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Just wanted to make a shoutout to Corey Quinn, who has a consultancy which literally works on lowering your excessive AWS bills. He also runs the most excellent

by SEJeff 8y ago

Just wanted to make a shoutout to Corey Quinn, who has a consultancy which literally works on lowering your excessive AWS bills. He also runs the most excellent Last Week in AWS newsletter https://lastweekinaws.com/ https://lastweekinaws.com/ and podcast Screaming in the Cloud: https://www.screaminginthecloud.com https://www.screaminginthecloud.com I've personally known Corey for 10+ years and he's a good dude, so if anyone is looking to lower their AWS bills, talk to Corey.

crescentfresh 8y ago
> literally works on lowering your excessive AWS bills these companies are a dime a dozen, no personal offense intended to yourself or this company.
- lathiat 8y ago
  The fabulous level of trolling and entertainment he offers on his twitter account however is priceless.
  - SEJeff 8y ago
    And both the newsletter + podcast are quite fantastic. He really is unrivaled in the space. If you use AWS, you should be keeping tabs on those things. Bonus points that they're free and amusing. I know him from back when I was helping maintain the Saltstack python config management tool[1]. He was a user and we were doing training on contributing code to salt. It turned out that I did teach him a thing or two and he did several contributions to salt[2]. That's literally it. [1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt https://github.com/saltstack/salt [2] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=quinnypig https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=quinnypig
mychael 8y ago
Your comment doesn't contribute to the discussion. It's more of an advertisement than a comment.
- SEJeff 8y ago
  I'm not affiliated with him whatsoever either fiscally or professionally. If someone is reading this article, they might suffer from the same problem. I figured it was worth sharing.
steeef 8y ago
I figured I'd see Quinn's name mentioned in the comments. He had a good Twitter thread a bit ago about the easiest things you can do to lower your bill: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1091041507342086144.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1091041507342086144.html (original Twitter link: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1091041507342086144 https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1091041507342086144)

by SEJeff 8y ago

crescentfresh 8y ago

> literally works on lowering your excessive AWS bills these companies are a dime a dozen, no personal offense intended to yourself or this company.

lathiat 8y ago
The fabulous level of trolling and entertainment he offers on his twitter account however is priceless.
- SEJeff 8y ago
  And both the newsletter + podcast are quite fantastic. He really is unrivaled in the space. If you use AWS, you should be keeping tabs on those things. Bonus points that they're free and amusing. I know him from back when I was helping maintain the Saltstack python config management tool[1]. He was a user and we were doing training on contributing code to salt. It turned out that I did teach him a thing or two and he did several contributions to salt[2]. That's literally it. [1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt https://github.com/saltstack/salt [2] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=quinnypig https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=quinnypig

mychael 8y ago

Your comment doesn't contribute to the discussion. It's more of an advertisement than a comment.

SEJeff 8y ago
I'm not affiliated with him whatsoever either fiscally or professionally. If someone is reading this article, they might suffer from the same problem. I figured it was worth sharing.

steeef 8y ago

I figured I'd see Quinn's name mentioned in the comments. He had a good Twitter thread a bit ago about the easiest things you can do to lower your bill: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1091041507342086144.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1091041507342086144.html (original Twitter link: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1091041507342086144 https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1091041507342086144)