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Quinnypig

@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social

I write LastWeekinAWS.com, and I fix horrifying AWS bills.

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The double-edged sword of my ADHD procrastination strikes again.

Pro: I'm very good in a crisis.
Con: I'm only good in a crisis.

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: give me an option to report bugs to support that doesn’t cost me anything—make it a game even. If the issue is with the service my support fee gets refunded 2x!

I shouldn’t have to tweet like this, to report issues like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/s/aQWTweBErN

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I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.

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I've gotten a model tuned in to be an excellent probabilistic sarcastic parrot.

"Do you mean 'stochastic parrot?'"

I absolutely do not.

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A year and a half after ChatGPT was released, this has never been more evident. Or embarassing.

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Andy Jassy: "Why should you be the next CEO of AWS?"
Matt Garman: "Because I'll get rid of this cursed thing."

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Yeah, good luck with that Adobe.

“That’s an improper use of our trademark; have you considered sounding like a massive tool instead?”

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Yeah, good luck with that Adobe.

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Alan Moss, Amazon’s VP of Global Ad Sales (and apparently a user-hostile schmuck), appears to have forgotten who Prime Video's customers are.

Prime Video costs money. Am I the customer or the product here?

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My take on the new AWS CEO: the future is brighter than it was yesterday as Matt Garman ascends the Frugal Throne.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/changing-of-the-guard-aws-appoints-matt-garman-as-ceo/

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Adam Selipsky was only at AWS long enough for his CloudFormation stack to finish updating.

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“PCLDLDR?” The fuck does that mean?!

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Y'know, when every customer service call for decades has said "this call may be recorded for quality and training purposes," I didn't realize they meant "AI training."

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Nice opportunity here for someone with strong experience https://jobs.gusto.com/postings/duckbill-group-llc-cloud-economist-finops-engineer-contractor-aedffa36-295d-46e3-90ce-dd6b6ada0d30

Assuming you can work @Quinnypig I guess

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@webframp I interact with the team less than you might think these days.

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This UniSuper thing is getting weirder. “Joint statement” with @ThomasOrTK only posted on their site? That looks like they’re lying.

Imagine I posted a joint statement on @LastWeekinAWS with Adam Selipsky; without seeing it from AWS directly, who’d believe it was real?

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And now I'm at ObservabilityCon on the road, which is unfortunately keynoted by @RichiH-- Debian developer, insufferable German Deutschbag, my recurring HausGuest, and non-ironically one of my dearest friends.

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"Let's talk cost control," he says, immediately piquing my interest.

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He's describing cost control as an engineering discipline, not as a performative "Frugality" that requires stuffing people into dog crates as a corporate travel policy.

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"I challenge you to find another vendor that not only makes its cost drivers transparent and easy to understand, but also invests heavily in your ability to pay us less."

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I just know his household budget lives in Excel but has a Grafana dashboard hooked up to it.

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Hitting hard on the theme of how important it is to make observability easy to use. It resonates; your product can be amazing but if you've gotta have a decade of engineering experience you're gonna see some adoption issues in the market.

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Act 1: Best in class visualization.
Act 2: Best in class database engines (wrong, that's Route 53)
Act 3: Making everything easy to use

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Talking about eBPF to avoid the need to instrument your code. This is good; I see application instrumentation struggling to gain priority in an awful lot of companies. Letting the SRE-types do it without application dev buy-in is a good plan.

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Now Manoj Acharya, VP of Eng at Grafana, takes the stage to provide a delightful pleasant contrast to the dour German delivery we've been subject to until now.

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Now @RichiH is talking about AI + ML, something he hasn't mentioned this entire trip because he knows I'd have thrown him out of my guest room and into the street.

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Okay, this is a use of GenAI I endorse: "create a dashboard panel that does X." It sure beats the existing approach of "GOOD LUCK, PUTZ!"

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