Corey Quinn

Inventing Yourself: The Musings of an Assistant Regional Thought Manager – DevOpsDays Tel Aviv 2017 from The Duckbill Group on Vimeo.

Corey: Hi, Jerry. Thanks for joining me. So you’re better known these days as AWSgeek. A few months ago you starting putting up these fascinating drawings about various AWS services. So, who are you, and how did you get started with this? Jerry: By day, I’m a Solutions Architect at Rackspace. As part of this […]

LastWeekinAWS.com exists [Editor’s note: It did exist this way at the time it was written. This is no longer true.] as a series of programmatically generated static pages that end up in an S3 bucket. (The generation process, while fascinating, is going to be the subject of a different blog post at some point and […]

I got an email last week from AWS telling me that since my Last Week in AWS account is now a year old, its qualification for the 12-month free tier is expiring. All good things must end, and I was expecting this. “If you want to estimate your monthly bill,” ends the email, “you can […]

Historically, one big item in AWS cost reports that wasn’t able to be assigned various costing tags has been EBS snapshots. The reasoning behind this was presumably tied to their differential nature– it’s presumably non-trivial to allocate thousands of very small amounts of data to a cost tag, nor was it a particularly high priority. […]