Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.
More Posts from Corey
AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways
By Corey QuinnAfter years of complaints, AWS Compute Optimizer can identify idle NAT Gateways. At $35/month each plus data processing fees, finding unused gateways just got dramatically easier.
AWS Deprecates Two Dozen Services (Most of Which You’ve Never Heard Of)
By Corey QuinnAWS has done its quarterly housecleaning / “Googling” of its services, and deprecated what appears at first glance to be a startlingly long list. However, going through them put my mind at ease, and I’m hoping this post can do the same for you.
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong
By Corey QuinnOne 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
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