AWS containers with Corey Quinn

AWS containers with Corey Quinn

Author: Bret Fisher June 30, 2023 Duration: 1:07:31

Bret and Matt are joined by Corey Quinn to talk about AWS and containers.

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Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at the Duckbill Group. You may have seen or heard some of his in-depth AWS content, including his Last Week in AWS newsletter and blog, Corey's podcast Screaming in the Cloud and the AWS Morning Brief, or his highly produced YouTube videos on the Last Week in AWS channel.

Corey runs the Duckbill Group, a company of people focused on helping clients understand and manage their cloud spend. If I had to describe Corey in a sentence, he's a quick thinking AWS expert who is one part cloud strategist, and one part sarcasm.

The inspiration for this show came from his blog series, focused on all the ways to run containers on AWS, which is to say there's a lot. Dozens of ways, in fact, which I took as a testament to how containers have won the cloud as the primary way to package and deploy software to servers. Now, the hard part for us is to figure out which method we're going to choose for running those containers.

We go on lots of tangents, but overall it was a fun conversation and I hope you enjoy this episode.


Live recording of the complete show from May 4, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #214).

★Topics★
The Cloud Resume Challenge
Last Week in AWS
17 ways to run containers on AWS
17 MORE ways to run containers on AWS


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Creators & Guests
  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (09:36) - 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS
  • (12:14) - If you're using the cloud, use the cloud!
  • (15:49) - Data loss and it's only on the internet forever
  • (20:15) - Recommended ways to run containers on AWS
  • (25:06) - Biggest burn on people's AWS bills
  • (31:50) - Docker Desktop on top of AWS EC2 in Windows and do you need bare metal?
  • (32:30) - Bare metal required for Hyper-V
  • (34:56) - AWS App Runner
  • (42:43) - Services AWS has dropped
  • (43:56) - Workloads inside the container; where the container should run
  • (46:30) - Building experience...hands-on projects vs getting certifications
  • (57:48) - Migrating. Leaving Kubernetes.
  • (01:03:14) - Chat GPT Star Wars jokes

Bret Fisher hosts DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling alongside Nirmal Mehta, pulling conversations directly from their live audience sessions. This isn't a theoretical lecture series; it's grounded in the practical, often messy realities of building and running modern systems. Each episode digs into the specific tools and philosophies shaping infrastructure today, from the foundational elements like Docker and container orchestration with Kubernetes or Swarm to the broader cultural shifts of DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering. You'll hear discussions that span the entire software lifecycle, touching on the integration of security with DevSecOps, the automation promises of GitOps, and what "Cloud Native" truly means for development teams. The dialogue stays focused on actionable insights and real-world use cases, offering a genuine sense of what works and what doesn't in the field. For anyone navigating the container and cloud ecosystem, this podcast serves as a regular, insightful check-in with practitioners and experts, hosted by someone deeply embedded in the community. The natural, interview-driven format makes complex topics accessible, ensuring listeners come away with more than just buzzwords-they get context and clarity.
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