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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What happens when cloud economics meets the messy reality of business, AI, and human behavior?Corey and J.R. Storment unpack why cloud cost management is less about math and more about psychology, the real difference between FinOps for AI vs. AI for FinOps, and why automation still struggles with edge cases (despite all the hype). Along the way, they explore multi-cloud complexity, the rise of consumption-based pricing, and how businesses are navigating massive, unpredictable spend across cloud, SaaS, and AI platforms.If you've ever wondered why your cloud bill feels like chaos, or how to actually get value from it, this episode pulls back the curtain.Show Highlights:(00:00) FinOps Royalty Reunion(03:06) Origin Stories and Naming FinOps(06:32) AI for FinOps vs FinOps for AI(11:05) Automation Hype and Human Psychology(22:16) Contracts Multi Cloud and Commitments(24:26) Context Beats Optimization(26:06) Trust and Billing Clarity(28:14) Focus Standard Flywheel(30:11) SaaS Coverage and Conformance(34:06) Contracts Multi-cloud and Wrap UpLinks: FinOps: https://www.finops.org/Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

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

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

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

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

This week on Screaming in the Cloud, Corey sits down with Chris Hill, CEO of Humble Pod, to talk about the messy, nuanced reality of AI in media. From secretly cloning Corey's voice for an ad using ElevenLabs (and almost getting away with it) to the growing tension between polished production and authentic content, they unpack what AI can actually do versus what it claims to do.They explore the shifting economics of podcasting, the rise of video-first formats, Netflix's entrance into the space, and why “good enough” production often beats expensive studio perfection. It's a candid conversation about trust, automation, creative integrity, and why sometimes the most dangerous AI use case is the one no one notices.Show Highlights:(00:00) The AI Voice Clone Ad Nobody Noticed(00:44) 700 Episodes In: Catching Up with Humble Pod's Chris Hill(01:16) New Studio, New Vibes: Building a Podcast Space in Tennessee(01:51) AI in Podcasting Workflows: Riverside, Editing Promises & Human Judgment(07:50) Authenticity vs Production Value + Duckbill Hiring & Product Shift(14:05) Renewals, churn, and why point solutions fail(14:15) The Doc Tools saga: building the wrong thing (and Disney lawyers)(15:15) Bahamas studio build: consulting where quality really matters(16:34) Gear talk & pro tips: teleprompters, cameras, and looking at the lens(18:50) Podcasting goes video-first: clips, discovery, TikTok, and the wrap-upAbout Chris Hill: Chris Hill is a Knoxville, TN native and founder of Humble Pod, where he helps brands, startups, and thought leaders develop, launch, and grow podcasts across the U.S. and beyond. He works with clients ranging from local Knoxville businesses to entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and around the world.Chris is the co-host and producer of Our Humble Beer Podcast and lectures on podcasting and marketing at the University of Tennessee. He earned his undergraduate degree in Marketing & Entrepreneurship from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and later received his MBA from King University.He currently serves as President of the American Marketing Association Knoxville chapter and enjoys supporting the local craft beer community, traveling internationally, and exploring the outdoors.Links: Humblepod: https://www.humblepod.com/Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

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

Eric Anderson, partner at VC firm Scale, talks about why coding agents changed software forever and why the AI bubble can't be avoided. Eric worked on Spot Instances at AWS and data products at Google before becoming a VC. He explains how companies can still compete against Anthropic and OpenAI by staying laser-focused instead of fighting on every front.Corey and Eric discuss why AWS didn't kill all startups even when they launched competing products, why the AI bubble can't be avoided when companies go from $1 billion to $7 billion in revenue in one year, and why the best AI products don't scream “AI” everywhere in their marketing.Show Highlights:(02:30) Building Spot Instances at AWS(07:41) Why Coding Agents Changed Everything(10:35) Agents Doing Code Review Now(13:53) Competing with Frontier Labs(17:05) Why AWS Didn't Kill All Startups(19:01) Finding the Right Front to Fight On(22:20) Why the Bubble Is Inevitable(23:36) AI Pricing Will Eventually Crash(26:33) Honeycomb's AI Done Right(28:04) Where to Find EricLinks: Scale: https://www.scalevp.com/Eric on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericmand/Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

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

Chase Douglas, CEO at Archodex, talks about AI security problems and why re:Invent has become a nightmare. Chase helps companies capture every AI interaction so they don't get in trouble with compliance. Corey and Chase discuss Shadow AI, why Corey runs Claude Code in an account called “Superfund,” and how re:Invent put metal spikes on benches so people couldn't sit down. They also talk about why AWS released fewer announcement than before, and why Chase is finally optimistic about AI coding tools after months of frustration.Show Highlights: (01:51) What Archodex Does(07:00) The Superfund Account for AI(08:19) Shadow AI Problem(11:41) What Happened at re:Invent (14:59) Sponsorship Costs at re:Invent(17:00) Metal Spikes on Benches(21:39) AWS Releases Declining (25:24) Why Chase Is Finally Optimistic About AI Coding(27:13) Code Review Changed with AI(31:22) Where to Find ChaseLinks: Archodex: https://archodex.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chasedouglas/Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

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

Alyss Noland, who works on Cloud Dev Ecosystem at Nvidia, is back on the show to talk about building software with AI when you're not a real developer. Alyss runs a program that gives AI startups access to Nvidia GPUs and uses AI tools herself to build production software at Nvidia. Corey and Alyss discuss using AI to help curate newsletters without actually writing them, why humans still need to check everything, and the weird reality of people developing relationships with chatbots. Show Highlights: (01:34) What Alyss Does at Nvidia(05:44) When AI First Worked for Corey(07:34) Building Internal Tools vs Using AI(10:39) Using AI to Help Write Last Week in AWS (13:43) DGX Cloud Innovation Lab (17:11) Building Production Software with AI (20:48) The Future of SEO (25:24) Using AI as a Writing Assistant (29:51) closing remarksLinks:Alyss's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssnoland/Alyss's Personal Website: https://dev.to/preciselyalyssSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

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

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 (

When your website stops working at 3 AM, you need to answer one question fast: Is it my code or is a big cloud provider having problems? Omri Sass from Datadog explains updog.ai, a tool that monitors whether major services like AWS, CloudFlare, and others are actually working. Instead of asking people to report problems like Down Detector does, updog uses real data from thousands of computers to detect when services go down. Omri shares why this took 6 years to build, how they process massive amounts of data with machine learning, and why cloud providers have been strangely upset about these tools existing.About Omri: Omri Sass is a Director of Product Management at Datadog, where he leads and supports a team of 25+ product managers driving initiatives across Bits AI SRE, Data Observability, Service Management, and most recently, the launch of updog.ai. Outside of work, Omri is an avid sci-fi reader, a dedicated yoga practitioner, and happily outmatched by his cat.Show Highlights:(02:12) What is Updog and How Does It Work(03:38) Why Knowing If It's a Global Problem Matters(04:01) The Problem With Testing Every Endpoint Yourself(05:52) How Datadog Discovered EC2 Outages From Their Own Systems(10:38) When AWS Regions Go Down and Cascade Failures(13:13) What Happens When Services Rebuild Completely(16:29) The Most Important Learning During a 3 AM Incident(20:11) Why This Took So Long to Build(23:40) When Datadog Going Down Isn't Critical Path(25:22) How They Picked Which AWS Services to Monitor(27:07) What Comes Next for Updog(30:11) Where to Find Omri and UpdogLinks: Datadog: datadoghq.comOmir's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omri-sass-65632a14/Sponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil, spent 8 years building Amazon's EFS file storage system, learning exactly why making cloud storage act like a hard drive always fails. Old programs need hard drives, but cloud storage doesn't work like hard drives—a problem that's existed for 20 years.Now Hunter's building Archil, which puts super-fast storage between programs and S3 so they can finally work together. Your programs think they're talking to a regular disk while your data lives safely in the cloud.Hunter explains how they're doing what others couldn't, why it costs less than Amazon's own solutions, and why file systems suddenly matter again in the AI era.Show Highlights:(01:37) What Archil Does and Why It Exists(02:26) Why Mounting S3 as a File System Has Always Failed(03:07) What Building EFS Taught Hunter(06:55) Using Fast SSDs as a Cache Layer for S3(09:45) Attaching Archil to Your Existing S3 Buckets(15:08) Why Archil Costs Less Than EBS When You Do the Math(17:56) What Happens If Amazon Builds This Feature(19:20) Competing With EBS Performance on GP3 Volumes(21:43) Raising $6.7 Million Without an AI Pitch(23:46) What Customers Get Wrong About Archil(28:07) Accessing Data Stored in Glacier Deep Archive(29:24) The Plan to Get Into the Linux Kernel (30:51) Where to Find HunterAbout Hunter Leath: Hunter is the founder and CEO of Archil, which transforms S3 buckets into infinite, local file systems that provide instant access to massive data sets. Prior to Archill, Hunter spent the last ten years in the cloud storage industry, including 8 years building Amazon's Elastic File System product and one year on Netflix's core storage team.Links:Hunter Leath on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hleath/Hunter Leath on X: https://x.com/jhleath/Archil's Website: https://archil.comSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

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

When AWS has a major outage, what actually happens behind the scenes? Ben Hartshorne, a principal engineer at Honeycomb, joins Corey Quinn to discuss a recent AWS outage and how they kept customer data safe even when their systems couldn't fully work. Ben explains why building services that expect things to break is the only way to survive these outages. Ben also shares how Honeycomb used its own tools to cut their AWS Lambda costs in half by tracking five different things in a spreadsheet and making small changes to all of them.About Ben Hartshorne: Ben has spent much of his career setting up monitoring systems for startups and now is thrilled to help the industry see a better way. He is always eager to find the right graph to understand a service and will look for every excuse to include a whiteboard in the discussion.Show highlights: (02:41)Two Stories About Cost Optimization(04:20) Cutting Lambda Costs by 50%(08:01) Surviving the AWS Outage(09:20) Preserving Customer Data During the Outage(13:08) Should You Leave AWS After an Outage?(15:09) Multi-Region Costs 10x More(18:10) Vendor Dependencies(22:06) How LaunchDarkly's SDK Handles Outages(24:40) Rate Limiting Yourself(29:00) How Much Instrumentation Is Too Much?(34:28) Where to Find BenLinks: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benhartshorne/GitHub: https://github.com/maplebedSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

R. Tyler Croy, a principal engineer at Scribd, joins Corey Quinn to explain what happens when simple tasks cost $100,000. Checking if files are damaged? $100K. Using newer S3 tools? Way too expensive. Normal solutions don't work anymore. Tyler shares how with this much data, you can't just throw money at the problem, but rather you have to engineer your way out.About R. Tyler: R. Tyler Croy leads infrastructure architecture at Scribd and has been an open source developer for over 14 years. His work spans the FreeBSD, Python, Ruby, Puppet, Jenkins, and Delta Lake communities. Under his leadership, Scribd's Infrastructure Engineering team built Delta Lake for Rust to support a wide variety of high performance data processing systems. That experience led to Tyler developing the next big iteration of storage architecture to power large-scale fulltext compute challenges facing the organization.Show Highlights:01:48 Scribd's 18-Year History04:00 One Document Becomes Billions of Files05:47 When Normal Physics Stop Working08:02 Why S3 Metadata Costs Too Much10:50 How AI Made Old Documents Valuable13:30 From 100 Billion to 100 Million Objects15:05 The Curse of Retail Pricing 19:17 How Data Scientists Create Growth21:18 De-Normalizing Data Problems25:29 Evolving Old Systems27:45 Billions Added Since Summer29:29 Underused S3 Features31:48 Where to Find TylerLinks: Scribd: https://tech.scribd.comMastodon:  https://hacky.town/@rtylerGitHub: https://github.com/rtylerSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 12th, with Corey Quinn. 

Corey Quinn sits down with Avery Pennarun, co-founder and CEO of Tailscale, for a deep dive into how the company is reinventing networking for the modern era. From finally making VPNs behave the way they should to tackling AI security with zero-click authentication, Avery shares candid insights on building infrastructure people actually love using, and love talking about.They get into everything: surviving 100% year-over-year growth, why running on two tailnets at once is pure chaos, and how Tailscale makes “secure by default” feel effortless. Plus, they dig into why FreeBSD firewalls needed some tough love, the uncomfortable truth behind POCs, and even the surprisingly useful trick of turning your Apple TV into an exit node.About Avery: Avery Pennarun is the co-founder and CEO of Tailscale, where he's redefining secure networking with a simple, Zero Trust approach. A veteran software engineer with experience ranging from startups to Google, he's known for turning complex systems into approachable, user-friendly tools. His contributions to projects like wvdial, bup, and sshuttle reflect his belief that great technology should be both powerful and easy to use. With a mix of technical depth and dry humor, Avery shares insights on modern networking, internet evolution, and the realities of scaling a startup.Highlights:(0:00) Introduction to Tailscale and Security(00:52) Sponsorship and Personal Experiences(02:07) Technical Deep Dive into Tail Scale(06:10) Challenges and Future of Tail Scale(22:45) Building the Tail Net's API(23:54) Connecting Cloud Providers with Tailscale(25:22) Tailscale as a Security Solution(26:44) Innovations and Future of TailscaleSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Most open source companies do the same thing. They take investor money, lock their best features behind paywalls, sell the company, and disappoint everyone. Grokability did something different.Jeremy Price, VP of Technology at Grokability talks with Corey Quinn about how they built a business that makes enough money without chasing endless growth. From why they use simple technology to how they run thousands of separate installations for customers, Jeremy explains what happens when you care more about making a good product than explosive growth.Show Highlights: (00:51) Welcoming Jeremy Price from Grokability(03:34) How Snipe-IT Started With a Bet(05:30) Paying for Software Can Change Everything(07:40) When AWS Competes With Open Source(10:10) Boring Businesses Make Money(15:30) Balancing Hosting Needs and Product Quality(18:00) Pricing That Avoids Big Customer Problems(21:06) Better Than a Google Sheet(27:02) The Psychology of Buying(29:33) Where to Find Jeremy and GrokabilityLinks: https://jermops.com/about/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremygprice/https://snipeitapp.com/companySponsored by: duckbillhq.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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