Hey @jesse_derose we should do a Twitter Spaces about what it means to be a Cloud Economist.

After all...
I am the very model of a modern Cloud Economist
I’ve seen pricing stored in CSV, Parquet and in a JSON list
I’ve walked the booths of re:Invent, and I know services historical
From SQS to EKS, RDS including Oracle
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters more contractual,
Both PPAs and EDPs, multi-cloud and all-in fanatical
About data transfer pricing I'm spitting figures fast and furious,
Hmmm... furious... furious... Aha!
While cross-AZ is bad enough, managed NAT Gateways are usurious
I'm very good at sniffing out that wasteful infra smell;
Some days I just use Cost Explorer; others Microsoft Excel:
In short, in architectures both SaaS and 3-tier generalist
I am the very model of a modern Cloud Economist.
I know the service history, from Beanstalk to S3;
I've met the sole remaining customer still using SimpleDB,
They say I cut the bill, but nay--I get it living where it should,
You might think I'm spouting nonsense but I leave that to Dr. Wood.

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2 Nov
So a less-snarky thread about why you should consider working at The @DuckbillGroup as a Cloud Economist.

Because if you fit the role, you definitely have other options...

duckbillgroup.com/careers/
First and most key: we want people to succeed here. That means we act like it, starting with the interview. We don't play games – we interview for strengths rather than the absence of weaknesses. aka "nobody will beat you up about things you're not great at."
If you're working more than 40 hours it's a rarity and we should do something about it. We're fixing AWS bills, not SOME NONSENSE HERE. You aren't your job.

Most of us are parents ourselves; absolutely nothing we do here is more important than our lives.
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In order to help hire some of you (sales and cloud economics roles currently open!), it's me: the Worst Employee as imagined by your company's HR department and resulting policies.
duckbillgroup.com/careers/#open-…
I'm just the right blend of malicious idiot that I should be walked out as soon as I resign; I clearly didn't think to steal any company data BEFORE I resigned.
I'm simultaneously trusted with root in production and not $20 of company money.
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Hello, and welcome to our company's oh-so-very-shitty Security Awareness Training. I'm Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn of the Duckbill Group, and I'll be delivering this training for you because I was absolutely NOT the lowest bidder for a change.
The whole point of security awareness is to protect company information. That's what they say, anyway. Here in reality we're going to reference back to the things I spew at you rapid fire and blame you for our institutional shortcomings once we get breached.
Confidentiality is important. Assume that people will read what you write. I know, it's a heavy lift for some of you who haven't figured out that the failure mode of "clever on Twitter" is "being a huge asshole," but pretend it'll be read.
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27 Oct
All right, Twitter; time to kick the @awscloud tires on these new Graviton2 Lambda functions.
Now, @alex_casalboni has already done the heavy lifting for me with this dingus. github.com/alexcasalboni/…

It supports the new runtimes even!
I'll deploy it through the Serverless Application Repository, meaning I'm now a full third of that thing's customer base for October.
Read 15 tweets
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A second CloudTrail management trail that you never look at.
A developer advocate who can't pass PR certification.
CodeCommit.
Read 4 tweets
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I coulda sworn PIP 15 was an Amazon thing.
Ce n’est pas une PIP.

viamaven.com/blog/amazon-pi…
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