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Chief Cloud Economist at @DuckbillGroup. Father to @QuinnyPiglet & @theMunchQuinn. he/him Get my snarky take on AWS news: https://t.co/aGVMZnGzSV

May 11, 2021, 20 tweets

Take an @awscloud survey and receive $50 in credits? That'll pay for the better part of a Managed NAT Gateway! It's threadin' time...

It's never reassuring when your cloud provider greets you with a "who're you, again?"

"How familiar with our nonsense are you?"

Oh so very, very familiar.

“Customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied, even when they report being happy and business is great.” — Jeff Bezos

If you're going to ask me a question, the least I can do is answer honestly.

Ever notice that the @awscloud bill only ever goes one direction?

I have used all of these and oh so many more over the past three months. I will choose to rep Route 53.

I know how Thought Leadership works.

Tell me you phoned in your survey creation without telling me you phoned in your survey creation.

I do love the Cognito team members I've met, but I'm sorry: your service is Quite Bad. Real friends stab you in the front.

If I didn't want to talk to @awscloud people I've made some terrible career decisions.

We're 10-12ish. It's hard to keep track some days.

"You have no idea how services companies work, do you..."

I don't know how, but somehow I read this question as condescending.

My role is always "Other." It's the only thing that makes sense / is honest.

I've not heard of Render before. This is a weird marketing campaign for them but I dig it.

I guess *technically* I have final say, but I don't exactly hire people here to overrule their judgement, y'know?

They have so many options for what kind of company I am it doesn't fit in a screenshot. "Media and Entertainment" but almost certainly not the kind they're thinking of.

I could have sworn I was already on their Customer Council, but sure; I'll sign up again so I can get two meals at the events.

And it blew me out to the customer council and ended the survey.
I better get my $50 gift card!

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