Cloud Economics and AWS shitposting, which are the same thing.
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Corey Quinn retweeted
“JESUS CHRIST SARAH, YOU TALKED ABOUT PHASE 5 WHEN WE’RE STILL IN PHASE 4!”
Sam Altman is running damage control at the highest level, trying to paint three things:
✅“We don’t want public money to bail us out.”
❌But: they do want the government to pour billions into national AI infrastructure — which just happens to directly benefit them as buyers, suppliers, or integrators.
✅“We're growing in a healthy and sustainable way.”
❌But also: they need $1.4 trillion by 2032 (!) — and the revenue math is still a leap of faith.
✅“If we fail, that's fine, the market will correct.”
❌But also: they’re building the new backbone of modern civilization. Wait, what?
@sama doesn’t want a backstop. He wants to be the backbone.
It’s more subtle, more brilliant — and maybe more dangerous. Because it’s not just about whether OpenAI fails. It’s about designing an ecosystem where their failure = systemic failure.
And then yes, the government will have to intervene. Not officially — but in practice, the backstop becomes unavoidable.
That’s the game being played.
And the world is watching, while the chips burn and the data centers whisper in 400 volts:
“Build with us… or be left behind.”
Holy crap
Kubernetes migration almost killed our startup.
Where we were:
- 8 EC2 instances
- Ansible for deploys
- Boring but working
- $1200/month AWS bill
Why we migrated:
- New investor wanted 'cloud-native'
- Engineers wanted K8s experience
- Competitors were using it
- Seemed like the future
6 months later:
- 3 engineers spending full-time on K8s
- AWS bill at $4500/month
- Deploys took longer than before
- More outages, not fewer
- Product development stalled
We rolled back:
- Moved to ECS Fargate
- 2 week migration
- Back to $1800/month
- Engineers back on features
K8s is amazing for scale. We weren't at scale. Technology should solve problems you actually have.
Has anyone heard anything about "chaos-2," the forbidden @awscloud service that only shows up during outages?
I asked my TAM about it, they got really quiet, and now their email address bounces???
MTG and AWS go together like chocolate and peanut butter and a kitchen fire.
AWS + Magic: the Gathering? Yes, this is real!
We’re hosting a MTG night at #AWSreInvent - tournament for seasoned players & a learn to play zone for beginners.
Jon and I will see you there - search for ACT004 in the catalog
#MagicTheGathering #AWS @AWSEvents
When it’s your first day on the job at @SFBART and you lied on your resume:
My hobby: making Claude repeatedly review code for “political bias” until it goes insane and uninstalls itself.
I think we all know the @NewYorker’s position on reproductive rights, because they support whatever abortion of a style guide gave rise to this:
Corey Quinn retweeted
New side quest:
yeet
yeet deploys your application using AI inference.
yeet has no arguments and works on the current directory
The yoten command finds where it was yeeted and delivers the facts about where the slop was slapped and whether is it fire or not.
Corey Quinn retweeted
🎯 @QuinnyPig
"Increasingly we're deploying things to platforms not based on their merits, but rather based upon what the LLM selects...
AWS spent two decades building the most powerful cloud platform in the world. They may spend the next two watching it become irrelevant to anyone who wasn't already bought in."
GenZ isn't going to put up with the pain and misery of deploying to AWS - latest from @QuinnyPig here on El Reg theregister.com/2025/11/04/a…
Amazon: AI AI AI AI AI AI AI--wait no not like that.
Pretty rich for *Amazon* to blame others for "a degraded shopping experience."
I have struck again.
GenZ isn't going to put up with the pain and misery of deploying to AWS - latest from @QuinnyPig here on El Reg theregister.com/2025/11/04/a…
Corey Quinn retweeted
Putting easter eggs in the Cloudflare blog subtle enough to make readers feel insane if they find them
Corey Quinn retweeted
companies pay planetscale to manage their database and provide reliable infrastructure
companies pay aws to manage their xxx and provide reliablity
companies pay hetzner to provide a server and a guy that can press on the power button in the data centre if you want a restart
I cannot possibly dunk on this any harder than just reading it verbatim.
In our next episode of re:Post Live, we’ll be diving deep into Gen AI for Advertising – Decoding the Art of the Possible with Agentic AI!
Tuesday, November 4th at 2:00pm PST: twitch.tv/aws.
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