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09.24.2026

Infinidash: AWS’s New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner

By Corey Quinn
Infinidash: AWS’s New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner AWS has just released something fascinating in the form of CloudWatch Omni. I want to be upfront before I…
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AWS isn’t killing your business, you just suck at it

By Corey Quinn

Lots of companies are quick to blame AWS for their problems. They should be blaming their own boneheaded moves instead.

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You Need a Multi-Cloud Dashboard Because I Want To Sell You One

By Corey Quinn

The only vendors selling multi-cloud dashboards are the ones who’d be out of business if you didn’t buy them.

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Happy Birthday Werner Vogels!

By Corey Quinn

After watching enough of his talks to recite them by heart, The Duckbill Group says "happy birthday" to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels in our own special way.

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What the hell is a vCPU-based on-demand service limit?

By Corey Quinn

AWS is very eager to tell you something that they can't quite articulate.

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Understanding Data Transfer in AWS

By Corey Quinn

How much does it cost to move a terabyte of data in AWS? Who the hell knows. We tried though, and created a diagram to illustrate it.

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How ConvertKit Could Lower Its $64K Monthly AWS Bill

By Corey Quinn

ConvertKit posted their AWS bill, so I've given it a full analysis just like I do for our clients. Here's six easy ways to improve their AWS bill.

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What Would AWS Prime Look Like?

By Corey Quinn

Introducing AWS Prime, a monthly subscription service that makes all of your cloudy dreams come true!

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An Internal PaaS to Manage AWS: Don’t Do It!

By Corey Quinn

Atlassian built an internal PaaS to manage AWS. This is usually a bad idea, and you're not Atlassian.

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Happy 75th Birthday Larry Ellison!

By Corey Quinn

After 75 years of very distinctive work on this planet, The Duckbill Group says "thank you" to Oracle founder Larry Ellison in our own special way.

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Microsoft Screws Customers and its Own Advocates Alike

By Corey Quinn

Microsoft’s recent licensing change for Windows Server is a great modern-day example of why so many businesses hated Microsoft two decades ago. Is this an aberration, or are they back to their old tricks?

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Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer

By Corey Quinn

I once turned down a job offer from AWS, who told me my reasoning was preposterous. Last week they did exactly what I was afraid of.

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Observerless: The hottest new thing in monitoring you’re already doing

By Corey Quinn

Settle the monitoring vs observability debate by adopting Observerless principles--it's the the hottest new thing in monitoring you're already doing.

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