Amazon, AI, and the cloud: A reality check, with Corey Quinn of 'Last Week in AWS'
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🗓️ 8 February 2025
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Our guest this week is Corey Quinn, the chief cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, the host of the AWS Morning Brief and Screaming in the Cloud podcasts, and the curator of Last Week in AWS, a weekly newsletter. Apart from his newsletter and podcasts, Quinn's day job involves helping AWS customers understand and manage their bills. Amid all the AI hype and billions in capex spending, he uses those insights to provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse and a reality check on the state of the cloud market today.
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| 0:19.1 | I mean, there's a lot going on here. |
| 0:20.9 | You got DeepSeek, as you noted, coming in, proving that you can create this distilled, post-trained AI model for a fraction of the amount that it took to create the original one. |
| 0:31.6 | Oh, and Open AI is very upset that they had their data stolen, that they stole from the rest of us first. |
| 0:36.8 | They stole that fair and square. |
| 0:39.0 | Let me get out the world's tiniest violin for them. |
| 0:46.9 | Welcome to Geekwire. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:50.2 | We are coming to you from Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology, and innovation. |
| 0:56.6 | What happens here matters everywhere. And every week on this show, we get to talk about some of the most interesting and important stories and trends in the news. |
| 1:04.4 | This week, it was Amazon earnings week. We got a glimpse inside the state of the company's cloud business and the rest of |
| 1:11.9 | its domain. And I'm pleased to welcome to the show this week, our guest, Corey Quinn. He is |
| 1:18.0 | chief cloud economist at the Duck Bill Group and the mastermind behind last week in AWS, the popular |
| 1:24.5 | newsletter that keeps the cloud industry both informed and entertained. And he also hosts |
| 1:29.3 | the screaming in the cloud and the AWS morning brief podcasts. It's great to have you on, Corey. |
| 1:35.5 | Thank you. As you can probably tell from a guy with two podcasts, I love the sound of my own voice. |
| 1:40.0 | Thank you for letting me indulge it. That's great. Well, you tell it like it is with a sense of humor about Amazon. |
| 1:47.3 | And so I want to get a sense for what you're hearing from customers and sort of a reality |
| 1:53.5 | check on some of the things we've been hearing from Amazon. |
| 1:55.9 | And if you don't mind, I'd like to start with a quote from Andy Jassy and get your take on this. |
| 2:02.6 | By all means. I always love the quotes I get from Andy Jassy, such as how the hell did you get in here? |
| 2:07.8 | It's a fair question. |
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