Podcast appearances and mentions of corey quinn

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

Amik is a foster care alum and adoptee. She is the author of “Healing Hurts Like Hell; A Survival Through Severe Childhood Trauma” . Her book is available on Amazon.com.Music by Corey Quinn

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

What happens when you stop trying to serve everyone, and start focusing on the right customers?In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with Corey Quinn (yes, really) to talk about specialization, scaling service businesses, and the power of saying no. From growing a digital agency from $20M to $200M to escaping founder-led sales, this conversation dives into practical lessons for founders, marketers, and leaders looking to scale with intention.Show highlights: (00:00) Specialization Mindset(00:21) Show Intro and Sponsor(01:18) Two Corey Quinns(02:39) Guest Background and Book(04:41) Scaling a Service Agency(06:28) Inbound Limits and Outbound Shift(10:21) Cookie Gifting Breakthrough(12:12) Making Gifting Work(19:09) Retention Through Specialization(25:20) Founder Bottlenecks and Wrap UpLinks: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyquinn/Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Alex Sloan (he/they), is a Transracial, Transgender and Nonbinary human, adopted from La Chorrera, Panama. He was adopted as an infant by a single white woman, who adopted another child from Panama 7 years prior, (who he later found out was his biological cousin through DNA testing). After his adoption was finalized at six months old, Alex was then moved overseas with his adoptive family to Okinawa, Japan, until 2006, when his family PCS'd (Permanent Change of Station) moved to an American Air Force base in Aviano, Italy. Alex was in Italy until he graduated High School and was accepted to Northern Arizona University, in 2012. Alex graduated and obtained a Bachelors degree in Social Work and a minor in Psychology and Sociology. Alex moved to Portland, OR, in 2023, for new opportunities a safer environment for his queerness, and outside the heat of Arizona!. Alex currently works at a non-profit, as a Case Manager Supervisor, providing case management services to adults who experience Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Alex is excited to continue to be involved in the adoptee community and share his story. https://www.bipocadoptees.orgMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April, 13th with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Certificate Manager now supports native certificate searchAmazon S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicateAmazon Bedrock now offers Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview)Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compressionAWS Secrets Manager console now supports custom input for AWS KMS keysAmazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM user and roleAmazon S3 starts rolling out new security best practice to new and existing buckets by defaultIntroducing AI-Powered Cost Analysis in AWS Cost ExplorerLaunching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systemsThe future of managing agents at scale: AWS Agent Registry now in previewUnderstanding Amazon Bedrock model lifecycleIntroducing OpenTelemetry & PromQL support in Amazon CloudWatch

Lilly Anspach is an artist, writer, and adoptee advocate whose work explores healing, identity, and truth-telling. She is the founder of Center to Shape, a creative healing initiative, and The Yuri Group, a leadership and organizational consulting practice. Through art, writing, and community engagement, Lilly examines the complexities of adoption, belonging, and personal transformation. She is also involved with Adoptees for Family Preservation, where she works to elevate first mother voices and advocate for family preservation and ethical adoption practices.https://www.adopteesffp.orgMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 6th, with Corey Quinn. Links: Announcing Amazon RDS for Oracle on AWS OutpostsAWS Direct Connect now supports AWS CloudFormationAWS Service Availability UpdatesAmazon S3 Vectors expands to 17 additional AWS RegionsAmazon CloudFront now supports SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookiesAmazon CloudWatch now supports OpenTelemetry metrics in public previewAnnouncing compute-optimized instance bundles for Amazon LightsailAnnouncing managed daemon support for Amazon ECS Managed InstancesLeverage Agentic AI for Autonomous Incident Response with AWS DevOps AgentNavigating the NGINX Ingress retirement: A practical guide to migration on AWSOptimizing data transfer costs when using AWS Network Load BalancerAWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing now generally available

Just because you can build it doesn't mean you should. In this episode, Ahmed Bebars, Principal Engineer at The New York Times, joins Corey Quinn to talk about real-world cloud decisions, Kubernetes complexity, and the constant trade-off between building your own solutions and buying existing ones. From home labs to enterprise architecture, they unpack what actually works, and what engineers often get wrong.Show Highlights: (00:19) Intro(01:09) From Imposter Syndrome(06:34) Honest Community Feedback(09:29) EKS Versus ECS Debate(21:32) Home Lab Reality Check(22:40) Build vs Buy Long Game(28:04) Focus on Core Business(34:35) Uptime Tradeoffs and Standards(39:41) Networking and IPv6 Debate(41:28) Wrap Up and Where to FindLinks:Ahmed's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedbebarsSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

After losing her son, to a devastating unnecessary adoption Renee Gelin discovered her purpose to help other mothers avoid unnecessarily separating from their newborns. Renee started speaking to other expectant mothers and realized that many of the reasons that they were considering adoption were similar to hers – temporary. She started explaining the lifelong trauma that maternal separation causes both mothers and their newborns and the mothers listened. The adoption community began to see moms with their babies and began to support Renee's efforts of family preservation. Others online began to direct mothers considering adoption to speak with Renee and the concept of Saving Our Sisters became a reality. Renee married her son's father and together they parent their daughters in Florida.https://savingoursistersadoption.orgRecommended Resources: https://thefamilypreservationproject.com https://untanglingourroots.org https://concernedunitedbirthparents.orgMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 30th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free TierAmazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clustersAWS Lambda increases the file descriptor limit to 4,096 for functions running on Lambda Managed InstancesThe AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatic query caching with ValkeyAnnouncing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in secondsEnhancing auto scaling resilience by tracking worker utilization metricsAmazon CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans: new features and expanded capabilitiesIAM policy types: How and when to use themPreparing for agentic AI: A financial services approach

Sullivan Summer is an independent scholar, critic, essayist, poet, podcaster, and adoptee rights advocate. Her work across genres has been published in popular, literary, and academic outlets, and her pop culture hot takes and author interviews can be heard on the Adoption Pop!, Adoptees Off Script, and New Books Network podcasts. Her chapbook, Performance Anxiety, was published in 2025 by Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, and she is a 2025 "Best of the Net" anthology nominee. When not reading, writing, and podcasting about reading and writing, you can find her leading history-based reading groups at Brooklyn's Center for Fiction, and engaging with visitors to The New York Historical, the City's oldest museum, where she is a Docent. You can find Sullivan at her website, on Instagram, and on Substack. Adoptees for Family Preservationhttps://onadoption.netMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 23rd, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally availableAmazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data to Amazon S3AWS CDK Mixins is now generally availableAWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports RustAmazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log ingestion using HTTP-based protocolAWS Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadataExpanding the BOX Program to Business Consulting and Advisory PartnersTwenty years of Amazon S3 and building what's nextSynchronizing a Backup on-premises Db2 Server with Amazon RDS for Db2AWS and NVIDIA deepen strategic collaboration to accelerate AI from pilot to productionMigrate from Amazon Nova 1 to Amazon Nova 2 on Amazon BedrockEssential security controls to prevent unauthorized account removal in AWS OrganizationsDemystifying Amazon VPC peering chargesAWS and Others Invest $12.5M to Defend the Open Source Ecosystem from AI ThreatsAmazon threat intelligence teams identify Interlock ransomware campaign targeting enterprise firewalls20 years of Amazon S3: A storage professional's journey to AWS HeroCVE-2026-4270 - AWS API MCP File Access Restriction BypassCVE-2026-4269 - Improper S3 ownership verification in Bedrock AgentCore Starter ToolkitArbitrary code execution via crafted project files in Kiro IDECVE-2026-4428: Issues with AWS-LC - CRL Distribution Point Scope Check Logic Error

Lora K. Joy/Lora Alegria is a returning guest.Lora is a domestic, same race adoptee who is fully estranged from her adoptive family and reunited with both maternal and paternal biological family. In 2022, she legally changed her name back to her birth name and Lora's biological mom reclaimed her through an adult adoption. Lora has self-published 3 illustrated books and a blog at www.myadopteetruth.com. She also co-led the publishing of the adoptee anthology The Flourish Experience.Lora is the Secretary of Adoptees for Family Preservation (AFFP), a nonprofit organization committed to raising awareness of adoption industry practices. Lora co-leads a peer support group on estrangement through Adoption Knowledge Affiliates. And she is a Producer for the Adoptees On podcast.Resources: https://www.adoptionknowledge.org/peer-support-groups.htmlMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 16th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces increased query concurrency and API limitsIntroducing Amazon Connect Health, Agentic AI Built for HealthcareAmazon Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally availableAWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflowsDatabase Savings Plans now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune AnalyticsAWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysisAWS Elastic Beanstalk launches Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logsMulti-party approval now supports approval team baseliningAWS announces pricing for VPC Encryption ControlsThe Hidden Price Tag: Uncovering Hidden Costs in Cloud Architectures with the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Dr. Zoe Shaw is a licensed psychotherapist, author, speaker, podcast host, relationships coach and fitness lover. She is passionate about helping women who struggle in difficult relationships, especially that sometimes difficult relationship with themselves, overcome complex shame and co-dependency. After 15 years in traditional psychotherapy practice, Dr. Zoe jumped off the couch and now helps women using a different modality with a mix of virtual therapy, coaching services and programs, through a lens of psychology, faith and a dash of feminism.Dr. Zoe is the author of the Ask Dr. Zoe Column in the Grit and Grace Project women's magazine and the books, A Year Of Self Care and Stronger In The Difficult Places released by Penguin Randomhouse Waterbrook. She has been featured in the OWN documentary series UNLOCKED, abd published in Oprahmag.com, Recovery Today magazine, Forbes and Today.com. She writes about helping women overcome shame and co-dependency. You can find her in the media on Instagram: @Drzoeshaw and in most social places at the handle DrZoeShaw.https://drzoeshaw.comMusic by Corey Quinn

In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, host Corey Quinn sits down with Roi Lipman, CTO and co-founder of Falco DB, to unpack the evolving role of graph databases in a world overflowing with data stores. Roi shares his journey from building RedisGraph at Redis to spinning it out into Falco DB, along with his enduring love of the C programming language (dad jokes included). The conversation explores why graph databases remain niche, but powerful, especially for pathfinding problems like supply chains and access management, how vector search became a feature rather than a standalone database, and what AI-assisted development means for modern engineering. Along the way, they tackle open source sustainability, Rust rewrites, AI-generated pull request chaos, and the looming question of where the next generation of senior engineers will come from.Highlights: (00:00) C Language(00:27) Welcome(01:18) Database Landscape Overview(03:17) Why Graph Databases Matter(07:25) AI Built Apps and Data Choices(10:29) How FalcoDB Fits In(12:20) Vector Search as a Feature(16:48) FalcoDB Origin Story(19:54) Open Source Business and Rust Rewrite(25:23) Toy Graph Problems and Closing ThoughtsSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Dani Janae is a poet and journalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has been published by Longleaf Review, SWWIM, Palette Poetry, and others. Her debut collection of poetry, Hound Triptych, will be published by Sundress Publications in the Spring of 2026. She lives in South Carolina. When she is not writing she enjoys having intimate conversations with the things that puzzle and delight her, admiring spiders, watching horror movies, and hunting for figs. https://danijanae.comMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 2nd, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora DSQL launches Playground for interactive database exploration Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless ReservationsAmazon S3 now provides AWS source region information in server access logs AWS Compute Optimizer now applies AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots created during automationAWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java now available in Developer PreviewAWS Trusted Advisor now delivers more accurate unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer6,000 AWS accounts, three people, one platform: Lessons learnedPetabyte-Scale Cost Optimization: How a Video Hosting Platform Saved 70% on S3Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference Migrate Amazon EC2 to ECS Express Mode using Kiro CLI and MCP servers AI-augmented threat actor accesses FortiGate devices at scaleAWS posts “correct the record” piece on AI bot outage

Abbi Johnson is a natural mother who didn't get to raise her first child. She was sent to the Liberty GodParent Maternity Home in Lynchburg, VA in 2008 and at the age of 17 was coerced into relinquishing her son.In March of 2023 she created her IG and TikTok accounts @voicelessbirthmother to begin sharing her story.In 2025, Abbi collaborated with journalist T.J. Raphael on the investigative podcast Liberty Lost, which aired in the summer of 2025 and examined the realities of maternity homes and adoption practices.Resources: https://wondery.com › shows › liberty-lostMusic by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 23rd, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLinkAWS CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigueAmazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instancesAnnouncing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelinesClaude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon BedrockKiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAmazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now availableIntroducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a RegionMigrating from AWS App Runner to Amazon ECS Express ModeIntroducing Agent Plugins for AWSBuild unified intelligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreReduce unexpected AWS costs: Tracing AWS billing charges with log correlation techniques

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in additional AWS RegionsAmazon Bedrock adds support for six fully-managed open weights modelsAWS Config now supports 30 new resource typesAnnouncing new Amazon EC2 general purpose M8azn instancesAWS Network Firewall announces new price reductionsAmazon S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable APIAmazon Athena adds 1-minute reservations and new capacity control featuresBuilding fault-tolerant applications with AWS Lambda durable functions Simplify cross-account stream processing with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDBAutomated Reasoning checks rewriting chatbot reference implementationMastering Amazon Bedrock throttling and service availability: A comprehensive guideReservoir computing on an analog Rydberg-atom quantum computer

Haley Radke is a Canadian domestic adoptee, the founder of Haley Radke Media, Inc., and host of Adoptees On, one of the most successful and longest-running adoption-related podcasts in the world, with over 1.5 million downloads globally. Haley's commitment to centering adoptee stories has made her a sought-after expert within the field of adoption, and within the realm of podcast storytelling more broadly. Her project-in-progress, On Adoption, is investigating adoption's impact on adoptees and birth/first parents. You can find her at adopteeson.com, adoptionpop.com and on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.Music by Corey Quinn

Apply to Work With Tier 11: https://www.tiereleven.com/apply-now If your campaigns aren't scaling as you'd like and CPMs keep rising, it's time to refresh your social media marketing strategy. In today's episode, we explain in detail why creative diversification is the key to succeeding with Meta ads in 2026 and beyond. We discuss how to break free from old, hacky methods like the Michigan Method and explain how the Meta algorithm is designed to do the heavy lifting, if you let it. We talk about the importance of running multiple, varied ads to speak to different segments of your audience and provide real examples of how this works in practice.If you want to know how to evolve your approach, increase engagement, and set up campaigns that actually scale, you won't want to miss this one. You'll understand why "one-size-fits-all" advertising no longer cuts it and what to do instead.In This Episode:- How Facebook ads have evolved over time- Creative diversification explained- How to create different ICPs for Meta ads- Designing the right creative angle for each audience- Looking for ad hacks vs developing a strong brand- Final thoughts on outdated advertising strategiesMentioned in the Episode:Creative Diversification Playbook: https://perpetualtraffic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Creative-Diversification-Playbook-Practitioner-Guidance.pdf Meta's Ad Creative Guidelines: https://web.facebook.com/business/m/small-business/creative-differentiation?_rdc=1&_rdr# Previous episode on the Michigan Method: https://perpetualtraffic.com/podcast/scale-your-facebook-ad-campaign/ Previous episode with Corey Quinn: https://perpetualtraffic.com/podcast/episode-721-super-secret-formula-corey-quinn-scaled-scorpion-agency-10m-to-200m/ Listen to This Episode on Your Favorite Podcast Channel:Follow and listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/perpetual-traffic/id1022441491 Follow and listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/59lhtIWHw1XXsRmT5HBAuK Subscribe and watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@perpetual_traffic?sub_confirmation=1We Appreciate Your Support!Visit our website: https://perpetualtraffic.com/ Follow us on X: https://x.com/perpetualtraf Connect with Ralph...

Steffe Harwood is a same race domestic adoptee, quilter, designer, artist, (unlicensed) architect, disc golfer, and backpacker (like camping). She likes to think that she is a renaissance woman, a woman of many talents. Steffe loves to make stuff. In her free time she does a lot of volunteer work with kids teaching them design and architecture, volunteering in the forest preserve, and with Disc Golf Chicago to bring the sport to more folks in the city. Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 9th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Change the server-side encryption type of Amazon S3 objectsAnnouncing memory-optimized instance bundles for Amazon LightsailAmazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a databaseAWS Multi-party approval now requires one-time password verification for votingAWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation barStructured outputs now available in Amazon BedrockAmazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access and application useTrigger AWS Lambda functions from Amazon RDS for SQL Server database eventsAmazon CloudFront now supports mTLS authentication to originsBevar Ukraine: Empowering Ukrainian refugees with AI-powered support on AWSSecurity Findings in SageMaker Python SDK

Sara Kajder is a same race, domestic adoptee from a closed system who reached midlife before starting on the journey which has gifted her the opportunity to reunite with some members of her biological family. She is a writer and English professor who resides in Athens, GA.Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 2nd, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Network Firewall now supports GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filteringMore room to build: serverless services now support payloads up to 1 MBIntroducing pre-warming for Amazon Keyspaces tablesManaging IP address exhaustion for Amazon RDS ProxyStrategies for upgrading Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL from version 13File integrity monitoring with AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Security Lake

Mike McQuaid, Project Leader of Homebrew, joins Corey Quinn to share how a package manager conceived in a London pub became essential for 10 million Mac users. Homebrew lets you install software with one command instead of downloading files and clicking through installers, maintained by just 30 people who each get $300 a month.Mike shares the origin story from a drunken conversation about package management, explains how Homebrew Bundle can set up a new Mac with one command, and why Homebrew refuses to package software with fake open source licenses like Terraform's new versions.Show Highlights:(01:44) Why Homebrew Works on Linux(04:02) The Curl Bash Security Problem(05:02) Homebrew Was Conceived in a London Pub(06:42) Apps That Auto-Update Four Times a Day(08:43) Brew Bundle(14:00) Why Homebrew Auto-Updates Itself(18:18) Homebrew Maintainers Get $300 a Month(22:19) The Brew Doctor Command(29:10) Why Homebrew Doesn't Package Fake Open Source(32:05) Open Source Is Not a Career(35:27) When Someone Blamed Homebrew for Breaking Their Business(37:39) Auto-Update Options for Homebrew(39:40) Where to Find MikeLinks:Website: https://mikemcquaid.comHomebrew: https://brew.shGitHub: https://github.com/homebrewSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Tammy Murphy is a returning guest.Tammy is a same race domestic Black adoptee. She has immersed herself in the adoption community and has become a content creator as a writer with a focus on adoption and healing. Tammy is a 3x volunteer for in person adoption community conferences and plans to start a coaching business next year. She recently became an adoption attuned certified coach through GIFT (Growing Intentional Families Together).Instagram: @Comingoutthatfogisamutha Music by Corey Quinn

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 26th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS on Customer Choice & MulticloudAWS Adds Policy Details to Access Denied ErrorsAmazon ECR Cross-Repository Layer SharingAmazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments (

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 20th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Unanchored ACCOUNT_ID webhook filters for CodeBuildAmazon EBS now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hoursAWS Databases are now available on v0 by VercelAWS Lambda announces cross-account access for DynamoDB StreamsEnhanced Transactions view now available in AWS Billing ConsoleAWS Data Exports adds granular operation visibility for Amazon Bedrock model usageAmazon EC2 X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are generally availableOpening the AWS European Sovereign CloudAWS Organizations now supports upgrade rollout policy for Aurora and RDSProvision Oracle Database@AWS stack using AWS CloudFormationCLI v1 Maintenance Mode AnnouncementCVE-2026-0830: Command Injection in Kiro GitLab Merge Request Helper

15 years ago, when we started The Cloudcast the definition of cloud was pretty clear cut. But now in 2026, the rules are all different and a new era of Cloud is upon us. Let's explore what the next generation might provide. SHOW: 994SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #994 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTESAWS in 2026: The year of proving they still know how to operate (This Week in AWS)WHAT IS AND ISN'T CLOUD IN 2026?Cloud isn't a single companyCloud isn't just public cloudA CIA cloud isn't a Gov cloud isn't your Enterprise CloudMulti-cloud is a real thing that needs technologyGoogle, the people that invented “cloud” are a real company in cloudDefining cloud by purity, or IaaS/PaaS/SaaS terms doesn't really matterDoes data locality matter more in an AI-Cloud era?Do we begin to see price wars over the core Cloud 1.0 primitives?Are we in the 9th inning of Cloud, and the 1st inning of what's next? AI has replaced SaaS in immediacy, so does that have impact on Cloud services? Does the lack of application portfolio finally come back to bite AWS? Can niche cloud services emerge (e.g. is Vercel another Digital Ocean, or something unique?)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod