Corey Quinn

Corey Quinn is the founder and chief cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies understand, optimize, and reduce their AWS spending. Quinn is an outspoken industry commentator and widely recognized for translating complex cloud billing and infrastructure topics into clear, often humorous insights through his newsletter “Last Week in AWS,” his podcast “Screaming in the Cloud,” and his active presence on social media.

Keynote: "If I Were Starting Over"

AWS instance pricing used to drop 10% between generations. The C7 to C8 jump costs 7% more. Nobody announced that change. I checked. I've mass-produced bad AWS decisions for ten years and mass-produced opinions about them for nearly as long. If I were mass-producing them starting today, I'd do almost none of it the same way.
This is the talk I wish existed when I started: which best practices aged into traps, what the pricing model actually rewards (it's not efficiency), why the community team that should be onboarding you got laid off, and what Vercel figured out that a trillion-dollar company apparently couldn't. It's useful whether you're fifteen years deep or fifteen minutes in.