Eric Pullen

This is perfection. HBD to my favorite current boss @quinnypig.com

Ever since I started working at @duckbillgroup.com, I've had a new appreciation anytime I see a cute baby platypus.

Ruh-roh 😳

Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities - Last Week in AWS Blog Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief. To break it down into its simplest form: A hacker submitted a PR. It got merged. It told Amazon Q to nuke your computer and…

🚨 Amazon Q shipped with a self-destruct button, and we're not joking.

A hacker injected a prompt telling Q to wipe computers and delete AWS resources. Amazon shipped it to 950k users.

Full story: lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-q-now-with-helpful-ai-powered-self-destruct-capabilities/

Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used ...

“$110M a year on AWS? I could do it for half!”

Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates.

Sit down.

www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...

Anker SOLIX F3800 Plus Portable Power Station Unprecedented Solar: Max. 3,200W solar input with dual 11-165V MPPT controllers. Gas Generator Charging: Compatible with 240V gas generators (6,000W bypass

Good deals right now for prime day I think. This is the one we got:

www.ankersolix.com/products/f38...

Just bought a Anker F3800 Plus to augment my home power backup needs. With the discount and tax rebate it’s under $2k now and can power most necessary things for at least 4-5hrs, longer if you conserve. Plus no noise or fumes of a gas generator!

If not, and it’s too difficult to run some Ethernet cables to those spots, check out powerline ethernet adapters. I’ve had good luck with them when running a line was impossible.

I was just working on my FSx analysis tool (mostly for ONTAP and Windows), so I’ll look into this a bit more. FSx certainly has some odd 1-way doors depending on engine type.

When I was an 80’s kid, we watched re-runs of 50’s shows like “Leave it to Beaver”, and today’s kids would mean watching reruns of Seinfeld and Friends. 👴🏻

Tutu finally got to get on Rocky’s body! 🥹 it won’t be long and they will be napping in the floor together. #bunny #labrador

Outback is good, but Texas Roadhouse rolls are S-tier bread.

So sorry Ada, take care of your self, and I hope you start to feel better soon!

Finally!

So weird that they didn’t acknowledge this in the blog posts announcing AWS Transform.

Gateway 2000 ad from 1991 showing various computers for sale.

More ad from Gateway 2000 showing the title “Champion of the people is gateway 2000 and the best value will prevail!”

And lastly, this is the insert after you unfold the ad.

Ad showing men dressed in medieval attire, 2 riding horses and the ad says “yet this war the pc titans cannot win”

I mean, how cool is this ad copy!

Gateway 2000 ad from 1991 showing an archer dressed as if they are in the movie Robin Hood

Let’s take a quick peek at this wonderfully retro Gateway 2000 ad from 1991

The spine of 2 computer shopper magazines from 1991. Also a pair of sunglasses for reference since the are taller than the sunglasses

First up, we have to show off just how thick these were. I remember them being big, but they are even heavier than I remember

2 copies of Computer Shopper magazine from March and November of 1991.

The older I get, the more I look back fondly on my early days of computers. Today I got 2 almost pristine copies of Computer Shopper off eBay, and I’m downright giddy tonight flipping through the pages. Let’s explore some together:

Also, why the hell in #AWS Cost Explorer can I not use ENDS_WITH as a filter for USAGE_TYPE?!?

#AWS Wishlist for today - I want a CloudWatch Metric for AWS/Logs for Vended Logs. I can see total CW Logs in an account using IncomingBytes, but I want to see how much of that is Vended Logs now.

Looks like the only way to get this data is to use Cost Explorer and look at *-VendedLog-Bytes

I wrote another thing for Duckbill... this time focusing in on the recent change to CloudWatch Logs, and this one even has a Github repo to go along with it!
github.com/DuckbillGrou...

A charcoal lab dog named Rocky laying on the couch with his head on a brown pillow.

Rocky is tired of all this rain, but also it’s Sunday so might as well nap on a pillow.

AWS Lambda introduces tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch logs and additional logging destinations | Amazon Web Services Effective logging is an important part of an observability strategy when building serverless applications using AWS Lambda. Lambda automatically captures and sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This...

Holy cow… tiered pricing for CWLogs, as they reclassified them as vended logs! aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

If it writes UI code like the AWS console, there is no way I’m using it! 😀

I wrote a blog about RDS RI's today, go check it out! If you want to ask questions, feel free to stop by our office hours in 15 minutes. duckbillgroup.com/officehours

All of the Java shops will start looking at snapstart real quick!

Come join me this week as I host our FinOps office hours! I have written a lot of our AWS service analyzers, so stop by and pick my brain!

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders—annotated Here’s a thing I’ve always wanted to do: take Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter and translate it into human.

This goes about like you think it would: starts off with a Clippy joke, then rapidly descends from there.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...