Corey Quinn, Author at Duckbill
AWS Finally Fixes Its Free Tier Problem| Duckbill
For eight years, I've watched the same story play out: excited newcomers sign up for AWS thinking they have a free account, only to get blindsided by unexpected charges.| Duckbill
Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used arithmetic (the secret weapon of Cloud Finance) to determine that this was roughly $300,000 per day on AWS, and suddenly everyone with a social media account became a cloud economics expert. The post Figma’s $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn’t the Scandal You Think It Is appeared first on The Duckbill...| The Duckbill Group
In short: Amazon's Aurora DSQL is a technical marvel, but its pricing is absolutely baffling. And I mean just that. They're not gouging customers. It's not unfair. How they arrived at their pricing makes sense given the product's development constraints (presumably including things such as "thou shalt not lose us our corporate ass on this service, as we cannot make it up in volume"). It's just monumentally confusing.| The Duckbill Group
There’s a continuum, with “Innovation” on one end and “Optimization” on the other. Where are you? The post The Innovation–Optimization Continuum appeared first on The Duckbill Group.| The Duckbill Group
Something strange started happening at re:Invent last year: new EC2 instances started launching without Reserved Instance support. The post EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated appeared first on The Duckbill Group.| The Duckbill Group
Yesterday, AWS lobbed a bit of a water balloon into my inbox.… The post AWS Tightens the Reins: New AWS SaaS Marketplace Rules Will Impact Your Commitments appeared first on The Duckbill Group.| The Duckbill Group
In a move that's equal parts predictable and surprising, AWS has decided to make their Valkey-based services significantly cheaper than their Redis counterparts. The post AWS’s Valkey Play: When a Fork Becomes a Price Cut appeared first on The Duckbill Group.| The Duckbill Group
