Podcast appearances and mentions of corey quinn

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Ed.D., LCSW, LMFT is a returning guest.She was the Founder and CEO of Center for Family Connections, Inc. in Cambridge and New York, Founder and Director of Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training, PACT (Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training, and Pavao Consulting and Coaching. Dr. Pavao has done extensive training, both nationally and internationally. She is a lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and she has consulted to various public and private child welfare agencies, adoption agencies, schools, and community groups, as well as probate and family court judges, lawyers, and clergy. Additionally, she has worked closely with individuals and families touched by adoption, foster care, and other complex blended family constructions. She has developed models for treatment, and models for training, using her systemic, intergenerational, and developmental framework, The Normative Crises in the Development of the Adoptive Family. Her book, The Family of Adoption, has received high acclaim. Dr. Pavao has received many awards and honors, including the Children's Bureau/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Adoption Excellence Award for Family Contribution (2003) and the Congressional Coalition on Adoption award for Angels in Adoption (2000).Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 14th with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon API Gateway now supports 1 MB execution logs with configurable delivery destinationsAmazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention with event holdsLambda's slow-motion reinvention of EC2Amazon EC2 now supports specifying compatible instance types on AMIsAnnouncing second-generation single-rack AWS OutpostsHow AWS thinks about FinOps Automation and TrustIntroducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accountsHow to migrate from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch ServerlessIntroducing Pizza Bot, an open source inbox for AI agents that work in the backgroundThree consecutive CVEs, all AWS-authored code

AWS VP of Global Networking Matt Rehder joins Corey Quinn to pull back the curtain on the massive network infrastructure behind AWS. They explore resiliency at scale, AWS's move toward flatter networks, the advantages of building custom hardware, and why AI is making networking exciting again.Show Highlights: (01:08) Meet AWS Networking Lead(02:01) Why AWS Avoids Global Outages(05:23) RNG Flat Network Explained(10:08) Overbuild Capacity And Custom Hardware(17:37) VPC Virtual Network Origins(19:50) Why TCP Still Wins(20:38) SRD Inside AWS(21:54) Opt In SRD Transport(25:31) Networks As Utilities (27:24) Learning And Growing Engineers(29:22) Training Talent In House(31:27) AI Rekindles Networking(34:26) Where To Learn Networking

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 8th with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functionsAmazon CloudWatch now supports warm-up periods for alarmsAmazon Kinesis Data Streams announces data delivery to general purpose Amazon S3 bucketsAmazon Linux 2027 is now available in public previewAmazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plansAAA games on a $35 stick: How Luna removes the hardware barrier with AWSHow t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore paymentsIntroducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWSTokenomics at scale: How Jamf built real-time spend enforcement for Amazon BedrockHow PGA TOUR automated live profanity detection with AWS using Amazon TranscribeAWS and Microsoft Azure collaborate to expand multicloud networkingWe invited a direct competitor into Security Hub Extended. Here's why.Detect stalled Amazon S3 live replication to prevent unexpected storage costsSix AWS security bulletins in five days

Elizabeth Barbour. M.Ed. is an adoptee and adoptive mom with 27 years of reunion experience. In 1999, she found her birth mom, birth dad and eleven brothers and sisters. An adoption reunion coach, speaker and author of two books, she's currently writing her third about building healthy relationships in adoption reunions. Elizabeth helps people find grace and grounding amidst the grief and complexity of the reunion process through self-care, storytelling, and ritual. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina and you can learn more about her at www.elizabethbarbour.comElizabeth Barbour's Eventbrite Music by Corey Quinn

Gretchen Sisson, PhD, is a sociologist who studies abortion and adoption in the United States. She is a researcher at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, part of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research examining adoption decision-making after abortion denial (as part of The Turnaway Study) was cited in the Supreme Court's dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health from Justices Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor. In response to the oral arguments and decision in Dobbs, she authored pieces in the Washington Post, The Nation, and the Washington Post (again). Gretchen's research been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and Consider This, as well as in New York Magazine, VOX, and other outlets.https://www.gretchensisson.comMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policiesAWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidationAWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and NetskopeAutomating filtered Cost and Usage Report exports with AWS Data ExportsAWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 supportHappy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI.AWS and DuckLabs: Building the future of analytics togetherState of Kansas modernizes mainframe file transfer using AWS Transfer FamilyFive AWS security bulletins, zero AWS-side fixes

On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Adam Larsen, Principal Developer at Aurora Educational Technologies, to explore what technology and AI should actually look like in K-12 education. They discuss using tech to empower teachers rather than replace them, the risks of outsourcing critical thinking to AI, student data privacy, and what happens when schools become dependent on tools that may not be affordable forever. Adam also shares how AWS became his go-to platform for solving complex education data problems, and why sometimes the best technology is simply the one that reliably gets the job done.Show Highlights: 00:00 Critical Thinking Warning00:15 Meet the Guest01:07 From Psych to Edtech02:07 Teachers and Tool Whiplash07:29 AI as a Teaching Aid10:07 Process Over Shortcuts14:29 Tech Misconceptions in Schools16:38 Privacy and Picking Vendors21:50 AI Costs and Ecosystem Bets26:33 Building on AWS and Wrap UpSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Diana Kayla Hochberg is the author of Connected: Finding My Truth and a late-discovery Black Market Baby. Born in Montreal during the Baby Scoop Era and brought to the United States as an infant, Diana spent decades believing the story she had been told about her beginnings. Then, at thirty-eight years old, she uncovered a life-changing truth: there were no adoption papers, she had never been legally adopted, and the birth certificate she had lived with was false.It took nearly three decades of searching to uncover the fuller truth about her beginnings. Her journey revealed a hidden history of altered birth certificates, missing documents, and babies moved between Canada and the United States under false records. Born on Canadian soil, Diana believes she was denied not only the truth about who she was, but also the birthright that should have been hers from the day she was born.In Connected: Finding My Truth, Diana shares her deeply personal journey to uncover her identity, reconnect with family, and reclaim her story. Today, she speaks openly about identity, belonging, and every person's right to know where they come from, while continuing her fight for the birthright she believes was taken from her.Diana Kayla HochbergMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 24th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editorAWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon BedrockAWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) RegionAWS Billing and Cost Management Introduces Managed Dashboards for Instant Cloud Financial VisibilityIn the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São PauloAmazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernelIntroducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15AWS and Amazon WorkSpaces recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scaleAWS Network Firewall now supports rule hit countUpdates to your AWS Sign-In experienceFour AWS Security Bulletins in One August Week

Charity Barriere Muhammed is an educator, author, speaker, and advocate whose life journey bridges adoption, genealogy, trauma recovery, and Black history. After spending 41 years separated from her biological father, she discovered she is the daughter of Joseph McGill Jr., founder of the Slave Dwelling Project. Her reunion has transformed her understanding of identity, family, and legacy while inspiring her to help others heal through genealogy, truth-telling, and education. Drawing on her years as an educator and her lived experience as a kinship adoptee, Charity speaks about the lifelong impact of adoption, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), resilience, and the power of reclaiming one's story.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EC2 introduces application status checksAWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instancesAmazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messagesAWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQubeBurst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWSAmazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you workIntroducing the next-generation AWS VPN Client with CLI support and admin controlsAWS Certificate Manager will discontinue email validation to prove domain validation for certificatesHow AWS IAM role manager rethinks the starting point for IAM rolesHow to authenticate customers during chat with Amazon Connect CustomerHow WeatherBug reduced storage costs by 80% using Amazon S3 Storage Lens and Kiro CLIIntroducing the new AWS Cloud Quest: AI-powered practice, hands-on building, and a path to official AWS badgesTwo bulletins, one CVE, and Base64 bites C++

Charity Barriere Muhammad is an educator, author, speaker, and advocate whose life journey bridges adoption, genealogy, trauma recovery, and Black history. After spending 41 years separated from her biological father, she discovered she is the daughter of Joseph McGill Jr., founder of the Slave Dwelling Project. Her reunion has transformed her understanding of identity, family, and legacy while inspiring her to help others heal through genealogy, truth-telling, and education. Drawing on her years as an educator and her lived experience as a kinship adoptee, Charity speaks about the lifelong impact of adoption, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), resilience, and the power of reclaiming one's story.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GBAWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPCAWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th categoryOpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon BedrockHow to understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costsAmazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scaleRuntime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Connect Service Quota MonitorEnforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon BedrockReintroducing Network Firewall Proxy for Secure Egress ConnectivityAWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent ExtensionsIntroducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agentsAWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflowsCaching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scaleAccess Amazon S3 backup data directly using S3 Access Points in AWS BackupTwelve AWS bulletins, mostly AI toolingFrom weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations

Ronnie Jacobs Jr. is an educator, consultant and podcaster of Firepit Conversations with his brother Aaron. A life long learner, uncle, and dedicated partner. Firepit Conversations - PodcastMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 3rd, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logsAWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GAAWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWSAWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual InterfacesAWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directoryAWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit GatewayIAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilitiesAmazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughputAccelerate Spark on EMR Serverless with larger workers and shuffle-optimized disksInstalling and updating the AWS CLI with single-line commandsDeploying Kimi K3 on AWSHow Amazon CloudFront delivered traffic for the FIFA World Cup 2026Amazon identifies North Korean hacker group behind open-source supply chain attacksAWS KMS or AWS CloudHSM: Choose the right key management solutionAWS Shield Advanced is embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group: What changes and how to prepareSecure your npm and pip package updates in Amazon LinuxAWS security bulletins: patching the patch

Ronnie Jacobs Jr. is an educator, consultant and podcaster of Firepit Conversations with his brother Aaron. A life long learner, uncle, and dedicated partner. Firepit Conversations - PodcastMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 26th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibilityAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspaceAmazon SES introduces pricing plansAWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routingAWS Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organizationAWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferencesAWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridgeJVM memory, CPU, and classpath best practices for Java containers on AWSConnection pooling strategies in Amazon Aurora DSQLCustom OS installation now available on AWS DeepRacer devicesThermodynamic sampling of disordered materials with an analog Hamiltonian Rydberg simulatorUnlocking data residency use cases with Amazon S3 in AWS Local ZonesAWS Security Bulletins: New Tools, Ancient Failures

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storageAmazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashesIntroducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloadsAWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations consoleAWS Lambda announces self-managed code storageAmazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IAAmazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scaleAnnouncing Lambda MicroVMs: serverless compute environments with VM-level isolation and near-instant startupEliminating Java cold starts with AWS Lambda Managed InstancesIntroducing open source Bulk Executor for Amazon DynamoDBAutomating CIDR expansion: Reducing IP exhaustion downtimeSetting up Layer 2 Networking on Amazon EC2Security Hub adds AI workload protection and multicloud support for Microsoft AzureFive CVEs and the Agentic AI Security Reckoning

Brittney Lee aka Bonya (she/they) is a child and family wellness consultant with lived expertise, and an intersectional storyteller passionate about the abolition of family policing systems. She has a strong track record of advancing complex projects that serve diverse and underserved populations. Her work has included supporting legislatively mandated committees, developing workshops, social media campaigns, and critical research on disparities as they affect community and families, youth and children. Having experienced over seventeen foster placements in the span of just over seventeen years of their childhood, their current aspiration is to utilize their growth and knowledge gained from resilience, community involvement and employment opportunities with youth who have experienced foster care and child welfare practitioners. They want to be the person they needed when they were younger and overall remind us all again just how deeply sacred children and young people are.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 13th with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft AzureAmazon EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26aiAWS Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox EnvironmentsAWS Security Hub now offers Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resourcesAmazon Cognito now supports self-service provisioned API rate limitsAWS Security Hub adds impact analysis for exposure findingsBlazing a Trail: How Peloton Rebuilt the SDLC for the Agentic Era with Amazon BedrockHow United Airlines solved IP exhaustion with Private NAT GatewayBuilding secure AI agents at scale: Introducing Loom for AWSWhat does it cost to answer one question? Measuring per-request cost in agentic workloadsDesigning for the inevitable: System prompt leakage and mitigations in generative AI applicationsThe CISO's guide to post-quantum mandates and migrationsTwo CVEs on the theme of guarding keys badly

Yvette Monique is a kinship adoptee. She has held various role in the healthcare for over 35 years. She holds an Associate Degree in Nursing, Bachelor's Degree in Business and a Master's Degree in Human Resources Management.Yvette is a Certified Birth Justice Doula and currently working on becoming a Certified Professional Midwife in the fall of the year. She is the mother of 2 adult children, 3 grandchildren, and a grand pup. She sits on various boards of several non-profit organizations and loves the fact of giving back.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July, 6th with Corey Quinn. Links:Announcing general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agentsAmazon CloudWatch supports creating alarms from log queriesECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routingHow InterWiz reduced AI costs by 90% with Amazon BedrockAccelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express modeAutomate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate ManagerUpgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacksSafely Releasing Frontier Models to CustomersAccelerating government FinOps with Amazon QuickFour CVEs: AWS reads half your request, leaks the rest

Original air date: March 21, 2023Hannah Andrews was born in Chicago and was adopted as an infant during the Baby Scoop Era. She was raised on a Midwestern farm with two older adoptee brothers. In 2018, a chance meeting with an author birthmother sent Hannah in search of her own history. She found more questions than answers, but found guidance and community from fellow triad members. She joined the AKA board to provide that same support to others. Hannah is a writer, pianist & pet enthusiast . She lives in San Diego, CA with her dog Josie and three Pussycats .Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 29th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKSAmazon GuardDuty AI-powered investigations accelerate threat response (Preview)Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now supports sharing DNS Views between AWS AccountsAutomate AWS Invoice Retrieval with New Programmatic APIsRun isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMsUpgrading Lambda function runtimes at scale with AWS Transform customHuntington Bank: Redacting sensitive data from 400M+ documents with AWSOpen Governance for MySQL: A Step Forward for the CommunityHow AWS and a local community organization built a developer engagement model that worksModernizing border control with digital arrival cards on AWS CloudPrevent data exfiltration: AWS egress controls for cloud workloadsRestrict AWS Management Console access to expected networks with sign-in resource-based policies and RCPsA new way to keep your AWS Certification current CVE-2026-12957 and CVE-2026-12958 - Issues in Language Servers for AWS and Amazon Q Developer Plugins

AI-generated code is no longer just producing low-quality pull requests. According to AWS Principal Engineer and Valkey core maintainer Madelyn Olson, the quality of AI-assisted contributions has improved dramatically in just the last few months.In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn and Madelyn discuss how AI is changing open source development, the growing burden on maintainers, and how projects like Valkey are using AI to find bugs, improve security, and harden production systems. They also explore Valkey's continued growth, the future of software development, and why experience, operational knowledge, and community still matter in an age where code is becoming cheaper to create. *Since this episode was recorded without video, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to get creative with AI!Show Highlights: (00:00) Open Source Stability Push(00:32) Reinvent Afterglow Banter(01:40) AI PRs Get Better(04:36) Whimsy Versus AI Slop(06:14) AI Security Hunting Reality(09:12) Maintainers Adapt to AI(11:28) Valkey Fork Wins Adoption(14:43) Fighting the AI Tidal Wave(23:45) Next Five Years and Roadmap(27:02) Release Woes and Where to FollowAbout Madelyn: Madelyn Olson is a co-creator and core maintainer of Valkey, a high-performance key-value datastore, and a Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She specializes in building secure, highly reliable systems and is passionate about collaborating with open-source communities. In her role at Amazon, Madelyn serves as a Principal Software Development Engineer for Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB, where she focuses on advancing distributed data technologies and contributing to the growth and success of the Valkey project.Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Loren Stephens is the author of “All Sorrows Can Be Borne” her debut novel based on her husband's (Dana Miyoshi) personal story and that of his birth family set in Japan and Montana during and after World War Two. Loren is a short story writer and a ghostwriter with some forty books credited to her Los Angeles based company, Write Wisdom. In addition to her author/client projects she is at work on her second novel, “Elise Goldberg Goes to Paris.”Loren Stephenshttps://lorenmstephens.com › about-meMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 22nd, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Marketplace announces AI-assisted product listingAmazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics for unified log analysisAmazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egressFree Network Bandwidth Amazon GameLift Servers is Here!AWS announces AWS Blocks, an open-source framework for composing application backends on AWS (Preview)AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EBS volume recommendations with additional performance metricsIntroducing AWS Continuum for security at machine speedAWS Management Console Private Access now works without internet connectivityAWS Security Agent announces support for Threat ModelingGrok 4.3 from xAI now available in Amazon BedrockAmazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029AWS Marketplace reduces listing fee for professional services to 0.5%S3 Vectors: More Results, Cheaper Queries, Fresh FeesAmazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to your objectsAnnouncing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUsAWS DevOps Agent adds release management capabilities to assess code changes before production (preview)AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization capability to help content owners charge AI bots for content accessSimulating Amazon EC2 EBS burst credits before downsizing an instanceAWS Security Bulletin Quartet: AI Tools Forget Unix 101

Dana Miyoshi was born in Osaka, Japan and was adopted by his aunt and uncle who resided in Montana. He flew by himself on a plane from Tokyo to San Francisco when he was 2.5 years old to meet his new parents and grew up in Glendive, Montana. After graduating from high school, he spent one year at the University of Montana and then dropped out to join the U.S. Navy. He served for 11 years in the Navy and spent two whole tours and one partial tour in Japan, where he was able to reunite with his birth mother, grandmother, and various cousins. After the Navy, he worked in several roles around Los Angeles and finally finished his degree at UCLA. He continues to reside in Los Angeles where he works as the office manager for a civil engineering firm.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 15th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials ProviderAnnouncing the public preview of AWS FinOps AgentIntroducing AI-Powered Cost Investigations For Cost AnomaliesAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 23 new query commands and functionsIntroducing Target Coverage in Savings Plans Purchase AnalyzerIntroducing the AWS Credits Detail PageAnthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now availableNow available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processorsTry the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIsAWS Nitro Isolation Engine: Formally verifying the hypervisor in the AWS Nitro SystemIt's safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore27 AWS Security Bulletins: A Patch Tuesday That Lasted a Year

Story of the Week (DR):SuperBroIpoDystopia: Some key facts: MMa record-breaking $135 per share with$1.8T valuationTo make that math make sense, analysts estimate the company needs to grow its sales by 50% every single year for the next decadeSpaceX lost $4.9B last yearWall Street is Being Treated Like Order-Takers: Musk pre-set the IPO price strictly at $135 and dictating exactly which investors got allocations. This forced major investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to act as glorified order-takers without even knowing their exact compensation beforehandSaudi Aramco $1.7T; Alibaba: $237B; Facebook $118BNasdaq aggressively pushed through "fast-entry" rule changes specifically to allow mega-caps like SpaceX to bypass the traditional year of seasoning and enter the Nasdaq-100 in just 15 trading days. This forces passive index funds to buy in blindly to avoid tracking errorsMeme stocker bros: $100B in share orders30% of $75B offering is earmarked for individual retail investors. This effectively shifts late-stage, hyper-inflated valuation risk away from institutions and onto the public.BlackRock $5BInstitutional investors admitted that when they bought into SpaceX privately, they were given high-level revenue figures but were denied a copy of the actual balance sheet—an unprecedented lack of transparency for a company raising tens of billionsUniversity of Washington more than 10% of its $17B in assetsUNC about 10%SpaceX will make $75B in proceedsSaudi Aramco $26B; Alibaba $22BElon Musk's Absolute Voting Tyranny (80% of voting power)personal net worth has officially skyrocketed past $1.1TSpaceX's foundational scale was built on the back of the American public, securing over $20 billion in U.S. federal government contracts to fund its rocket developmentAntonio Gracias: personally lent Musk $1M to keep him afloat; his PE firm Valor gave $76MThat $1M lifeline and early institutional backing from 2008 have compounded into what analysts are calling the most lucrative return on a personal favor in business history.The Second-Largest Shareholder: Through various Valor entities, Gracias controls roughly 7.3% of SpaceX's Class A stock (more than 500 million shares)Gracias's stake is officially worth anywhere from $91B to over $140BThis single corporate listing instantly catapults Gracias into the ranks of the world's 50 richest people.The big party: combined valuation of $3.6TAnthropic ($965B) filed confidentially on June 1OpenAI ($1T) filed confidentially on June 8"We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company. But it's a complicated set of tradeoffs, and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best."What does it all amount to? 4 horrible objectives:Funding a Sci-Fi Passion Project with Public CashBecoming the Pentagon's Irreplaceable War MachineForget the folksy narrative that Starlink is just for connecting rural schools or isolated communities: SpaceX is systematically turning itself into the ultimate military contractorProject Starshield: Those satellites are the foundation for a highly classified, militarized version of the network designed for government surveillance, secure communications, and real-time battlefield tracking.Too Big to Regulate: By launching the vast majority of the world's payloads and controlling the dominant orbital communications network, SpaceX is making the U.S. military entirely dependent on its hardware. The ultimate point is to become so deeply embedded in national defense that the government can never afford to regulate, penalize, or dismantle Musk's empireAn Orbital Real Estate Land GrabBuilding a Borderless, Lawless EmpireSpaceX is attempting to build a tech infrastructure that exists entirely outside the jurisdiction of EarthUltimately, SpaceX isn't trying to save humanity from a dying Earth; it's trying to ensure that whoever controls Earth's future has to pay rent to Elon MuskIran threatens Elon Musk's companies in Middle East: Iranian state mediaAll of Elon Musk's companies in the Middle East are military targets for Iran as it retaliates against the U.S., Iranian state media outlet Fars reported.The targets include a regional Starlink ground station, according to Fars.Sen. Warren calls on SEC to delay SpaceX IPO, flagging concerns about valuation and governanceThe letter to the heads of the Nasdaq, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell and Morningstar Indexes sent on Thursday asked the companies whether they had made or considered rule changes based on lobbying from Elon Musk, other SpaceX officials or officials from OpenAI or Anthropic, and asked for any communications between the companies and the indexesLSEG, which owns the FTSE Russell, and Nasdaq declined to comment. Morningstar did not respond to a request from CNBC for comment.S&P Dow Jones Indices didn't comment on the letter, but the company noted it had decided not to change its rules regarding indexes: “S&P DJI determined that exceptions to these requirements should not be granted solely based on market capitalization,” it said in a statement to CNBC. “The decision not to adopt the proposed exceptions preserves core index principles by maintaining consistent application of these key requirements.”Democrats ask Goldman Sachs CEO why he's keeping lawyer who said she'd resign over ties to EpsteinGoldman Sachs CEO David Solomon is facing new scrutiny from congressional Democrats over his reported effort to retain the bank's top lawyer months after she said she would resign over revelations about her ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey EpsteinIn a letter sent Wednesday:U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs CommitteeRepresentative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services on the House Oversight Committee“Ruemmler ‘educated (Epstein) on how the law differentiates between underage victims of sex crimes and adult prostitutes…'”In February, Ruemmler announced her resignation from Goldman Sachs, effective June 30, 2026: “At the time, you stated that you “reluctantly” accepted Ruemmler's resignation. While Goldman Sachs has declined to comment on this matter, new reporting suggests that you ‘pressed' her to reconsider her resignation and instead move to a new position within the firm.”Teardown of Trump Phone Reveals Incredibly Embarrassing SecretA recent teardown by repair company iFixit confirmed that the T1 is an almost entirely unmodified HTC U24 Pro, a two-year-old and mid-tier Android phone, with a cheap coat of gold colorationTrump is selling an entirely Chinese smartphone, despite waging an economic war against the country.Apart from minuscule changes to the speaker grille and a lengthened flex cable, iFixit concluded that “everything is the same, except the pattern of holes in the case.”Goodliest of the Week (MM/DR):DR: Google and Meta denied new trial in youth social media addiction caseMM: In the United States, Solar Energy is Outpacing Coal for the First Time EverAssholiest of the Week - SPEED ROUND (MM):BP's useless, reactionary board of directors: BP drops net zero division in wake of boardroom turmoil; BP's new CEO Meg O'Neill rips up the energy giant's playbook—and the ‘green' era with it - 10Ryanair blowhard CEO Michael O'Leary: Ryanair investigated over charging parents to sit with children - 5EV killing GM and Mary Barra: GM is pivoting its battery expertise toward powering AI data centers and the grid - 10Every company that fired employees and replaced them with AI: Unfortunate Company Accidentally Blows Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in One Month; AI sticker shock hits corporate America - 10Everything out of Alex Karp's fat mouth: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says executives who brag about their AI cuts might as well ‘sign up for the Bernie Sanders manifesto'; Palantir CEO says AI companies 'don't understand how unlikeable they are'; - 10Sorry Liz, this is investors job: Sen. Warren calls on SEC to delay SpaceX IPO, flagging concerns about valuation and governance - 0Every investor in SpaceX IPO: Franklin Templeton to participate in SpaceX IPO, CEO Johnson tells CNBC; SpaceX IPO demand is approaching four times oversubscribed, source says; Wall Street's undignified SpaceX mania; SpaceX's president hints at a Tesla merger: 'That might make Elon's life a little easier' - 10Billionaires: Billionaires' Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever - 10Beef (not Ebola): Elon Musk Faces Backlash as a Horrific Texas Screwworm Outbreak Follows Brutal DOGE Budget Cuts - 10Mark: Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation“Last week, Wired reported that Meta discreetly moved to infuse facial recognition tech into its popular smart glasses, as evidenced by a piece of code discovered in the Meta AI app by the magazine's journalists.” - 10Headliniest of the WeekDR: UBS CEO [Sergio] Ermotti hopes to step down before 2030MM: You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work“The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that ‘sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse,” tweeted San Francisco-based startup founder Corey Quinn. (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination and retaliation based on race, color, national origin, religion, and sex.)MM: Furious Judge Cancels Entire Trial After Finding Out Lawyers on Both Sides Used AIWho Won the Week?DR: HTC U24 Pro, a two-year-old and mid-tier Android phone. Or maybe it was the cheap gold paint?MM: Everyone religious - what CAN'T you opt out of using a religious exemption? PredictionsDR: Attacking dictator-run companies (i.e., Iran/Tesla) starts to enter the realm of normalcyMM: Atheists adopt a religion to opt out of tech bro oligarchies

What happens when two cloud economists leave AWS  behind and spend six days hiking 60 miles on the Appalachian Trail? Corey Quinn sits down with Caleb Hurd to share stories from the trail, including exploding sleeping pads, heroic shuttle drivers, lost phones, and the unique community that makes long-distance hiking special. Along the way, they draw surprising parallels between backpacking and cloud economics, discussing everything from serverless architecture and cloud cost optimization to the hidden challenges of on-prem infrastructure. It's a conversation about technology, adventure, perspective, and why sometimes the best way to solve complex problems is to step away from them entirely.Show highlights:(00:00) Why Hiking Hooks You(00:15) Meet Caleb on the Trail(01:31) Trail Miles and Ultralight Parallels(05:24) The Sleeping Pad Blowout(07:46) Shepherd Saves the Day(09:43) Trail Community and Cloud Community(11:07) Post Trail Perspective and Inside Jokes(15:35) Back to Work On Prem vs Cloud Pain(25:47) Server-less Spend and Lambda Sprawl(32:29) Wrap Up Where to Find CalebAbout Caleb: Caleb Hurd is a Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he helps enterprises make sense of their cloud spend. Before moving to the cost side of the house, Caleb spent years in the trenches building and operating large-scale cloud environments and leading the engineering teams behind them across companies ranging from healthcare tech to enterprise Saas. He also founded CostOps.cloud, an AWS cost consulting practice, and is a vocal advocate for engineering-led FinOps — arguing that the people closest to the architecture should be the ones driving cost strategy, not spreadsheet jockeys in finance. Caleb holds a degree from Georgia Tech and made an unconventional journey into tech from a background in carpentry, which may explain his preference for building things over just talking about them. He's based in Atlanta.Links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebrhurd/Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Jonathan Todd Newbern ( 2nd legal name ) is a domestic, same race, late discovery adoptee. Having intuitions and instincts that he was always adopted from a very young age. Only to find out at the age of eighteen, that his instincts were true, and he was adopted. Jonathan stepped into true adoption consciousness in his late thirties and works in a 12 Step co- dependency group. You might have seen him on an adoption zoom meeting, because he is very pro constellation, when it comes to support and getting legal rights and of course getting reparations.Email: Jonknee51475@gmail.com, IG: Jonknbe1 and Fb: Jonathan T NewbernMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 8th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tierOracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS RegionsAmazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replicationAmazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.36Amazon SES now supports tenant-level suppression listsAWS Compute Optimizer now supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendationsAWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integrationAmazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durabilityUnderstanding how backups work in Amazon AuroraOpenAI models and Codex on Amazon Bedrock are now generally availableHow Bedrock Streaming optimizes its AWS costsFrom Monolith to Multi-Account: Pinterest's AWS Organization Transformation JourneyGain visibility into DDoS attacks with flow logs in AWS Shield AdvancedIdentify unused AWS KMS keys and prevent accidental key deletionsCVE-2026-10591 - Kiro IDE Insufficient File Write Restrictions to Execution-Sensitive PathsCVE-2026-10584 - HTTPS Fallback to HTTP in Graph Explorer

Maya Holmes is a returning guest.Maya (she/her) is a same race domestic adoptee from St. Louis, MO. She has been active in the adoptee community since 2020/21 after finding her first family. Maya has been featured on several adoption focused podcasts and has begun writing her memoir. Outside of the adoption space, Maya recently completed her MSW/MBA and plans to continue working as a therapist. She loves pottery, hiking, and traveling in her free time. Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of June 1st, with Corey Quinn. Links:Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widgetIntroducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applicationsOptimize costs in Amazon AuroraHow AWS DevOps Agent uses multi-agent reasoning to find root causesClaude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWSBest Practices for TCP Connection Management on EC2Introducing US-based, US citizen, 24/7 technical support for AWS GovCloud (US) customers: Your mission never sleeps, neither do weWell-architected best practices for software supply chain securityAutomate Amazon EBS gp2 to gp3 migration at scale with AWS Step Functions and AWS LambdaAWS Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changesCVE-2026-9255 - Tool Execution Without Authorization via Piped Stdin in Kiro CLICVE-2026-9291 - Insecure Deserialization in Amazon Braket SDK Job Results Processing

In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with Dexter Horthy, CEO and Co-founder of Human Layer, to unpack what engineers are getting wrong about AI, especially when it comes to coding agents.From the obsession with “just throwing more tokens at the problem” to the reality of building scalable AI workflows, Dexter shares hard-earned insights on how to actually push models to their limits. They dive into the evolution of developer workflows, the rise of AI-powered software factories, and why understanding context and verification matters more than raw model power.If you're building with AI or trying to, this episode will challenge how you think about what these systems can (and can't) do.Show highlights: (00:00)Throwing Tokens Too Far(01:04) Meet Dexter Horthy(01:52) Personal AI Benchmarks(04:12) Human Layer Race Condition(05:59) Rewrites and Tech Debt(07:19) Software Factories Mindset(10:20) Verifiable Problems and Token Limits(13:45) Agents in the Trenches(18:05) GitHub at Agent Scale(26:23) Safety Ethics and Closing ThoughtsAbout Dexter: Dexter Horthy is the CEO and Co-Founder of HumanLayer, where he helps engineering teams tackle complex problems in large codebases using coding agents. Previously, he worked in DevOps, SRE, and Solutions Engineering at Replicated, and contributed to lunar navigation software at NASA JPL. Outside of work, he's a fan of tacos and burpees, though not necessarily in that order.Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dexterihorthy/Website: https://humanlayer.devSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 25th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Bedrock expands support for request-level usage attributionAmazon ECS introduces pause and continue controls for service deploymentsAWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in previewAWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally availableIntroducing ExtendDB: An open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backendsNine Entertainment's journey: Achieving 98% cost savings with Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for ValkeyAnnouncing updated retry behavior for AWS SDKs and ToolsAnnouncing AWS CDK Mixins: Composable Abstractions for AWS ResourcesCVE-2026-8838 - Remote Code Execution in amazon-redshift-python-driverCVE-2026-9133 - Arbitrary file read in rabbitmq-aws plugin

Cynthia Boone is a returning guest.She is a Late Discovery Adoptee who learned she was adopted just two days after her 46th birthday. Her journey to truth unfolded over several years—first reuniting with her birthmother, and later, through AncestryDNA, connecting with her birthfather's family. These discoveries reshaped her understanding of identity, family, and belonging.An educator for 39 years, Cynthia spent much of her career as a reading specialist in K–8 public schools, bringing deep listening skills, patience, and compassion to her work. Today, she brings those same strengths to adoptee spaces as a facilitator and community leader. She is a founding member of the Adoptee Sisterhood Group and an active participant in adoptee writing and discussion communities.At Untangling Our Roots 2026, Cynthia was a panelist for The Last to Know: How to Heal from Late Discovery, sharing lived experience, insight, and hope for those navigating identity after late discovery.Music by Corey Quinn

Keith Sciarillo is a returning guest. He is a Late Discovery Adoptee who is also of a different race than the family that he was adopted into. He is 1 of 8 children that his biological mother had relinquished for Adoption. He grew up in a family of 6 children in which he is the only one that is adopted. A loving father and Accounting professional currently residing in the DC metropolitan area. Connecting with others in the Adoption community is what he enjoys most about his work and being involved with various organizations such as C.A.S.E. and Together on the Journey camp.Ingrid Alli is an actor, spoken word poet and content creator who believes that art has the ability to awaken humanity to our highest potential. She's always been enamored by the joy of creating and fell in love with performing when she danced on the stage for the first time at the age of 4. After earning a BA in musical theatre at Point Park University, she worked professionally in theaters in Virginia. Then she lived in Atlanta, GA for nearly ten years to pursue opportunities in film and television. After returning to her hometown of Richmond, VA she booked the lead role of Abbie in Myth of the Ghost Kingdom which was filmed locally. TikTok @ingrid.alliJason Mullis is an award-winning director and producer with over twenty years of experience across photography, film production, and advertising. His work focuses on character-driven independent cinema and intimate psychological storytelling.His debut feature film Her Tango premiered on Amazon Prime and built a dedicated following among tango enthusiasts and independent film audiences. His second feature film, Myth of the Ghost Kingdom, is available for purchase and rental on Amazon and Apple TV.Jason shares his inspiration for writing and directing "Myth of the Ghost Kingdom," How the story was driven by the fact that many people are uncovering major family secrets through genealogy research, and he wanted to create a respectful portrayal of the adoptee experience. Jason acknowledged that while the film industry often exploits adoption stories rather than accurately representing them, he aimed to tell an authentic story centered on the adoptee experience.mythoftheghostkingdom.comMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 18th , with Corey Quinn. Links:Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instancesAmazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed InstancesAmazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS GravitonAmazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability ZonesStreaming CloudWatch metrics to VPC-based OpenTelemetry collectors using LambdaHow HotelTrader cut inter-AZ cost 95% and latency by 49% with Valkey GLIDE on Amazon ElastiCacheIntroducing Claude Platform on AWS: Anthropic's native platform, through your AWS accountAmazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate pricing plan now supports higher, configurable usage allowancesScalable cross-cloud data migration to Amazon S3 with distributed rcloneDirty Frag and other issues in Amazon Linux kernelsCVE-2026-8178 - Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Class Loading in Amazon Redshift JDBC DriverFragnesia Local Privilege Escalation report via ESP-in-TCP in the Linux KernelOngoing updates on Copy.fail and variantsIssue with Amazon SageMaker Python SDK - Model artifact integrity verification issues (CVE-2026-8596 &: CVE-2026-8597)

In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to explore the next evolution of DevOps.After two decades of building systems to reduce operational pain, David shares how AWS's new DevOps Agent is pushing automation to a whole new level, autonomously diagnosing incidents, suggesting fixes, and proactively improving systems before engineers even log in.From pager overload to autonomous remediation, this conversation is a glimpse into a world where software isn't the bottleneck anymore, operations are evolving into something entirely new.If you care about DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or just want fewer 3 a.m. alerts, this episode is for you.Show highlights: (00:00) DevOps Meets Agents(00:13) Welcome and Sponsor Break(01:29) David Yanacek Backstory(02:34) DevOps Roots at Amazon(04:22) DevOps Agent GA Overview(05:32) LLMs MCP and Any Cloud(08:32) Guardrails and Safe Changes(11:47) Beta Results and Consistency(14:13) Troubleshooting Theory and On Demand(17:29) Future of DevOps and ClosingAbout David: David Yanacek is a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and a lead advisor on the Agentic AI team. His current work focuses on Kiro, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and AWS's operational agents, where he helps shape the future of intelligent, autonomous systems.Over a 19+ year career at Amazon and AWS, David has been at the forefront of building services that simplify life for developers and operators. His experience spans serverless, DevOps, and CloudOps, including launching Amazon DynamoDB and AWS IoT Core, and contributing to the direction of cornerstone services like AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon CloudWatch.David also served as the lead publisher for the Amazon Builders' Library, helping customers apply Amazon's hard-earned architectural and operational lessons to their own systems.Outside of engineering, David plays the French horn in a local Seattle ensemble.Links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-yanacek/Website: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/authors/david-yanacek/Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Alex has over 40 years of creative process and production experience in marketing, advertising, and commercial and feature film production (Behind Enemy Lines, Fox 2001; Flight of the Phoenix, Fox 2004). He has been the recipient of multiple advertising industry awards for creativity and innovation as a manager of creative talent and production company owner, For the last 15+ years, he has been consulting with major brands on enterprise-level initiatives, solving creative and organizational problems for Fortune 500 companies. https://www.talexblum.com/ Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 11th , with Corey Quinn. Links:Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWSAmazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC OriginsAmazon EventBridge supports data plane logging to AWS CloudTrailAWS IAM now provides higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and identity providersAWS Marketplace now supports programmatic procurement with Agreements APIThe AWS MCP Server is now generally availableAnnouncing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCacheQuery billion-scale vectors with SQL: Integrating Amazon S3 Vectors and Aurora PostgreSQLYou Wanted to Become AI-Native, and All You Got Was a Lousy FoundationCVE-2026-7461 - OS Command Injection in Amazon ECS Agent via FSx Windows File Server Volume CredentialsCVE-2026-7791 - Local Privilege Escalation via TOCTOU Race Condition in Amazon WorkSpaces Skylight AgentCVE-2026-31431

Tracy Clark-Flory is a journalist, essayist, and author of the new memoir My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past, which Kirkus calls “powerful,” “deeply researched,” “lyrically written,” and “moving.” New York Times bestselling author Peggy Orenstein says Clark-Flory “connects the dots between her own life, the reader's, and the larger culture, turning the family story of a pregnant girl caught by the social forces of her time—around gender, race, class—into the story of all women: who we are as daughters, how we carry the relationships to our mothers long after they are gone, and how we are shaped, generationally, by the limits on our personal, sexual, and reproductive freedom.”She's also the author of the previous book Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire, an NPR Best Book of the Year. She has written for Cosmopolitan, The Cut, Elle, Esquire, Marie Claire, Glamour, The Guardian, The Washington Post, WIRED, Women's Health, and many others. Previously, she was a senior staff writer at Jezebel and a staff writer at Salon. She writes a weekly newsletter and co-hosts Dire Straights, a feminist podcast critiquing hetero love, sex, politics and culture. You can find more at tracyclarkflory.com.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 4th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Management Console now supports settings to control service and Region visibility - AWSAmazon CloudWatch adds visual agent configuration to the EC2 consoleAWS Announces Amazon Connect DecisionsAmazon Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring (now available in Preview)Introducing Amazon EC2 R8in and R8ib instancesAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryptionAmazon Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroupsAWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV downloadAWS KMS now tracks last usage of all KMS keysAWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 4.0AWS Marketplace Management Portal now supports bank account deletionAmazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents (Limited Preview)Amazon CloudFront now supports invalidation by cache tagIntroducing Amazon EC2 C8ine and M8ine instancesIdentifying security risks using AWS Cost and Usage Report dataAmazon Q Developer end-of-support announcementIssue with AWS Ops Wheel (CVE-2026-6911 and CVE-2026-6912Issues in tough library and tuftool CLI utilityCVE-2026-7191- Arbitrary Code Execution via Sandbox Bypass in QnABot on AWSIssue with FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP - MAC Address Validation Bypass and ICMP Echo Reply Integer UnderflowCVE-2026-7424 - Integer Underflow in DHCPv6 Sub-Option Parser in FreeRTOS-Plus-TCPIssue with FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP - IPv6 Router Advertisement Memory Safety Issues

AI agents are moving fast,  but the infrastructure behind them is still catching up. In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Paper Compute CEO Brian “B Dougie” Douglas to explore building telemetry for AI agents, open-source infrastructure, token economics, and what it takes to create developer tooling in the AI era. From local-first observability to agent runtimes and the future of AI workflows, this conversation dives into what's next for AI-powered development.Show highlights: (00:00) Open Source Trust Signal(00:16) Show Intro and Sponsor(01:07) What Paper Compute Builds(01:55) Telemetry for Agents Explained(04:10) Local First Data and Sharing(06:18) Second Time Founder Story(09:06) Token Costs and Pricing Psychology(14:20) Stereos VM and Safer Runtimes(20:34) Open Source Strategy and Vibe Coding(24:54) Whats Next and Wrap UpAbout Brian: Brian is the founder of the Paper Compute Company, a distributed systems primitives for AI agents.Brian previously founded Open Sauced, a company dedicated to increasing knowledge and insights of open-source communities. In 2024, Open Sauced joined the Linux Foundation, further solidifying Brian's commitment to advancing open-source initiatives. With a passion for open source, Brian has consistently supported and mentored new contributors through Open Sauced, empowering developers to excel in the open-source ecosystem.Previously, Brian also led Developer Advocacy at GitHub, where he fostered a community of early adopters through content creation showcasing the newest GitHub features. His experience spans across notable companies in the tech industry, including Netlify, where he worked as an advocate. Brian's dedication to open source extends beyond his professional endeavors. He currently hosts two podcasts Open Source Ready and The Secret Sauce: A podcast focusing on developer insights and experiences.Through these platforms, Brian continues to share valuable knowledge and promote open-source culture within the developer community.Links: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brianldouglasWebsite: https://b.dougie.devSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Anne Peshka is an author, speaker, and certified Core Energy Coach who helps people break free from the patterns that keep them stuck and create lives rooted in truth, connection, and purpose. As both an adoptee and a birth mother, Anne brings a rare and deeply personal perspective to conversations around identity, trauma, and healing.She is the author of Trauma Recycled, a raw and honest memoir about adoption, abuse, and rebuilding a life from the inside out. Through her work, including workshops and speaking, Anne creates spaces where people feel seen, heard, and empowered to rewrite their story, no matter where they started.Website: annepeshka.comMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 27th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports configuration of processors via AIIntroducing the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networkingAmazon EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keysAttributed Revenue Dashboard Now Available in AWS Partner CentralAWS Lambda functions can now mount Amazon S3 buckets as file systems with S3 FilesAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights introduces JOIN and sub-query commandsAWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java GAAmazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 InventoryAmazon S3 now supports five additional checksum algorithmsAWS Secrets Manager extends managed external secrets to MongoDB Atlas and Confluent CloudTrack Amazon Bedrock Costs by Caller Identity with IAM Principal-Based Cost AllocationTransforming FinOps with the Latest Amazon Q Cost CapabilitiesAurora Serverless: Faster performance, enhanced scaling, and still scales down to zeroFrom developer desks to the whole organization: Running Claude Cowork in Amazon BedrockGet to your first working agent in minutes: Announcing new features in Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAutomated network incident response with AWS DevOps AgentAccelerate development workflows with Amazon EBS Volume ClonesTroubleshooting Amazon S3 access denied errors using Kiro CLICVE-2026-6437 - Mount Option Injection in Amazon EFS CSI DriverCVE-2026-6550 - Key commitment policy bypass via shared key cache in AWS Encryption SDK for Python

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement rulesIntroducing Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instancesAmazon Quick now supports multi-account sign-in within the same browserAmazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in two additional AWS RegionsAWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloudAutomate AWS Cost Reporting with Scheduled Dashboard Email DeliveryIntroducing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon BedrockIntroducing Amazon Bio DiscoveryCVE-2026-5429 - Kiro IDE Webview Cross-Site Scripting via Workspace Color ThemeIssues with Amazon Athena ODBC DriverIssues with AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES)CVE-2026-5747 - Out-of-bounds Write in Firecracker virtio-pci Transport