Hater Season: Corey Quinn

March 4, 2026

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: Casual "hater season" chat – a no-holds-barred rant session where hosts unleash profanity-laced critiques on tech giants, blending insider analysis with comedy.
The Key Players:
- Host Ed Zitron, podcaster and newsletter writer known for sharp tech takedowns.
- Guest Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill (cloud cost optimization firm) and author of the sarcastic Last Week in AWS newsletter – famous for roasting AWS's chaos without outright hating Amazon.
The Vibe: Fun, irreverent, and intensely sarcastic – peak hater energy on AWS dysfunction and AI hype, educational yet hilarious like a barroom debate among cloud nerds.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Corey Quinn**
2 (04:10) **Why AWS Bills Keep Rising**
3 (08:45) **AWS Organizational Complexity**
4 (10:50) **Andy Jassy's Leadership Shift**
5 (13:39) **AWS Pre-AI Sanity vs. GPU Madness**
6 (20:46) **AI CapEx Risks and OpenAI Deal**
7 (28:04) **Overbuild History and Osborne Effect**

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Show Notes

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, about the realities of LLMs and the chaotic world of Amazon Web Services.

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