Corey Quinn

The Lost Opportunity of Amazon Kendra

By Corey Quinn

Amazon Kendra feels like a lost opportunity to onboard AWS customers of a different stripe.

Why Zoom Chose Oracle Cloud Over AWS and Maybe You Should Too

By Corey Quinn

Updated: May 1, 2020. See the bottom of this article for some clarifications. Today, news broke that Zoom signed a deal with Oracle Cloud to host their cloud infrastructure, beating out AWS, Azure, and GCP. You might expect that this is about to be a post full of Oracle bashing. You’re about to be disappointed. […]

I played around with Google Cloud, expecting it to be terrible. It wasn’t.

By Corey Quinn

There are few things less satisfying than when you set up to dunk on a Google product, but discover it’s unexpectedly awesome.

It’s Time to Rethink the AWS Free Tier

By Corey Quinn

AWS’s free tier was imagined as a no-risk way to test out AWS services before building meaningful infrastructure on the platform. The reality has become something very different.

Ask Me Anything About AWS Billing

By Corey Quinn

Twitter asked a bunch of questions about the AWS bill; I took it upon myself to respond to a selection of them.

An AWS Bill Analysis: Changelogs.md

By Corey Quinn

The changelogs.md AWS bill was opened to our analysis. Here’s what we found…

5 Takeaways from Poking around IBM Cloud

By Corey Quinn

The problem with IBM Cloud’s aggressive marketing campaign is that someone might actually try using it.

Google Cloud is (Probably) Here to Stay

By Corey Quinn

For myriad reasons, GCP isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. And that’s a good thing.

With Compute Optimizer, AWS Finds an Actual Use For AI/ML

By Corey Quinn

AWS has granted my wish and turned its AI/ML focus toward the most intractable of problems: the AWS bill.

5 Pervasive AWS Myths Debunked

By Corey Quinn

How did re:Invent get its name, what is EC2’s origin story, and how does Amazon name its services? We spoke with company brass to find out.

AWS Begins Sunsetting RIs; Replaces Them With Something Much, Much Better

By Corey Quinn

Don’t worry, Reserved Instances will still be around. You just don’t have to think about them anymore unless you want to.