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Aurora Spends 10 Years Perfecting the Art of “What the Hell?”

08.25.2025
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Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, 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.

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Episode Show Notes

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 25th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

Links: 

  • AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy
  • SQL injection vulnerability in the AWS Aurora DSQL MCP Server | by Michael Kandelaars | Aug, 2025 | Medium
  • Top AWS chip engineer reportedly defects to Arm
  • Copilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You - Pistachio Blog - Cybersecurity Awareness Training
  • AWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits | InfoWorld
  • Amazon Cloud Chief: Replacing Junior Staff With AI Is 'Dumbest' Idea - Business Insider
  • AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea
  • HR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach | TechCrunch
  • AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong
  •  free senior engineer level code reviews right in your IDE
  • Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation
  • Vibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0
  • Enhanced throttling observability in Amazon DynamoDB
  • Under the hood: how AWS Lambda SnapStart optimizes function startup latency
  • AWS Security Incident Response introduces integrations with ITSM
  • Amazon Cognito adds terms of use and privacy policy documents support to Managed Login
  • AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides customizable Dashboards
  • AWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actions
  • Amazon VPC IPAM adds in-console CloudWatch alarm management
  • https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

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