Eric Pullen
@ericpullen.com
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Cloud Economist @duckbillgroup Previously Global SA @awscloud Opinions are my own. Based in KY
Have you ever wondered what
@quinnypig.com
would say if AWS finally released Savings Plans for RDS? Well wonder no more, just listen to the the end of the latest LWIA episode for a hilarious 3 minute diatribe!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0U4...
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Corey Quinn Crashes Out
YouTube video by Last Week in AWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0U4Tl5lCpM
20 days ago
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If you are at
#reinvent2025
, stop by and say hi! We are in booth #1217 right next to Splunk.
27 days ago
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Anyone else noticed that the
#Venetian
smells of cigarette smoke way more than in the past? Already burning my throat just walking through the casino.
#AWSreInvent
28 days ago
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Headed to
#AWSreInvent
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@Southwest.com
flight. Canât wait to have all of the moisture removed from my body as I learn about the latest ingestion priced service you are all going to wildly overspend on!
28 days ago
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I'm thinking of launching a consultancy where I fly first class to various Fortune 500 companies and sit in conference rooms saying 'That's not how AI works'. Shit, I think I'm already booked through 2026!
about 2 months ago
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Holy cow itâs been 9 years since
@awscloud.bsky.social
us-east-2 came into existence. I still believe it should have been named us-central-1
2 months ago
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Duckbill
2 months ago
Planning your next big AWS contract negotiation? Don't go in blind. Our Negotiation Edition Office Hours give you access to specialists who can help you secure the best possible terms. Bring your questions, leave with leverage:
duckbillgroup.com/officehours
#finops
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Office Hours
Bring your questions and horrifying AWS bills to this interactive session.
https://duckbillgroup.com/officehours
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While
@quinnypig.com
is out enjoying
@monktoberfest.com
in the wilds of Maine, I will be taking your Office Hours questions today. Come join me!
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3 months ago
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Stop by and ask us some questions!
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3 months ago
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Come join me tomorrow as I try and do my best filling in for
@quinnypig.com
answering your questions. It may not be as snarky, but I will try and make it fun!
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4 months ago
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This is perfection. HBD to my favorite current boss
@quinnypig.com
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5 months ago
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Ever since I started working at
@duckbillgroup.com
, I've had a new appreciation anytime I see a cute baby platypus.
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5 months ago
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Ruh-roh đł
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5 months ago
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Eric Pullen
5 months ago
đ¨ Amazon Q shipped with a self-destruct button, and we're not joking. A hacker injected a prompt telling Q to wipe computers and delete AWS resources. Amazon shipped it to 950k users. Full story:
lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-q-now-with-helpful-ai-powered-self-destruct-capabilities/
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Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities - Last Week in AWS Blog
Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief. To break it down into its simplest form: A hacker submitted a PR. It got merged. It told Amazon Q to nuke your computer andâŚ
https://lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-q-now-with-helpful-ai-powered-self-destruct-capabilities/
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Corey Quinn
6 months ago
â$110M a year on AWS? I could do it for half!â Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates. Sit down.
www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
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Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is
Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used ...
https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-300k-daily-aws-bill-isnt-the-scandal-you-think-it-is/
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Tutu finally got to get on Rockyâs body! 𼚠it wonât be long and they will be napping in the floor together.
#bunny
#labrador
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7 months ago
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Finally!
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7 months ago
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So weird that they didnât acknowledge this in the blog posts announcing AWS Transform.
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8 months ago
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The older I get, the more I look back fondly on my early days of computers. Today I got 2 almost pristine copies of Computer Shopper off eBay, and Iâm downright giddy tonight flipping through the pages. Letâs explore some together:
8 months ago
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#AWS
Wishlist for today - I want a CloudWatch Metric for AWS/Logs for Vended Logs. I can see total CW Logs in an account using IncomingBytes, but I want to see how much of that is Vended Logs now. Looks like the only way to get this data is to use Cost Explorer and look at *-VendedLog-Bytes
8 months ago
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I wrote another thing for Duckbill... this time focusing in on the recent change to CloudWatch Logs, and this one even has a Github repo to go along with it!
github.com/DuckbillGrou...
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8 months ago
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Rocky is tired of all this rain, but also itâs Sunday so might as well nap on a pillow.
8 months ago
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Holy cow⌠tiered pricing for CWLogs, as they reclassified them as vended logs!
aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
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AWS Lambda introduces tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch logs and additional logging destinations | Amazon Web Services
Effective logging is an important part of an observability strategy when building serverless applications using AWS Lambda. Lambda automatically captures and sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This...
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-lambda-introduces-tiered-pricing-for-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-and-additional-logging-destinations/
8 months ago
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I wrote a blog about RDS RI's today, go check it out! If you want to ask questions, feel free to stop by our office hours in 15 minutes.
duckbillgroup.com/officehours
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8 months ago
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Come join me this week as I host our FinOps office hours! I have written a lot of our AWS service analyzers, so stop by and pick my brain!
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8 months ago
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Eric Pullen
Corey Quinn
8 months ago
This goes about like you think it would: starts off with a Clippy joke, then rapidly descends from there.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassyâs 2024 Letter to Shareholdersâannotated
Hereâs a thing Iâve always wanted to do: take Andy Jassyâs annual shareholder letter and translate it into human.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-ceo-andy-jassys-2024-letter-to-shareholders-annotated/
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I think Iâll join Corey this week and see what all the hullabaloo is about!
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8 months ago
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Oh fun, a whole new type of AWS reservation! đĽ´
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8 months ago
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Is it just me, or are you also just walking around your house mumbling âwhat the actual fuck is going onâ at random times? No, just me⌠ok cool.
9 months ago
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Eric Pullen
Duckbill
9 months ago
New from
@quinnypig.com
: EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated. Sure, the writingâs been on the wall for RIs for a while nowâŚ
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EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated
Something strange started happening at re:Invent last year: new EC2 instances started launching without Reserved Instance support.
https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/ec2-reserved-instances-are-being-deprecated/
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Tutu just loves Rocky, and for once he didnât jump up when she came by for a sniff!
#bunny
#lionheadbunny
#labrador
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9 months ago
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Tutu sniffing on Rocky before having her dinner.
#bunny
#lionheadbunny
#labrador
#labradorretriever
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9 months ago
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Tutu doing some foraging for treats!
#bunny
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9 months ago
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Just Tutu and Rocky hanging out in the family room. Tutu is fascinated with Rocky, but unfortunately Rocky isnât much of a snuggler.
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9 months ago
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Testing a little video of Tutu our Lionhead bunny. She starts out eating some food from her foraging mat, then takes off for the camera and boops it.
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9 months ago
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Iâm planning on being there as well, so please donât make this another 1-1 with Corey! đ
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9 months ago
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Tutu came to visit me today in my office. First time she has made it this far down the hall, but I think she was missing Rocky. She usually thinks the hardwood is lava, so this is her being super brave!
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9 months ago
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I've been playing with this as Corey wrote it, and its pretty cool! I love the AI generated Alt-Text!
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9 months ago
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This is one of those âwowâ posts you see and think âhow cool is that!â
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9 months ago
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Uhhh, what the hell is this AWS? Seems like a lot to announce in such a short blog post:
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
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AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interaction - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interaction
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/03/next-generation-amazon-connect-ai-improves-customer-interaction/
10 months ago
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The battery in my iPhone 14 Pro Max needs service. Went to Apple Store and they said they have no batteryâs in stock, but if Iâd rather I could just upgrade to the 16. I couldnât think of a single reason to get a 16 over my current 1TB phone. đ¤ˇââď¸
10 months ago
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reposted by
Eric Pullen
Corey Quinn
10 months ago
Here at
@duckbillgroup.com
we wish our mascot Billie the Platypus a very happy 6th birthday and hope he won't burn the office down.
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Tutu doesnât want mom to pick her up, so she runs to see if Rocky can save her. đ
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10 months ago
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Got tired of cleaning off the back steps at my house, and picked up these
heattrak.com
mats to use. Wow, they work really well!
10 months ago
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If you purchase through AWS marketplace to help retire your EDP commitments, you should definitely read what Corey wrote!
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11 months ago
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I love when I get asked a FinOps question that leads me to writing some python code to figure out the answer. Todayâs question, âCan you help me model if my Kinesis streams would be cheaper on demand or as provisioned capacity?â
11 months ago
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I think my wife may be a bit obsessed with the bunny. It has a custom bed and pillow with her name on it and a teepee to relax in (so far, Tutu refuses to use them). đ
11 months ago
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My first blog post with
@duckbillgroup.com
is live! Feedback is welcomed.
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11 months ago
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We get a Corey sing-a-long this week!
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11 months ago
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Hey
@fordmotorsofficial.bsky.social
when are you going to move to a
ford.com
domain on bluesky? Makes it much easier to find you and letâs everyone verify that you really are Ford!
@mrlevine.bsky.social
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