Corey Quinn

When it comes to running MySQL or PostgreSQL on top of AWS, you’ve got three realistic options to choose from. Let’s figure out what works best for you.

I spent a year giving talks from an iPad instead of a laptop. Here are the lessons I learned along the way.

AWS Enterprise Support is a fantastic waste of money–unless you use the support it buys you properly, at which point it becomes a jewel beyond price.

The Releases of re:Invent 2018–to the tune of “Nations of the World!”

As we drown this week in a cacophony of AWS service releases (“Route53 Resolver now exists!” “IAM users now support tagging!” “Introducing our no-SQL service for digital video, DynamoDV!”), one came out yesterday that caused me to do a spit-take. Specifically, a little-remarked upon change declared that AWS has renamed EC2 Elastic GPUs to Elastic […]

I give an obnoxious number of conference talks–and I have done so for years. In the last year alone, I’ve been a speaker at over a dozen conferences, including AWS re:Invent, Oracle CodeOne, LatencyConf, and several DevOps Days. So many people have asked questions about my presentation preparation process that I decided to record my […]

A few months back I went to my local testing center and took the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. As the visually-busy website says, this certification determines the candidate’s ability to define what the AWS cloud is, describe basic architectural principles, and is generally recommended for candidates with at least six months of exposure to […]

Several weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an article about how the Pokémon Company inspects the security practices of its business partners. One prospective unnamed partner had insufficient controls around S3 buckets, so the Pokémon Company declined to partner with them. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of a company taking such […]

The 2018 Last Week in AWS charity t-shirt campaign has launched. Buy a t-shirt to benefit a good cause; this year’s campaign proceeds all go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Several Amazonians have reached out to me saying they’d like to purchase a shirt, but are concerned that their employer wouldn’t like it due […]

A few thoughts on Disaster Recovery planning in AWS environments that most people apparently gloss right over.