3 posts tagged “corey-quinn”
2025
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong (via) Absurdly useful roundup from Corey Quinn of AWS changes you may have missed that can materially affect your architectural decisions about how you use their services.
A few that stood out to me:
- EC2 instances can now live-migrate between physical hosts, and can have their security groups, IAM roles and EBS volumes modified without a restart. They now charge by the second; they used to round up to the hour.
- S3 Glacier restore fees are now fast and predictably priced.
- AWS Lambdas can now run containers, execute for up to 15 minutes, use up to 10GB of RAM and request 10GB of /tmp storage.
Also this note on AWS's previously legendary resistance to shutting things down:
While deprecations remain rare, they’re definitely on the rise; if an AWS service sounds relatively niche or goofy, consider your exodus plan before building atop it.
Screaming in the Cloud: AI’s Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You. I recorded this podcast conversation with Corey Quinn a few weeks ago:
On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn talks with Simon Willison, founder of Datasette and creator of LLM CLI about AI’s realities versus the hype. They dive into Simon’s “lethal trifecta” of AI security risks, his prediction of a major breach within six months, and real-world use cases of his open source tools, from investigative journalism to OSINT sleuthing. Simon shares grounded insights on coding with AI, the real environmental impact, AGI skepticism, and why human expertise still matters. A candid, hype-free take from someone who truly knows the space.
This was a really fun conversation - very high energy and we covered a lot of different topics. It's about a lot more than just LLM security.
2021
This teaches us that—when it’s a big enough deal—Amazon will lie to us. And coming from the company that runs the production infrastructure for our companies, stores our data, and has been granted an outsized position of trust based upon having earned it over 15 years, this is a nightmare.