Podcast appearances and mentions of corey quinn

Julian Mack is a transracial adoptee in reunion/contact with his family of origin. He is a Black American music artist living in Atlanta. Julian continues to move through questions of identity and societal issues with a thoughtful, grey-lens perspective.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 22, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Automate java performance troubleshooting with AI-Powered thread dump analysis on Amazon ECS and EKSAmazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructureOptimize WordPress performance on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx for OpenZFSAWS reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or LessAWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricingKey Commitment Issues in S3 Encryption ClientsCoursera and AWS survey reveals how technology leaders navigate cloud and AI transformationAutomated extraction of compressed files on Amazon S3 using AWS Batch and Amazon ECSCryptomining campaign targeting Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS

Sonia Morgan is a late discovery adoptee born in Pennsylvania. She searched for her biological family and is currently appreciating reunion/contact with them.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 15th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference FrameworkNow generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instancesAmazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocolsBuilding national foundation modelsNew report: Cloud “fundamental” for European national security and defenseAI Increased Productivity? Consider Hiring More Developers!IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy expertise to builders and AI coding assistantsAWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networkingExploring Optimize CPU feature on Amazon RDS for SQL ServerPrometheus MCP Server: AI-Driven Monitoring Intelligence for AWS Users

Corey Quinn reconnects with Keith Townsend, founder of The CTO Advisor, for a candid conversation about the massive gap between AI hype and enterprise reality. Keith shares why a biopharma company gave Microsoft Copilot a hard no, and why AI has genuinely 10x'd his personal productivity while Fortune 500 companies treat it like radioactive material. From building apps with Cursor to watching enterprises freeze in fear of being the next AI disaster in the news, Keith and Corey dig into why the tools transforming solo founders and small teams are dead on arrival in the enterprise, and what it'll actually take to bridge that gap.About Keith TownsendKeith Townsend is an enterprise technologist and founder of The Advisor Bench LLC, where he helps major IT vendors refine their go-to-market strategies through practitioner-driven insights from CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise architects. Known as “The CTO Advisor,” Keith blends deep expertise in IT infrastructure, AI, and cloud with a talent for translating complex technology into clear business strategy.With more than 20 years of experience, including roles as a systems engineer, enterprise architect, and PwC consultant, Keith has advised clients such as HPE, Google Cloud, Adobe, Intel, and AWS. His content series, 100 Days of AI and CloudEveryday.dev, provide practical, plainspoken guidance for IT leaders. A frequent speaker at VMware Explore, Interop, and Tech Field Day, Keith is a trusted voice on cloud and infrastructure transformation.Show Highlights(01:25) Life After the Futurum Group Acquisition(03:56) Building Apps You're Not Qualified to Build with Cursor(05:45)Creating an AI-Powered RSS Reader(09:01) Why AI is Great at Language But Not Intelligence(11:39) Are You Looking for Advice or Just Validation?(13:49) Why Startups Can Risk AI Disasters and AWS Can't(17:28) You Can't Outsource Responsibility(19:52) Business Users Are Scared of AI Too(23:00) LinkedIn's AI Writing Tool Misses the Point(26:42) Private AI is Starting to Look Appealing(29:00) Never Going Back to Pre-AI Development(34:27) AI for Jobs You'd Never Hire Someone to Do(39:09) Where to Find Keith and Closing ThoughtsLinksThe CTO Advisor:  https://thectoadvisor.comSponsor: https://www.sumologic.com/solutions/dojo-aihttps://wiz.io/crying-out-cloud

As similar AI strategies and non-exclusive partnerships proliferate, are there still reasons to choose Azure over AWS (or vice versa)? Duckbill's Corey Quinn joins Directions' Wes Miller and Mary Jo Foley to debate the topic.

Anna Bryant is a transracial adoptee from Iowa. She grew up in a multiracial household with White parents and international adoptee sisters from South Korea. She has been in reunion with her family of origin for 8 years which has brought both joys and heartbreaks. She is currently working on her memoir Cultural Fraud which explores her reunion journey and her search for Black identity. She currently resides in the Black Mecca of Atlanta with her husband and loves to travel, spend time with friends, and occasionally review new snacks.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibilityAWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloudIntroducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernizationAmazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and complianceAmazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 are now generally availableIntroducing AWS AI FactoriesIntroducing AWS DevOps Agent (preview), frontier agent for operational excellenceAmazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 TablesBuild multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functionsAmazon S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TBAmazon S3 Tables now offer the Intelligent-Tiering storage classChina-nexus cyber threat groups rapidly exploit React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182)Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases

In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Rubrik's GM of AI, Dev Rishi, to unpack the real story behind enterprise AI adoption, the rise of agentic systems, and why most organizations are still stuck in read-only mode. Dev breaks down how Rubrik's Agent Rewind brings safety, observability, and resilience to AI-driven actions, solving the “Oh no, the agent deleted production data” problem before it happens. From deep learning's evolution to the massive gap between consumer AI enthusiasm and enterprise risk posture, this conversation is a candid, insightful look at the AI future Global 2000 companies are racing toward… or cautiously tiptoeing into.Show Highlights(00:25) Understanding Rubrik and Agent Rewind(00:50) Challenges in AI and Disaster Recovery(01:27) Guest Introduction: Dev Rishi from Rubrik(01:44) The Evolution of AI in Enterprises(02:33) Starting an AI Company: The Backstory(05:10) Generative AI and Its Impact(07:15) Enterprise AI Trends and Challenges(08:56) The Future of Agentic AI(18:03) AI in Customer Support(22:03) Rubrik's Acquisition and AI Strategy(29:30) Launching Rubrik Agent Cloud(31:26) Lessons from Starting a Machine Learning Company(35:25) Conclusion and Contact InformationSponsor:Rubrik: https://www.rubrik.com/sitc

Koko is a same-race Black adoptee with 15 years of experience in community behavioral health. She holds a master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Professional Clinical Counselor. A mother and a healer, Koko brings a trauma-informed, liberation-focused lens to her work with individuals and communities impacted by adoption. Her insights have made her a frequent guest on podcasts, and she has spoken at major gatherings, including the BIPOC Adoptee Conference.She is the founder and CEO of BADAN, the Black African Diaspora Adoptee Network—a global community committed to connection, care, and collective truth-telling for Black adoptees across the diaspora. Through community organizing, mental health advocacy, and storytelling. She creates space for Black adoptees to name grief, reclaim identity, and move toward embodied belonging. Her work centers the lived experiences of same-race adoptees while pushing for accountability and change within adoption and mental health systems. As stated, she can be found spilling adoption truths on Instagram @theblackadoptea. https://www.instagram.com/badancommunity/References: https://untanglingourroots.org/schedule/Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of December 1st, with Corey Quinn. Links:Protect sensitive data with dynamic data masking for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQLAmazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS authenticationAmazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity ReservationsIntroducing guidelines for network scanningPractical implementation considerations to close the AI value gapEverything you don't need to know about Amazon Aurora DSQL: Part 4 – DSQL componentsSimplify data integration using zero-ETL from self-managed databases to Amazon RedshiftAutomatic quota management is now AWS Service Quotas adds support for automatic quota managementAnnouncing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated Recovery for managing public DNS recordsAnnouncing Unused NAT Gateway Recommendations in AWS Compute OptimizerAmazon EKS introduces Provisioned Control PlaneAWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways

Garrett Lee is a same race domestic adoptee residing in Orlando, FL. He is in reunion with DNA family members and the journey continues putting the pieces together about his relinquishment/adoption story.Website: https://www.oldskoolcakes.com/Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 24th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS MarketplaceNetwork Load Balancers now support Weighted Target GroupsAWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availabilityAWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secretsAccelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEsAWS Cost Optimization Hub introduces Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiencyAWS Lambda announces new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applicationsIntroducing 18-Month Forecasting and Explainable AI Insights in AWS Cost ExplorerSimplified developer access to AWS with ‘aws loginAmazon DynamoDB now supports multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexesSimplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity FederationImprove API discoverability with the new Amazon API Gateway PortalAWS Step Functions enhances Local Testing with TestState APIAmazon CloudFront announces 3 new CloudFront Functions capabilitiesRecycle Bin adds support for Amazon EBS VolumesAnnouncing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0AWS Lambda adds support for RustIntroducing Amazon MWAA ServerlessIntroducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overagesNew Amazon Bedrock service tiers help you match AI workload performance with costAmazon EC2 P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs are now availableAmazon ECR introduces archive storage class for rarely accessed container imagesNew AWS Billing Transfer for centrally managing AWS billing and costs across multiple organizations

Janeen Jackson is an adoptee, children's book author, and powerful advocate for adult adoptees—especially those who discover the truth about their adoption later in life. Through her blog Mixed Up Diary and her book Hello, Sweet Baby!, Janeen creates space for honest conversations about identity, race, and healing. Her mission is to provide comfort and understanding to others facing similar revelations and to help families navigate the emotional complexities of adoption with empathy and truth.In 2017, Janeen took a DNA test out of curiosity. What followed was a life-altering discovery: she was adopted, had been in foster care, and was biracial. She uncovered this truth in her 40s, a revelation that completely redefined her sense of self and understanding of her past. This experience launched her into a journey of emotional excavation, family redefinition, and self-empowerment. Janeen's late discovery of her adoption brought with it many emotional and psychological challenges, including grief, anger, confusion, and a profound identity crisis. She wrestled with issues of trust, colorism, belonging, and depression. Learning how to set healthy boundaries, confront painful family secrets, and process her biracial identity has been central to her personal transformation.Websites: https://mixedupdiary.com/ https://janeenjackson.com/Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 17th, with Corey Quinn.Links:Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resourcesAWS Lambda networking over IPv6AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accountsAmazon Braket Notebook Environments Now Support CUDA-Q NativelyAmazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing for 180 times faster operation performanceAmazon Keyspaces now supports logged batches for atomic, multi-statement operationsAmazon CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alertingAmazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged BatchesAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service gets independent affirmation of its zero operator access designAWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) launches new test scenarios for partial failuresAWS CloudFormation Hooks adds granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summaryIntroducing structured output for Custom Model Import in Amazon Bedrock

André Arko, CEO of Spinel Cooperative and longtime Bundler maintainer, joins Corey Quinn to introduce RV, a new Ruby tool that installs Ruby in one second instead of 10-40 minutes by using precompiled binaries. Inspired by Python's UV, RV aims to simplify Ruby dependency management without the complexity of older tools like RVM and rbenv. They talk about why Ruby isn't actually dead, Apple's problem with shipping a five-year-old end-of-life Ruby in macOS, and the challenges of writing dependency managers in the language they manage. André also shares how he transitioned from a struggling nonprofit model to a cooperative that charges companies for expertise, proving that open source maintainers can build sustainable businesses without relying on donations.Show Highlights:(03:50) Introducing RV(05:12) The RVM vs rbenv Wars and Why They All Break Bundler(09:00) Why Your Mac Still Shows Ruby 3.0.0 in Your Prompt(11:00) The Chef vs Puppet Philosophy Divide(16:30) Installing Ruby in One Second vs 40 Minutes(18:13) Apple's Ancient System Ruby Problem(22:20) RV's Incremental Approach (24:23) Is Ruby Dead? (28:44) Why RV Is Written in Rust, Not Ruby(31:10) The Bundler Problem(32:15) The Financial Reality(38:00) Spinel's Plans to Make Money(39:23) How to Stay In Contact with AndréLinks:André Arko: https://arko.netBlue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/indirect.ioSpinel Cooperative: https://spinel.coopSponsor: Duckbill: https://www.duckbillhq.com/

Eric Shaw in Southern California is an educator (Elementary School PE and High School basketball coach), adopted at birth by same race and adopted siblings with Koko, @TheBlackAdoptea on IG.Resource: https://adoptionmosaic.com/adoptee-beaconMusic by Corey Quinn

A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won't tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity for AWS ServicesAWS announces new partnership to power OpenAI's AI workloadsPrompt engineering with PartyRock: A guide for educators New whitepaper available – AI for Security and Security for AI: Navigating Opportunities and ChallengesFrom Business Logic to Working Code: How AWS Kiro Changes Who Can BuildCVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881 - runc container issues Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds AI-powered Synthetics debuggingInside Amazon Connect: The evolution of a disruptorHow Indeed scaled Governance across 1,000+ AWS accounts with AWS Trusted Advisor Improper authentication token handling in the Amazon WorkSpaces client for LinuxHow Omnissa saved millions by migrating to Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2The Swift AWS Lambda Runtime moves to AWSLabsCVE-2025-12815 - RES web portal may display preview of Virtual Desktops that the user shouldn't have access to

A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won't tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests.

A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won't tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests.

Kevin Hodge-Niblack Barnett Sr. is a retired Army veteran and a product of the foster care/adoption system. He is the author of two books: Living My Shadows: Dreams Do Come True and Shadows of Emotion: Life After the Dream, which outline his experiences as an adoptee and person who lived in foster care.Website: https://www.livingmyshadows.org/Resources: https://www.adoptionknowledge.org/registration-2025.htmlMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 3rd, with Corey Quinn. Links:Beyond pilots: A proven framework for scaling AI to productionNew Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performanceProcessing Amazon S3 objects at scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map S3 prefixWhat's the difference between AWS ParallelCluster and AWS Parallel Computing Service?France Télévisions prepared for 2024 Olympic Games with AWS Countdown PremiumAmazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports 10x larger record sizesAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces upgraded query planner that can run queries up to 10x fasterAnnouncing AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon End-of-Support and OpenTelemetry MigrationAmazon S3 adds conditional write functionality to copy operationsIntroducing the Capacity Reservation Topology API for AI, ML, and HPC instance typesHow to deploy a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance across three Availability Zones using Storage Spaces Direct Reduce CAPTCHAs for AI agents browsing the web with Web Bot Auth (Preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore BrowserUsing Kubernetes Labels to Split and Track Application Costs on Amazon EKSIntroducing AWS Lambda event source mapping tools in the AWS Serverless MCP Server Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS supports Kubernetes labels

When attackers are smart enough to hit your backups, recovery becomes your best defense. Rubrik's Chief Product Officer, Anneka Gupta, joins host Corey Quinn to break down what true cyber resilience looks like in today's multi-cloud world. From AI-driven recovery to surviving ransomware with your data (and reputation) intact, this episode covers what it really takes to bounce back when everything goes sideways.Show Highlights(00:00) Introduction to Ransomware and Backups(00:25) Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud(00:32) Introducing Rubrik and Annika Gupta(01:26) What Does Rubrik Do?(02:18) Evolution of Backup and Recovery(03:37) Challenges in Cyber Recovery(05:33) Rubrik's Approach to Cyber Resilience(08:44) Importance of Cyber Recovery Simulations(09:40) Security vs. Operational Recovery(11:28) Assume Breach: A New Security Paradigm(14:29) Multi-Cloud Complexities and Security(27:45) Hybrid Cloud and Cyber Resilience(29:25) AI in Cyber Resilience(33:09) Conclusion and Contact InformationAbout Anneka GuptaAnneka Gupta is a senior executive leader with a proven track record of scaling successful B2B SaaS businesses from the ground up. She's led across product, tech, go-to-market, and operations, always with a customer-first mindset. Known for turning complex challenges into big wins, Anneka brings energy, innovation, and real-world results to every team she leads.She's been recognized as one of San Francisco Business Times' Most Influential Women in Business and 40 Under 40, as well as a Rising Star by AdExchanger and Marketing EDGE. Oh, and AdAge once named her one of the Top 10 Digital Marketing Innovators.Linksrubrik.com/sitchttps://www.linkedin.com/in/annekagupta/Sponsor: Rubrik 

Jasmin, a New York adoptee, host of the Once an Orphan podcast kept the story of her adoption to herself until she was in her 30's. Today, she'll talk about why the silence for so long and what finally brought about the change. https://www.youtube.com/@OnceanOrphanhttps://www.blackadopteesmeetup.org/Recommended Resource: https://events.adoptionmosaic.com/launch-landMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 27th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Streamline in-place application upgrades with Amazon VPC LatticeBuild a proactive AI cost management system for Amazon Bedrock – Part 2 -Overview and best practices of multithreaded replication in Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora MySQL AWS announces Nitro Enclaves are now available in all AWS RegionsAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports bundled multi-check canaries Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (London) RegionAmazon Connect now supports automated follow-up evaluations triggered by initial evaluation resultsHow the Wildlife Conservation Society uses AWS to accelerate coral reef monitoring worldwideAmazon MQ is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region Amazon CloudWatch introduces interactive incident reportingAWS Secret-West Region is now availableCharting the life of an Amazon CloudFront request

Katie is an adoptee who has always known she was adopted. Abuse and neglect by adoptive parents growing up led her to feeling unloved or unwanted by them. As a younger person, Katie felt so broken and joined Al-Anon and (ACA) Adult Children of Alcoholics for healing. She still felt like something was missing in her recovery. A friend gave Katie the book, The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier, and she then sought out podcasts about adoptees which all proved to be great resources.Katie never had the desire to look for her birth parents, but an acquaintance insisted, and found maternal and paternal birth parents within days in 1996. She has met both birth families and have different relationships with them today.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Location Service Introduces New Map Styling Features for Enhanced CustomizationAWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region AWS SAM CLI adds Finch support, expanding local development tool options for serverless applicationsSimplified model access in Amazon BedrockAmazon EC2 now supports CPU options optimization for license-included instancesIntroducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumesOptimizing document AI and structured outputs by fine-tuning Amazon Nova Models and on-demand inferenceIntroducing URL and host header rewrite with AWS Application Load BalancersNew Amazon EKS Auto Mode features for enhanced security, network control, and performanceMonitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage from a single interface with Amazon EC2 Capacity ManagerPerformance optimization strategies for MySQL on Amazon RDSAWS re:Invent 2025: Reimagining customer experience with Amazon AWS Deprecates Two Dozen Services (Most of Which You've Never Heard Of)A FinOps Guide to Comparing Containers and Serverless Functions for ComputeAnnouncing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache

Jesse shares lessons on making the most of the tech sales career opportunity. SPONSORS:ChatAE (AI Account Planning): https://www.chatae.ai/?utm_source=salesplayers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fall2025_partnershipEPISODE LINKS: • 20 Questions Download: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ko2yqyLeZ-GdVCDaiROomtZrvvNw50Y3/edit • Schedule 1:1 Coaching Consult: https://calendly.com/jessewoodbury/1-1-coaching-overviewCONNECT WITH JESSE: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessewoodbury/HELP GROW SP: • Join Sales Players Slack Community: https://www.launchpass.com/saas_sales_players/free • Get a weekly email from SP: https://www.salesplayers.co/ • Subscribe! • Leave a rating, write a review, and share • Check out the above sponsors, it's the best way to support the showGUEST HIGHLIGHTS:Morgan J. Ingram, Chris Orlob, Ian Koniak, Jeb Blount, Brandon Fluharty, Scott Leese, Sarah Brazier, Jamal Reimer, Jen Allen-Knuth, Andy Paul, Collin Mitchell, Tim Zielinski, Christian Banach, Rajiv 'RajNATION' Nathan, Belal Batrawy, Christine Rogers, Chris Beall, Patrick Baynes, Jeroen Corthout, Nate Nasralla, Gabe Lullo, Vince Beese, Brandon Bornancin, Girish Redekar, Guillaume Moubeche, Lloyed Lobo, Corey Quinn, Danny Delvecchio, Tom Slocum, Todd Busler, Richard Harris, Krysten Conner, Dan Goodman, Kris Rudeegraap, Rachit Kataria© Sales Players, LLC

Deana Solis, 2022 FinOps Foundation Evangelist of the Year, joins Corey Quinn to discuss her winding career path from electrical engineering to healthcare IT to FinOps. She shares why certifications are "largely performative," warns that AI can turn your AWS bill into "a telephone number," and explains why NAT Gateway costs hit everyone from hobbyists to enterprises. The episode covers cloud repatriation conspiracy theories, translating between engineering and finance teams, and why good FinOps work is really just getting humans in a room to talk.Show Highlights: (02:36) FinOps Foundation (03:15) FinOps as Marriage Counseling Between Engineering and Finance(06:00) Deana's Journey From Electrical Engineering to FinOps(12:41) The Performative Nature of Certifications(16:22) AI as Both a Threat and Tool in FinOps(20:41) Why AI Is Flooding the Job Market with Noise(25:09) Why FinOps Is Never Boring Despite Sounding Like It(29:10) The NAT Gateway Problem(33:09) The Generational Divide in Cloud Platform Preferences(37:23) Stay In Contact With Deana SolisAbout Deana Solis: Deana Solis is a senior FinOps engineer with more than 20 years of infrastructure management experience. Recognized as the FinOps Evangelist of the Year by the FinOps Foundation in 2022, she has become a leading voice in driving cloud financial accountability and culture.Beyond her technical expertise, Deana is passionate about humanizing technology. She serves as a FinOps Foundation ambassador and mentor, using her voice to elevate Women in FinOps and underrepresented folks in technology.Her unique journey, from electrical engineering to liberal studies to FinOps, embodies both analytical rigor and emotional intelligence. Deana isn't just shaping the way organizations think about cloud costs; she's helping reshape the culture of technology itself.Sponsor: https://www.wiz.io/

Jennifer Hiltebeitel (HILL-ta-bite-el) is a returning guest.Jennifer is an adopted person on a lifelong healing journey. As an Enneagram Coach, she loves talking with other adoptees about how this tool for growth builds understanding and compassion for our whole selves. She believes healing happens in community and through the telling of our stories. You can connect with Jennifer on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/throughyourlensenneagram/, through email: jhiltebeitel@outlook.com or set up a free 30-minute Enneagram Coaching consultation with her at https://calendly.com/jhiltebeitelMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 13th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Introducing AWS Pricing Capabilities in Amazon Q Developer: Ask Questions, Get Instant Cost InsightsAmazon Location Service Updates for Vietnam's New Administrative BoundariesPart 6: Effective sunset of the legacy data platform in BBVA: the migration methodology Amazon Q Developer and Kiro – Prompt Injection Issues in Kiro and Q IDE plugins Amazon DynamoDB now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)AWS ranks #1 in Forecasting and Estimation Use Case in Gartner Critical Capabilities for Cloud Financial Management Tools report Introducing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic AI-powered workspaceUnlock real-time advertising insights with Amazon Marketing Stream and AWSIMDS impersonationReduce Docker image build time on AWS CodeBuild using Amazon ECR as a remote cacheUnderstanding Amazon Chime SDK costs in AWS Cost ExplorerAWS Introduces self-service invoice correction featureBridging data silos: cross-bounded context querying with Vanguard's Operational Read-only Data Store (ORDS) using Amazon Redshift Beyond Bootstrap: Bootstrapless CDK Deployments at GoDaddyAmazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.34Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2023Your Ultimate Guide to Cloud Financial Management sessions at re:Invent 2025: Know Before You Go Automatic quota management is now generally available for AWS Service Quotas CVE-2025-11462 AWS ClientVPN macOS Client Local Privilege EscalationCVE-2025-11573 - Denial of Service issue in Amazon.IonDotnet

In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with Chris Madden, co-founder of Matchnode, to unpack the journey from being a generalist agency juggling sports teams, banks, and restaurants to becoming a specialized leader in digital health marketing. Chris shares how their team went from struggling with unpredictable referrals to scaling consistently in one of the fastest-growing industries. He opens up about the turning points, the doubts, and the breakthroughs that led to their best year ever. If you've ever wondered whether narrowing your focus is worth it, this conversation will give you both the strategic framework and the emotional reassurance you need. What You'll Learn in This Episode

Original air date: October 25, 2022During times in this episode, there is sensitive content that may be traumatizing to some audiences. Listener discretion advised.Katie is an adoptee who has always known she was adopted. Abuse and neglect by adoptive parents growing up led her to feeling unloved or unwanted by them. As a younger person, Katie felt so broken and joined Al-Anon and (ACA) Adult Children of Alcoholics for healing. She still felt like something was missing in her recovery. A friend gave Katie the book, The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier, and she then sought out podcasts about adoptees which all proved to be great resources.Katie never had the desire to look for her birth parents, but an acquaintance insisted, and found maternal and paternal birth parents within days in 1996. She has met both birth families and have different relationships with them today.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 6th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Deploying AI models for inference with AWS Lambda using zip packagingAnnouncing Amazon ECS Managed Instances Amazon EBS increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes Accelerating AWS Infrastructure Deployment: A Practical Guide to Console-to-Code AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Google Build a dynamic workflow orchestration engine with Amazon DynamoDB and AWS LambdaAWS Transfer Family adds support for additional IAM condition keys AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 99 new Amazon EC2 instance types

Debbie Nahid is a transracial intercountry adoptee born in 1968 in the UK. She was raised in foster care in a white English community and was adopted as a teenager by her foster mother. It was at this time that she also discovered the truth about her parents and heritage. Debbie has spent her life searching for birth relatives and cultural connections and is the founder of Transracial Adult Adoptee Network (TAAN), a community of peers. She has created and facilitates two in-person support groups for adult adoptees in London and is also the co-founder of the Adult Adoptee Movement UK.Debbie uses her lived experience to help others heal and inform of the dislocation, alienation and isolation that occurs from being raised in a white foster or adoptive home without a biological identity or same race role model. Paul Sunderland Talks to Adoptees About HealingFrom Relinquishment Trauma and Complex PPTSD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8njTJVfsVAMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 29th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:You can now preview Amazon S3 Tables in the S3 consoleAWS Organizations supports full IAM policy language for service control policies (SCPs)Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)A guide to reducing waste and improving efficiency with AWSAmazon RDS announces cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copyAWS announces EC2 instance attestationHumane World for Animals uses AWS to scale global animal welfare programs deprecating its SOAP APIPrompt Library | AWS StartupsAWS named as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants

In this episode, Corey Quinn delivers a simple truth that every agency owner needs to hear: being a generalist doesn't keep you safe; it keeps you invisible. If you've been trying to serve everyone with everything, you're actually holding your agency back. The path to authority, recognition, and true scalability lies in specialization. What You'll Learn Why generalist agencies struggle to grow—and why you might be stuck there. How saying no is the key to building authority in your space. The difference between survival and scaling when it comes to agency strategy. The hidden danger of never choosing a niche. Resources & Links

Linda Pevac (aka Emma Stevens) is a returning guest.Linda is a U.S. domestic adoptee from birth and has survived layers of trauma that have put her on multiple journeys. She developed the inner strength and courage to surmount the many struggles she faced. Her traumas were born from being an adoptee who struggled with being forced to wear an impossible mask of playing the part of the “good adopted child.” Because being relinquished and adopted has colored her life, it's Linda's desire to be part of the movement that is dedicated to helping bring forth change to the way our world views the needs and support of adopted individuals. She believes strongly in adoptees finding their voice and discovering their truth to have a solid sense of self and to reclaim their identities. Through telling her story, Linda is dedicated to help redefine the narrative of adoption to include the entire complex truth.This memoir is Linda Pavac (aka Emma Stevens') third book. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism and has completed Master's level course work in psychology, specializing in Marriage, Family, and Child counseling. She has two adult children and two cat children who she adores.https://emmastevenswriter.com/https://www.adopteetherapy.com/Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 22nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Qwen models are now available in Amazon BedrockAWS Budgets now supports custom time periodsAmazon CloudWatch launches Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log CentralizationAmazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose bucketsNew fault action in AWS FIS to inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumesAWS has once again announced a change (in this case, changing the email address from which invoices show up), only to walk it back prior to implementation.Use Raspberry Pi 5 as Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes for edge workloadsMalware Protection for S3 Expands File Size and Archive Scanning LimitsAWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container ManagementMigrate from Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock

Lessons on (personal) brand building from 5 years of hosting this podcast. SPONSORS:ChatAE: https://www.chatae.ai/EPISODE LINKS: • 20 Questions Download: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ko2yqyLeZ-GdVCDaiROomtZrvvNw50Y3/edit • Schedule 1:1 Coaching Consult: https://calendly.com/jessewoodbury/1-1-coaching-overviewCONNECT WITH JESSE: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessewoodbury/HELP GROW SP: • Join Sales Players Slack Community: https://www.launchpass.com/saas_sales_players/free • Get a weekly email from SP: https://www.salesplayers.co/ • Subscribe! • Leave a rating, write a review, and share • Check out the above sponsors, it's the best way to support the showGUEST HIGHLIGHTS:Morgan J. Ingram, Chris Orlob, Ian Koniak, Jeb Blount, Brandon Fluharty, Scott Leese, Sarah Brazier, Jamal Reimer, Jen Allen-Knuth, Andy Paul, Collin Mitchell, Tim Zielinski, Christian Banach, Rajiv 'RajNATION' Nathan, Belal Batrawy, Christine Rogers, Chris Beall, Patrick Baynes, Jeroen Corthout, Nate Nasralla, Gabe Lullo, Vince Beese, Brandon Bornancin, Girish Redekar, Guillaume Moubeche, Lloyed Lobo, Corey Quinn, Danny Delvecchio, Tom Slocum, Todd Busler, Richard Harris, Krysten Conner, Dan Goodman, Kris Rudeegraap, Rachit Kataria© Sales Players, LLC

Brian Scanlan, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom, the company building Fin.ai, joins Corey Quinn on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss Intercom's move from AWS Aurora to PlanetScale's managed Vitess after years of scaling challenges with their Ruby on Rails monolith. He explains how 13 Aurora clusters created operational pain and why PlanetScale's white-glove, partnership-driven model won out over Amazon's building-block approach.The discussion also covers Intercom's volunteer-based on-call system, their pivot to AI agents after ChatGPT's launch, concerns about the shrinking pipeline of systems engineers, and how companies like PlanetScale and Snowflake are outpacing AWS by delivering superior user experiences.About Brian: Brian is an engineer based in Intercom's Dublin office. He fixes problems, builds things, and grows people. Show Highlights(01:34) The Digital Clippy Rant(2:16) The Good Chatbot vs. Bad Chatbot (03:51) The AI Chatbot Revolution (04:33) Unexpected Consequences of Good Chatbots (05:42) AI Support vs. Human Support (05:59) The Alexa Problem and Feature Discoverability (19:03) Amazon's Struggles Moving Up the Stack (26:55) The Unix Networking Society Origins (34:43) The Global On-Call Challenge(42:09) LinkedIn: The World's Largest Porn Site LinksIntercom: intercom.comBrian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scanlanb/Brian on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bscanlan.bsky.socialSponsor Wiz - Listen to Crying Out Cloud: wiz.io/crying-out-cloud

Jesse shares 20 go-to questions for introducing friction in your deals.SPONSORS:ChatAE: https://www.chatae.ai/EPISODE LINKS: • 20 Questions Download: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ko2yqyLeZ-GdVCDaiROomtZrvvNw50Y3/edit • Schedule 1:1 Coaching Consult: https://calendly.com/jessewoodbury/1-1-coaching-overviewCONNECT WITH JESSE: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessewoodbury/HELP GROW SP: • Join Sales Players Slack Community: https://www.launchpass.com/saas_sales_players/free • Get a weekly email from SP: https://www.salesplayers.co/ • Subscribe! • Leave a rating, write a review, and share • Check out the above sponsors, it's the best way to support the showGUEST HIGHLIGHTS:Morgan J. Ingram, Chris Orlob, Ian Koniak, Jeb Blount, Brandon Fluharty, Scott Leese, Sarah Brazier, Jamal Reimer, Jen Allen-Knuth, Andy Paul, Collin Mitchell, Tim Zielinski, Christian Banach, Rajiv 'RajNATION' Nathan, Belal Batrawy, Christine Rogers, Chris Beall, Patrick Baynes, Jeroen Corthout, Nate Nasralla, Gabe Lullo, Vince Beese, Brandon Bornancin, Girish Redekar, Guillaume Moubeche, Lloyed Lobo, Corey Quinn, Danny Delvecchio, Tom Slocum, Todd Busler, Richard Harris, Krysten Conner, Dan Goodman, Kris Rudeegraap, Rachit Kataria© Sales Players, LLC

This solo episode embodies the anticipation of Autumn.https://adoptee-voices.com/Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 15th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Enforcing organization-wide Amazon S3 bucket-tagging policiesECS Exec is now available in the AWS Management ConsoleAWS Control Tower now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)Introducing AWS CDK Refactor (Preview)Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDEAWS WAF now includes free WAF Vended Logs based on request volumeAWS recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) with Amazon ConnectIntroducing universal installers for AWS CLI v2 on macOS

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia's APT29AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controlsRDS Data API now supports IPv6Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) RegionAWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) RegionProtect your Amazon Route 53 DNS zones and records Efficiently verify Amazon S3 data at scale with compute checksum operationAWS Elemental celebrates 10 years of innovationChoosing the right AWS live streaming solution for your use case

Most salespeople lose deals in the first five minutes, often without realizing it. Why? Because they fail to build trust fast enough. In this episode, Corey Quinn shares his Six-Slide Trust Multiplier, a proven framework that engineers trust early in the sales process, helping you double your close rate and dramatically shorten your sales cycle. With 30 years in high-ticket sales, 15,000+ clients served, and experience scaling Scorpion from $20M to $200M, Corey reveals how you can transform cold, skeptical prospects into eager buyers, all in the first 10 minutes of your call. ⏱ Episode Chapters [00:00] Why Most Sales Calls Fail – The hidden cost of resistance and how trust not tactics closes deals. [02:00] The Three Sales You Must Win – Why your buyer has to buy you, your company, and your solution. [03:30] Slide 1 – Agenda – How to establish professionalism, structure, and psychological safety. [04:45] Slide 2 – Company Credentials – Proving authority with data, credibility markers, and industry expertise. [06:00] Slide 3 – Common Pains – Naming your buyer's top challenges before they do (and why it builds instant trust). [07:30] Slide 4 – Signature System – Moving from “services” to a named, scalable framework that solves their problems. [09:00] Slide 5 – Client Success Story – Showing proof, not promises, with relatable transformations. [10:55] Slide 6 – Transition to Discovery – Shifting focus to your prospect's world while lowering resistance. [13:00] Why It Works – The psychology behind engineered trust, clarity, and flipping the sales dynamic. [14:00] Proven Results – How this system doubled close rates at Scorpion and freed founders from sales calls.

Your agency isn't growing as fast as it could not because of talent, but because you haven't specialized deeply enough. In this episode, Corey Quinn breaks down his proven 3-step Focus Finder system for choosing the right vertical market. This is the exact framework that helped scale Scorpion from $20M to $200M and that Corey's clients use to grow 93% faster than generalist agencies, win more referrals, and command premium prices. If you've ever hesitated to niche down because of “fear of missing out,” this episode will show you how to confidently choose a vertical that fuels both growth and fulfillment. ⏱ Episode Chapters [00:00] Why Agencies Struggle to Grow – The hidden cost of staying a generalist and why specialization leads to faster growth and higher valuations. [01:00] The Riches Are in the Niches – Key data showing why specialized agencies outperform generalists. [01:45] Step 1 – Gather the Wisdom in Your Business – How to use your own client data, retention, and team feedback to narrow options. [02:30] Example: Scorpion's Home Services Focus – Why revenue, retention, and margin made it the obvious choice. [02:55] Step 2 – Do You Give a Damn? – Why passion, empathy, and personal connection to a vertical matter for long-term success. [03:15] Real-Life Examples – From Chris Yano choosing home services to digital health agencies aligning with lifestyle values. [03:45] Step 3 – Run the Numbers – A simple calculation to project realistic 3-year revenue potential in any vertical. [04:30] Example: The $7.9M Plumbing Opportunity – How focus creates both revenue and profitability through repeatable systems. [05:00] The Confidence Factor – Why clarity on numbers eliminates guesswork and boosts certainty in your specialization path.

AI is rewriting the rules of code review and CodeRabbit is leading the charge. In this featured episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Harjot Gill shares with Corey Quinn how his team built the most-installed AI app on GitHub and GitLab, nailed positive unit economics, and turned code review into a powerful guardrail for the AI era.Show Highlights(0:00) Entrepreneurial Journey and Code Rabbit's Origin (3:06) The Broken Nature of Code Reviews (5:47) Developer Feedback and the Future of Code Review (9:50) AI-Generated Code and the Code Review Burden (11:46) Traditional Tools vs. AI in Code Review (13:41) Keeping Up with State-of-the-Art Models (16:16) Cloud Architecture and Google Cloud Run(18:21) Context Engineering for Large Codebases (20:52) Taming LLMs and Balancing Feedback (22:30) Business Model and Open Source Strategy About Harjot Gill Harjot is the CEO of CodeRabbit, a leading AI-first developer tools company. LinksHarjot on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harjotsgill/SponsorCodeRabbit: https://coderabbit.link/corey

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 2nd, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:How Ancestry optimizes a 100-billion-row Iceberg tableMastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules Bob's Used Books: Build a .NET Serverless Application on AWS – Part 2: ArchitectureHow Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWSHow to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs/performance with AWS Compute OptimizerGracefully handle failed AWS Lambda events from Amazon DynamoDB StreamsAnnouncing the AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP serverAWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technologyCount Tokens API supported for Anthropic's Claude models now in Amazon Bedrock