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Corey Quinn
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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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They’re gonna murder me.
AWS marketing about to murder me
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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There I fixed it
The progressive delivery book with a cover that hasn’t finished rendering yet
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Huh. At least on macOS, less really is more.
Text screenshot: ``` $ ls -al `which more`; ls -al `which less` -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 451152 Sep 25 00:03 /usr/bin/more -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 451152 Sep 25 00:03 /usr/bin/less $ shasum `which more`; shasum `which less` 3218fb8943fc708a2a238557ea3a75b80ec6f43b /usr/bin/more 3218fb8943fc708a2a238557ea3a75b80ec6f43b /usr/bin/less $ ```
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Billie will be focusing his efforts on @lastweekinaws.com and also larceny.
Billie holding a large mallet for no clear reason
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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AWS: “I wonder who that’s for?”
Garfield, looking at a sign banning Garfield
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Empty cracker box
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I dunno how it works at Amazon, but AI has been shoved into every work product I use, over my objections.

“Until AWS ships it it’s not real?” Please.
An insipid tweet from Andy Jasey, where he talks about how we’ve all experienced how consumer AI can help us in our personal lives, but that same experience hasn’t been available at work
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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At the Retool Summit in SF this morning. Positioning themselves as an enterprise AppGen platform.

I’ve been a Retool customer since 2019; I’m a big fan.
Retool CEO giving a keynote
October 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Tell me you haven’t updated your understanding of LA since the late 20th century, but use different words.
Marketing display designed as a dating app interface with "From, LA:" header and message reading "Love a good smog fog? Inspired by stifling traffic? You make more than $100K, right? 😂 Sorry, am I coming off thirsty?" Features reject/accept buttons, a "NOPE" stamp, and "Swipe left on your never home" tagline. Bottom shows QR code and "LIVE + WORK MAINE" logo with website information.
October 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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“In range?” Did the Portland “International” Jetport install a missile battery since the last time I was in Maine?
An aircraft arrivals board. One item is listed as in range.
October 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Man, this @productmanager.bsky.social guy is a MASSIVE douchebag. #monktoberfest.
Me, wearing Ricardo’s nametag
October 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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This you?
Group of people at a funeral, gathered around a casket.
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Launching soon: Ratsissimo, the AI-powered Singing Rat Trap. Backed by Y-Exterminator, through a partnership with RatGPT technology.
October 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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It must be end of quarter over at Slack/Salesforce, since slack.lastweekinaws.com now shows a giant "Upgrade" plan button I can't get rid of.
A person's hand pointing at the "Upgrade Plan" button on a mobile device screen.
September 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Apple’s local foundation model isn’t the best on iOS.
An image showing a user interface with text asking to rank US presidents by "absorbency", an unusual metric not commonly used in political science or history.
September 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Someone on the AWS billing team is stupid like a fox.
Transparent pricing, complex pricing, confusing pricing, and a call to make the calculator a paid service, illustrated with images of the human brain.
September 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I am personally attacking 40 different AWS services at a minimum here.
Anime meme showing a character pointing at a yellow butterfly, with text labels "AWS" over the character, "RENAMING A SERVICE AND SLAPPING 'AMAZON' ON THE FRONT" over the butterfly, and "IS THIS INNOVATION?" at the bottom. Based on the popular "Is this a pigeon?" meme template.
September 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I will never understand why Google *could not race fast enough* to completely torpedo their own generational credibility.
Google search results page in dark mode showing a query for "smile app launcher ios 26" with an AI overview explaining that Smile App Launcher is a free iOS home screen widget app for quick access to essential apps, while highlighting that iOS 26 is fictional as iOS 18 is the latest version.
September 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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If you book a meeting with me my first day back from vacation, then you’re (like a good dogcatcher) gonna catch some strays.
Me dressed as a Frenchman from the Stereotype Catalog
September 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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thank you, Eugene
Four-panel comic strip showing penguins on a snowy landscape. In panel 1, a penguin says "um, sir?" pointing to a sign reading "our enimy". Panel 2: "sir, you spelled 'enemy' incorrectly." Panel 3: "thank you, Eugene." Panel 4: A killer whale bursts through the ice where the penguins were standing, with small penguin figures flying through the air.
September 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Follow the wine rabbit.
A statue of an absolutely bullshit rabbit outside of a vineyard. It’s incredibly fucked-up looking.
September 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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What the fuck is an “array” in this context?
My third grader’s inscrutable math homework.
September 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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I can upload my own GIFs too, at long last.
September 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I thought I was kidding but it turns out I'm spot on.
Text screenshot: | Actions | Description | Access level | Resource types (*required) | Condition keys | Dependent actions | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | DeleteAccountColor | Grants permission to delete the color associated with the account | Write | | | | | GetAccountColor | Grants permission to get the color associated with the account | Read | | | | | PutAccountColor | Grants permission to sets the color associated with an account | Write | | | |
August 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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"Alexa, show me the most bullshit AWS IAM permission in the world."
Text screenshot: "You don't have permission to see the color for this account"
August 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM