Corey Quinn

Put Down the Pitchfork, AWS Didn’t Steal Your Dunning-Krugerrands

By Corey Quinn

For those who are just stumbling upon this blog for the first time with no context, I’m a very loud critic of Amazon Web Services whenever I feel they deserve it (services that are poorly documented, status pages that don’t update, catering options that don’t appeal to my appetite that day, etc.). Today, I was […]

What I Don’t See From AWS Support

By Corey Quinn

Today Randall Hunt posted an “emotional rant about AWS support” chronicling what he’s seen from them over the past ten years, and invited others to chime in with their experiences. Given that I’m arguably one of the four most sarcastic observers of AWS in the world, I figured I’d take him up on that invitation […]

A Chat with AWSgeek

By Corey Quinn

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 […]

A Static Headache

By Corey Quinn

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 […]