Corey Quinn

One of the neat things about AWS is that it’s almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is… that it’s almost twenty years old

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the promotion of Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, effective immediately. In this expanded role, Malphas will oversee the company’s strategic initiatives in byzantine pricing models, confusing product nomenclature, and Generative AI.

Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief.

Welcome, intrepid cloud explorer! You’ve decided to venture into the AWS jungle in 2025, where the services multiply faster than your monthly bill. Forget those quaint relics like S3, EC2, and RDS that everyone always gravitates towards—despite being the lion’s share of AWS revenue, they’re practically stone tablets now when it comes to interest and attention. Let’s talk about navigating the real AWS experience.

I don’t think it’s going too far to say that free TLS certificate offerings like Let’s Encrypt and AWS Certificate Manager have taken encrypted connections mainstream.

Or: Surprise! I Contain Multitudes and Also Your “Serverless” Functions

Five years ago, I fairly confidently stated that Cloud Repatriation Isn’t a Thing, and I by and large stand by what I wrote. That said, it’s 2025, and the story has changed somewhat.

AWS has announced a round of service deprecations, and I couldn’t be happier—but I do have some quibbles.

At the same time as AWS Transform has hit General Availability, AWS updated its service terms with a new requirement.

Here’s a thing I’ve always wanted to do: take Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter and translate it into human.

Changing AWS Chatbot to Amazon Q Developer presumably serves internal AWS purposes that may or may not resemble empire-building, but it serves no customers.

Here’s how AWS is doing at each of the three layers the business has identified for its approach to AI.