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Hello and welcome to Last Week

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in AWS. I'm Corey Quinn. If

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you're interested in the nonsense that

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I tend to get up to

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in my day job, we have

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an upcoming office hours session over

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at the Duckbill Group. We'll be

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talking about weird cost spikes, how

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to forecast cloud expenses, or handle

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negotiations with AWS, or just even

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want to figure out whether you're

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overpaying or not. That's what

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we're here for. Bring

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us your questions and

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your horrifying AWS bills

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on March 20th. Go

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register at duckbillgroup.com/office hours.

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That's duckbillgroup.com/office hours. Now

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let's see what horrifying

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nonsense AWS has for

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us this week. This

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episode is sponsored in part by

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my day job, the duckbill group. Do

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you have a horrifying AWS bill?

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That can mean a lot of

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things. predicting what it's going to

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be, determining what it should be,

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negotiating your next long-term contract with

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AWS, or just figuring out why

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it increasingly resembles a phone number,

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but nobody seems to quite know

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why that is. To learn more,

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visit duckbillgroup.com. Remember, you can't duck

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the duckbill bill. Add my CEO

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and my CEO and forms me

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that is absolutely not our slogan.

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Amazon Bedrock now supports multi-agent

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collaboration, and this is a

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neat idea. If collaboration amongst

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people with different focuses and

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objectives can yield good results,

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why not try it with

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GenA. Amazon RDS for my

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sequel announces extended support in

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minor 5.7.44. OK, I'm not reading the

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rest of that version string. But that's

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right. They have a new extended support

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for a version, which means that RDS

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for my sequel has announced a price

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hike unless you stay on top of

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it. Amazon Route 53 traffic

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flow introduces a new visual

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editor to improve DNS policy

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editing. A visual UI for

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tuning your database performance is

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always a handy thing. load

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balancer announces integration with

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Amazon VPC IPAM. Okay, so

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finally there's a way to allow

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list a subset of IP addresses

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in various firewalls, and then be

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sure that your load balancer IPs

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won't magically shift out of that

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range at various unpredictable intervals. This

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was very much in demand 10

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years ago. Announcing the end of

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support for NoJS, 14.X, and 16.X

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in the AWS CDK. Goodie. One

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more thing to update the next

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time I need to change a

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three-year-old microservice to update a single

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string. Watch the recordings from

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AWS developer day 2025. Okay,

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now despite personally knowing at least

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eight of the presenters that are

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named here, this post was the

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first that I'm hearing about AWS

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developer day 2025. Now, I want

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you to stop and think for

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a second about just how closely

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it is that I track... everything

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that a WS does, and then

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wonder along with me just what

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kind of marketing missteps are required

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to make my previous sentence even

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remotely possible. This episode is sponsored

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by my own company, The Duck

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Bill Group. Having trouble with your

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AWS bill? Perhaps it's time to

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renegotiate a contract with them. Maybe

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you're just wondering how to predict

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what's going on in the wide

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world of AWS. Well, that's where

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the Duck Bill Group comes in

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to help. Remember, you can't duck

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the Duck Bill Bill bill, which

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I am reliably informed by my

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business partner is absolutely not our

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motto. How GoDaddy built a category

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generation system at scale with batch

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inference for Amazon Bedrock. This post

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provides an overview of a custom

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solution developed by the For GoDaddy,

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a sentence fragment that makes no

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sense, just like so many uses

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of Gen AI. Now, I could

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point out that it's ancient cis

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admin wisdom to never put a

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company with Daddy in its name

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in your production critical path. But

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that's... just be shooting the

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elephant in the room. Formula

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One, trademark symbol, unlocks

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the most competitive season

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yet with AWS. No, no, AWS,

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making fun of you for being

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late to AI by pretending to

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be late to the Formula One

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race was my reinvent 2023 gag.

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Once again, you're too late to

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something. Secure cloud

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innovation starts at Reinforce

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2025. Well that's interesting, I

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would have thought that since

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security is job zero, secure

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cloud innovation should really have

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started a couple of decades

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ago. And finally, a few

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weeks ago I pointed out

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that the ACM private CA

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cert limit had silently been

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raised to 20 million Certs.

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Now it's at 50 million

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Certs, likewise with no announcement. And

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that's what happened last

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week in AWS.