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QuinnyPig

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About QuinnyPig

I cast snark and correlate AWS news at lastweekinaws.com in the form of a weekly newsletter. I also fix horrifying AWS bills at The Duckbill Group.

@Quinnypig on Twitter, corey at lastweekinaws.com for email.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49244224

    Man, what a ChatGPT coded article start to finish.

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    Comment #49188428

    Oh dear. Lightsail instances are burstable t family instances. Of course performance is going to be variable; they're generally oversubscribed and subject to noisy neighbor workloa…

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    Comment #48952431

    Was this the day that gp3 EBS volumes came out by any chance?

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    Comment #48706280

    I like how you don’t disclose it uses affiliate links. Real ethical of you.

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    Comment #48704050

    I was really hoping this wouldn’t be AI slop. Alas…

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    Comment #48506292

    If that's the case, I'm fairly confident that AWS will forgive the bill (I... have some experience with this), and the kid learns not to be a jackhole on the internet.

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    Comment #48271122

    They acquired this last year. It’s been shipping since before then.

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    Comment #48203165

    Vercel seems to be pulling it off. So does PlanetScale, albeit for databases only. But everything’s a database.

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    Comment #48145251

    No kidding; t3 instances definitionally have variable performance.

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    Comment #48076580

    You could probably see more if they used their own product.

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    Comment #47981708

    If you really want to know where the data centers are, the local Uber drivers and pizza delivery folks are a great source.

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    Comment #47882019

    Ignoring the AI slop, no surprise; t3 performance is definitionally inconsistent.

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    Comment #47667918

    This 404s and I'm annoyed because this is very much in my wheelhouse of interest.

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    Comment #47494814

    Looks like the site 404s?

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    Comment #47254426

    You'd be surprised by how many industries are vulnerable to military strikes.

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    Comment #47130289

    And how many regions is Cost Explorer in?

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    Comment #46998093

    I always enjoy the color you add to these conversations. Thanks!

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    Comment #46864980

    I like this!

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    Comment #46729487

    That’ll cover a NAT Gateway.

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    Comment #46435446

    Man, your behavior when you realize you got something wrong is something the rest of us can aspire to. This is one of the things I like the best about you.

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    Comment #46365765

    I would love this. How can I help?

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    Comment #46345457

    I can’t recall encountering a system in the last 15 years that didn’t have vim (or at least vi for esoteric things) on it.

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    Comment #46081526

    Here’s my rundown: AWS because I know how it breaks, Google Cloud if you’re starting from scratch due to great DX, Oracle Cloud if you trust them to not go all Oracle with it somed…

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    Comment #45852063

    As much fun as dunking on Amazon for these things is, refunds via the credit card networks are always along this timeframe.

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    Comment #45672183

    I think there’s a meaningful difference between “a ton of organizational knowledge has departed over the past few years” and “they let people go last week so now their site fell ov…