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Corey Quinn October 28, 2019

POST No AWS Bills: Cloud Cost Optimization Without APIs

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Corey Quinn Chief Cloud Economist

Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their cloud bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

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