Corey Quinn

The Cloud Devil You Know

By Corey Quinn

My Route53 database is humming along nicely, my podcast interview backlog is full, and I’ve outsourced my thinking to ChatGPT, so I have some unprecedented free time to build a side project. Awesome! What cloud provider should I use?

Why Your CPU-Based Utilisation Metric is Absolute Nonsense

By Corey Quinn

Picture this: You’re in your swivel chair, feet propped up on your standing desk because you are a glorious acrobat, and you’re looking over your company’s Amazon EC2 fleet utilization report. You’re captivated by the custom colorful dashboard, carefully tuned to a 1st-grade reading level. You see the overall number in its soft, non-threatening font, […]

The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill

By Corey Quinn

How much would AWS cost for Amazon Prime Day? Here’s Corey Quinn’s best guess at the company’s AWS bill for the two-day shopping event.

Breaking: AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses

By Corey Quinn

In a rare price hike, AWS will be charging for IPv4 addresses. The change brings them in line with other cloud providers and encourages good internet hygiene.

It’s Extremely Likely You Should Not Use GovCloud

By Corey Quinn

AWS GovCloud is a service that you likely shouldn’t use for your workload over the standard commercial AWS regions. But don’t take my word for it — take AWS’s.

us-west-1: The Flagship AWS Region That Isn’t

By Corey Quinn

For a flagship AWS region based in Northern California, us-west-1 gets way less use than you’d expect. Here’s my best guess as to why.

FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business

By Corey Quinn

Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn answers the Federal Trade Commission’s Request for Information about the business practices of cloud computing providers.

17 Final Ways to Run Containers

By Corey Quinn

I originally had a throwaway joke on Twitter that became an article: 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS. That was all well and good, and because I don’t know when to leave well enough alone, a few months later I wrote 17 More Ways to Run Containers on AWS. And now, since I don’t know when to leave well enough alone and stop beating the greasy smear on the sidewalk where the horse used to be, I want to introduce the third article in this series.

A Hidden Serverless Peril

By Corey Quinn

“Serverless” has become a catch-all term that’s been watered down enthusiastically, particularly by AWS offerings that look an awful lot like “serverfull” products to most of its customers, so let me clarify what I mean here.

9 Things I Love About AWS

By Corey Quinn

People sometimes ask me why I’m so hard on AWS. Honestly, it’s because I love what AWS does and want to see it succeed! There’s quite a lot the business does well, so this week, I’d like to tell you my nine favorite things about AWS. If you work there, please don’t think that your […]

Why AWS Might Be the Next Backbone Provider

By Corey Quinn

Amazon EC2 instances are the lifeblood for most AWS customers, but they’re treated as passé internet infrastructure. Let’s talk about them.

LocalStack: Why Local Development for Cloud Workloads Makes Sense

By Corey Quinn

LocalStack 2.0 emulates AWS APIs and their responses for local development. In some cases, the benefits outweigh the silliness of mocking cloud services locally.