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...

If you are at #reinvent2025, stop by and say hi! We are in booth #1217 right next to Splunk.

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

Headed to #AWSreInvent, and so far a smooth @Southwest.com flight. Can’t 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!

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!

Holy cow it’s been 9 years since @awscloud.bsky.social us-east-2 came into existence. I still believe it should have been named us-central-1

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

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!

Stop by and ask us some questions!

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!

This is perfection. HBD to my favorite current boss @quinnypig.com

Ever since I started working at @duckbillgroup.com, I've had a new appreciation anytime I see a cute baby platypus.

Ruh-roh 😳

🚨 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/

“$110M a year on AWS? I could do it for half!” Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates. Sit down. www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...

Tutu finally got to get on Rocky’s body! 🥹 it won’t be long and they will be napping in the floor together. #bunny #labrador

Finally!

So weird that they didn’t acknowledge this in the blog posts announcing AWS Transform.

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 I’m downright giddy tonight flipping through the pages. Let’s explore some together:

#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

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...

Rocky is tired of all this rain, but also it’s Sunday so might as well nap on a pillow.

Holy cow… tiered pricing for CWLogs, as they reclassified them as vended logs! aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

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

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!

This goes about like you think it would: starts off with a Clippy joke, then rapidly descends from there. www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...

I think I’ll join Corey this week and see what all the hullabaloo is about!

Oh fun, a whole new type of AWS reservation! 🥴

Is it just me, or are you also just walking around your house mumbling “what the actual fuck is going on” at random times? No, just me… ok cool.

New from @quinnypig.com: EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated. Sure, the writing’s been on the wall for RIs for a while now…

Tutu just loves Rocky, and for once he didn’t jump up when she came by for a sniff! #bunny #lionheadbunny #labrador

Tutu sniffing on Rocky before having her dinner. #bunny #lionheadbunny #labrador #labradorretriever

Tutu doing some foraging for treats! #bunny

Just Tutu and Rocky hanging out in the family room. Tutu is fascinated with Rocky, but unfortunately Rocky isn’t much of a snuggler.

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.

I’m planning on being there as well, so please don’t make this another 1-1 with Corey! 😂

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!

I've been playing with this as Corey wrote it, and its pretty cool! I love the AI generated Alt-Text!

This is one of those “wow” posts you see and think “how cool is that!”

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...

The battery in my iPhone 14 Pro Max needs service. Went to Apple Store and they said they have no battery’s in stock, but if I’d rather I could just upgrade to the 16. I couldn’t think of a single reason to get a 16 over my current 1TB phone. 🤷‍♂️

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.

Tutu doesn’t want mom to pick her up, so she runs to see if Rocky can save her. 😂

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!

If you purchase through AWS marketplace to help retire your EDP commitments, you should definitely read what Corey wrote!

I love when I get asked a FinOps question that leads me to writing some python code to figure out the answer. Today’s question, “Can you help me model if my Kinesis streams would be cheaper on demand or as provisioned capacity?”

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). 😂

My first blog post with @duckbillgroup.com is live! Feedback is welcomed.

We get a Corey sing-a-long this week!

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 let’s everyone verify that you really are Ford! @mrlevine.bsky.social