When AWS says “we gotta patch” at some random, inconvenient time… that wears you down.' Sometimes the managed service isn’t managing the right things. Get all the details in our new episode!

The pipeline problem is real. @bscanlan.bsky.social warns we’re losing the paths that once created great systems engineers. If the cloud hides all the complexity, where will the next generation come from? 🎧 www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

"When ChatGPT came out in October 2022, we reoriented the entire company." - @bscanlan.bsky.social, Intercom. Now they're seeing customers ask MORE questions because they're getting fast, useful answers. 🎧 www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

Last Week In AWS: EKS on Raspberry Pi, But Please Don't Check the Pricing Page Have a listen: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-...

Plot twist: Intercom's on-call system uses VOLUNTEERS, not conscripts. @bscanlan.bsky.social explains how they compensate engineers for after-hours work instead of mandating it by team assignment. Result? People actually want to join the rotation. 🎧 to the podcast:

13 Aurora clusters to a sleek move onto PlanetScale. Intercom’s database journey wasn’t just a migration, it was a rethink. On the latest Screaming in the Cloud, @bscanlan.bsky.social (Senior Principal Engineer @ Intercom) joins Corey Quinn to talk about..

How do you sandbox AI agents safely? Find out on the latest Screaming in the Cloud. Listen in:

Last Week In AWS: AWS Proudly Promotes Its Superior Competitors Have a listen: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-...

🔍 “Show me how your company reviews code, I’ll show you its culture.” Harjot Gill joins Corey Quinn to unpack how AI is fixing rubber-stamp approvals & toxic nitpicking turning code review into a competitive advantage. Listen now 🎧

Why do code reviews feel like either rubber stamps or nitpicking marathons? 🤔 If you work in tech you will want to listen to this: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th, with Corey Quinn. Have a listen: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-...

CodeRabbit is 10x bigger than their next competitor and growing fast! Their CEO says the secret is making AI code review actually useful, not annoying. Listen to our newest podcast now. www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

CodeRabbit built the most-installed AI app on GitHub & GitLab and it reviews code like a human, but faster. Listen to our newest podcast now. www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

Hot take from the latest Screaming in the Cloud: AI coding assistants feel a lot like "model-driven architecture from 25 years ago," says @JonathanSchneider 🔥 Developers aren’t going anywhere. Listen in: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 22nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-...

Even the perfect tech stack today can be obsolete in six months. Jonathan Schneider (CEO Moderne) breaks down why software modernization is so tough. Spoiler: it’s not the tech, it’s the people. New Episode out today! www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

Datasette is quietly fueling some of the most fascinating data stories out there. 🎧 Want to hear how it all comes together? Listen to all the details here: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 18th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-...

Stop panicking. Start learning. AI amplifies expertise, it doesn't replace it. Latest episode drops this insight and more: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

Pro AI tips from Simon Willison: Stop treating AI like magic. Start treating it like a very capable intern. Latest episode drops this insight and more: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

Is blogging back? Simon tells Corey why his 22-year-old blog gets him invited to Silicon Valley dinners and cited in the New York Times. Get all the funny details in our latest interview: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 11th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-...

Hot take: The future isn't about AI doing everything. It's about humans doing more. Hear more about this now:https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/ai-s-security-crisis-why-your-assistant-might-betray-you/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 4th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-...

“This whole thing feels insane.” Corey Quinn and Ed Zitron expose the uncomfortable truth behind generative AI hype, fake revenue, and why asking questions gets you labeled the villain. 🔥 You need to hear this: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 28th, 2025, with Corey Quinn.

If OpenAI were a public company, its finances would terrify you. $9B spend. $5B loss. Zero product-market fit. But hey, trust the dream. Listen now: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

Imagine investing $10B in a company you believe will fail… That’s what Microsoft reportedly did with OpenAI. Because when you host all their infrastructure and own their IP… Why not hedge your bet and own the outcome? It’s a wild conversion you need to hear! www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

🚨 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/

Last Week In AWS: A Fantastic Service Gets Better, Somehow Have a listen:https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/a-fantastic-service-gets-better-somehow/

Some companies are still running on mainframes older than their CTOs. Jeremy Edberg's team at DBOS is helping extract decades-old data into modern systems, one ancient database at a time. 🎧 Tune into this episode of Screaming in the Cloud: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

Last Week In AWS: Sovereign Cloud, Now With Slightly More Pretend Sovereignty Have a listen: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-...

HackerNews commenters claiming they could cut Figma's costs by 30%+ is peak armchair architecture. I'm certain your Minecraft server experience uniquely qualifies you to optimize infrastructure for 95% of Fortune 500 companies.

Twitter: "Figma only makes $220M in revenue!" Reality: $749M Twitter: "They're doomed!" Reality: 91% gross margins Even Twitter's community notes had to step in, which is like being fact-checked by a YouTube comment section.

"They're gonna blow through their commitment in record time if they spin up another Managed NAT Gateway" Sometimes I crack myself up.

CEO of DBOS, Jeremy Edberg calls out the distributed systems obsession that's making everyone's life harder for no reason. 🎧 Listen to find out why: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

My favorite part of FigmaGate is everyone doing the math wrong. That $550M commitment? It's POST-discount, friends. And it ramps up over 5 years - they're not spending $110M annually right now. But hey, why let facts get in the way of a good panic?

The internet discovered Figma spends $300k/day on AWS and immediately lost its collective mind. Meanwhile, those of us who look at AWS bills for a living are like "...and?" 12% of revenue on cloud for a real-time collaborative platform? That's boringly normal.

What if your app could never really break? @jedberg, the mastermind behind Reddit and Netflix's scale, leads a team that built self-checkpointing software that saves itself to a database and basically becomes immortal. 🎧 Tune into Screaming in the Cloud: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

AWS has 200+ services and somehow they all found a way onto your bill. Office hours Thursdays 10-10:30am PDT. We'll explain which ones are actually necessary (spoiler: fewer than you think). Find out more:

Startups break things. Enterprises hesitate. Who wins with AI? Wayne Segar dives into the real reason large companies struggle to move fast with GenAI, and how they can finally catch up. 🎧 Tune in:

Last Week In AWS: I'll Bring the Snark, AWS Brings the Chaos, You Bring Yourself to the Bar Have a listen: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-...

The best-kept secret? @Dynatrace has been quietly doing machine learning for 10 years while everyone else just discovered ChatGPT. Sometimes the loudest companies aren't the smartest ones. 🎧 Tune in:

"How much will Aurora DSQL cost?" "Yes." "That's not an answer." "Welcome to 2025 AWS pricing." The worst part? Genuinely can't think of a better model that would work. But this one's going to scare off customers faster than you can say "unpredictable OpEx."

Aurora DSQL pricing dimensions: Read DPUs ✓ Write DPUs ✓ Compute DPUs ¯_(ツ)_/¯ When your pricing is so complex that running identical workloads produces different costs, you haven't built a pricing model – you've built a slot machine.

Fun fact: An AWS engineer’s personal blog explains Aurora DSQL better than all the official docs. Not-so-fun fact: Following his exact tutorial yields different costs—because the pricing model apparently includes a randomness factor.

The only thing more impressive than Aurora DSQL's technology is how thoroughly its pricing model defeats any attempt at cost forecasting. It's like AWS looked at their already confusing Aurora I/O charges and said "hold my beer, we can make this MUCH worse."

“Can we make something that works?” Corey Quinn and Wayne Segar talk about how companies are more interested in implementing an effective AI solution than the costs associated with scaling and processing it. 🎧 Listen here:

AWS office hours: where we explain why your bill looks like someone fed a calculator LSD. Thursdays 10-10:30am PDT. Free, because we're not monsters. FinOps and negotiations covered. Save your sanity:

AWS Aurora team: “We built this amazing serverless database!” Also AWS Aurora team: “Pricing? Uh… throws darts at a board… good enough!” Result: Aurora DSQL, where identical workloads cost different amounts—because quantum mechanics now applies to cloud billing. www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/aurora-...