Corey Quinn

AWS services will only continue to expand, fueled by Amazon’s structure and culture. Its customers lose until AWS figures out how to unite its internal teams.

Getting started with Kubernetes? Try learning it the hard way … seriously. Doing a hands-on tutorial can open new levels of understanding about the platform.

AWS Managed NAT Gateway alternatives have been flimsy at best. In alterNAT, we finally have a viable NAT gateway alternative that saves AWS customers money.

If you’re unfortunate enough to be attending re:Invent in person, you can find a lot of guides suggesting things that are not to be missed, survival tips to remember, and how to get “the best experience” from the show. Most of them are molten garbage. Instead, I’m going to give you the tips I give […]

Cloud integrated development environments (IDE) aren’t being adopted by programmers at the same rate as other cloud technology. What gives?

Kubernetes is an unavoidable solution for running containerized applications in production. It solves some real problems — but introduces a host of others.

Free doesn’t always mean “free,” like when taking a Twix from an exhibit hall booth means I get suckered into an awkward sales pitch. (Never make eye contact when you swipe the swag!) But when AWS says its data ingress is free, it’s not kidding — I even verified it for you.

Threat modeling doesn’t point to confidential computing as a solution for cloud security. Ultimately, it’s a marketing ploy that targets cloud skeptics.

As a new user of Kubernetes, I’m already confronted with what feels like too many choices and too little authoritative direction about the “right” way to get set up. I can therefore assume rely on only one central truth: I’m doing it wrong.

There’s a vacancy in AWS’s C-suite. What should customers and onlookers expect from the cloud service’s next chief marketing officer? A lot, because I intend for that person to be me.

I’ve been beating Azure up a fair bit lately, which is no great surprise to anyone who’s a regular reader of this publication. A friend of mine mentioned over drinks that she thinks of Azure as “the Boomer cloud,” at which point I spat my own drink out and immediately knew what I had to […]

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