want to ask questions, feel free to stop by our office hours in 15 minutes. duckbillgroup.com/officehours
May 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I wrote a blog about RDS RI's today, go check it out! If you want to ask questions, feel free to stop by our office hours in 15 minutes. duckbillgroup.com/officehours
Come join me this week as I host our FinOps office hours! I have written a lot of our AWS service analyzers, so stop by and pick my brain!
Don’t miss this: Duckbill Group FinOps Office Hours. We’ll tackle your bills and answer your questions. THURSDAY, 10:00a PT. Register (it’s free!): duckbillgroup.com/officehours
April 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Come join me this week as I host our FinOps office hours! I have written a lot of our AWS service analyzers, so stop by and pick my brain!
Reposted by Eric Pullen
This goes about like you think it would: starts off with a Clippy joke, then rapidly descends from there.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders—annotated
Here’s a thing I’ve always wanted to do: take Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter and translate it into human.
www.lastweekinaws.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This goes about like you think it would: starts off with a Clippy joke, then rapidly descends from there.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...
I think I’ll join Corey this week and see what all the hullabaloo is about!
Tomorrow at 10AM: duckbillgroup.com/officehours
I'll have something in your email before then that you might want to chat with me about. Ahem.
I'll have something in your email before then that you might want to chat with me about. Ahem.
Duckbill Office Hours
Bring your questions and horrifying AWS bills to this interactive session.
duckbillgroup.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I think I’ll join Corey this week and see what all the hullabaloo is about!
Oh fun, a whole new type of AWS reservation! 🥴
Amazon Redshift introduces Serverless Reservations, a new pricing option that allows customers to save up to 24% on compute costs by committing to specific RPU levels for one year.
Announcing Serverless Reservations, a new discounted pricing option for Amazon Redshift Serverless
Amazon Redshift introduces Serverless Reservations, a new pricing option that allows customers to save up to 24% on compute costs by committing to specific RPU levels for one year.
aws-news.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Oh fun, a whole new type of AWS reservation! 🥴
Is it just me, or are you also just walking around your house mumbling “what the actual fuck is going on” at random times? No, just me… ok cool.
April 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Is it just me, or are you also just walking around your house mumbling “what the actual fuck is going on” at random times? No, just me… ok cool.