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Eric Pullen

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Cloud Economist @duckbillgroup Previously Global SA @awscloud Opinions are my own. Based in KY

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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 21/06/2026
Best way I could think to spend Father's Day: building an app for my daughter to practice for her KY driver's permit test. The practice tests are just walls of text and sometimes you need a different approach. She's loving it so far, so I thought I'd share: permitpal.ericpullen.com/about.html
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Permit Pal — See it. Hear it. Tap it.
A free, visual, spoken way to practice for the Kentucky permit test — built for every kind of learner.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 11/04/2026
Sometimes you get irritated enough with a small problem that you just have to fix it yourself. For anyone else annoyed with paste not working on certain apps, I offer TypeAround: typearound.ericpullen.com Tells the app the keyboard is typing the characters from the buffer. That’s it.
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TypeAround - Bypass paste restrictions on macOS
TypeAround is a macOS menu bar utility that bypasses paste restrictions by simulating keyboard input.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 24/03/2026
Got my @takiudon.bsky.social SuperStation One founders edition today. The hardware feels really nice and the box is very cool, now just need a few hours to start playing with it!
Retro Remake’s SuperStation One FPGA console. Front of the box. Retro Remake’s SuperStation One FPGA console. Back of the box showing 70 home brew games pre loaded. Retro Remake’s Black SuperStation One FPGA console out of the box.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 08/12/2025
Have you ever wondered what @quinnypig.com would say if AWS finally released Savings Plans for RDS? Well wonder no more, just listen to the the end of the latest LWIA episode for a hilarious 3 minute diatribe! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0U4...
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Corey Quinn Crashes Out
YouTube video by Last Week in AWS
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 02/12/2025
If you are at #reinvent2025, stop by and say hi! We are in booth #1217 right next to Splunk.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 30/11/2025
Anyone else noticed that the #Venetian smells of cigarette smoke way more than in the past? Already burning my throat just walking through the casino. #AWSreInvent
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 30/11/2025
Headed to #AWSreInvent, and so far a smooth @Southwest.com flight. Can’t wait to have all of the moisture removed from my body as I learn about the latest ingestion priced service you are all going to wildly overspend on!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 31/10/2025
I'm thinking of launching a consultancy where I fly first class to various Fortune 500 companies and sit in conference rooms saying 'That's not how AI works'. Shit, I think I'm already booked through 2026!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 18/10/2025
Holy cow it’s been 9 years since @awscloud.bsky.social us-east-2 came into existence. I still believe it should have been named us-central-1
A screenshot of a Facebook post announcing us-east-2, a new AWS region 9 years ago
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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Planning your next big AWS contract negotiation? Don't go in blind. Our Negotiation Edition Office Hours give you access to specialists who can help you secure the best possible terms. Bring your questions, leave with leverage: duckbillgroup.com/officehours #finops
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Office Hours
Bring your questions and horrifying AWS bills to this interactive session.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 02/10/2025
While @quinnypig.com is out enjoying @monktoberfest.com in the wilds of Maine, I will be taking your Office Hours questions today. Come join me!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 24/09/2025
Stop by and ask us some questions!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 10/09/2025
Come join me tomorrow as I try and do my best filling in for @quinnypig.com answering your questions. It may not be as snarky, but I will try and make it fun!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 28/07/2025
This is perfection. HBD to my favorite current boss @quinnypig.com
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 28/07/2025
Ever since I started working at @duckbillgroup.com, I've had a new appreciation anytime I see a cute baby platypus.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 24/07/2025
Ruh-roh 😳
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lastweekinaws.com @lastweekinaws.com · 24/07/2025
🚨 Amazon Q shipped with a self-destruct button, and we're not joking. A hacker injected a prompt telling Q to wipe computers and delete AWS resources. Amazon shipped it to 950k users. Full story: lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-q-now-with-helpful-ai-powered-self-destruct-capabilities/
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Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities - Last Week in AWS Blog
Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief. To break it down into its simplest form: A hacker submitted a PR. It got merged. It told Amazon Q to nuke your computer and…
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 11/07/2025
“$110M a year on AWS? I could do it for half!” Bro, your last infra project was making a cron job email you weather updates. Sit down. www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-...
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Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is
Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used ...
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 05/06/2025
Tutu finally got to get on Rocky’s body! 🥹 it won’t be long and they will be napping in the floor together. #bunny #labrador
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 19/05/2025
Finally!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 16/05/2025
So weird that they didn’t acknowledge this in the blog posts announcing AWS Transform.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 16/05/2025
The older I get, the more I look back fondly on my early days of computers. Today I got 2 almost pristine copies of Computer Shopper off eBay, and I’m downright giddy tonight flipping through the pages. Let’s explore some together:
2 copies of Computer Shopper magazine from March and November of 1991.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 08/05/2025
#AWS Wishlist for today - I want a CloudWatch Metric for AWS/Logs for Vended Logs. I can see total CW Logs in an account using IncomingBytes, but I want to see how much of that is Vended Logs now. Looks like the only way to get this data is to use Cost Explorer and look at *-VendedLog-Bytes
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 06/05/2025
I wrote another thing for Duckbill... this time focusing in on the recent change to CloudWatch Logs, and this one even has a Github repo to go along with it! github.com/DuckbillGrou...
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GitHub - DuckbillGroup/CloudWatchCashBack: CloudWatchCashBack is a simple Python tool to calculate how much you'll save with AWS Lambda's new CloudWatch Logs tiered pricing. This tool analyzes your cu...
CloudWatchCashBack is a simple Python tool to calculate how much you'll save with AWS Lambda's new CloudWatch Logs tiered pricing. This tool analyzes your current Lambda logs usage and comp...
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 04/05/2025
Rocky is tired of all this rain, but also it’s Sunday so might as well nap on a pillow.
A charcoal lab dog named Rocky laying on the couch with his head on a brown pillow.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 01/05/2025
Holy cow… tiered pricing for CWLogs, as they reclassified them as vended logs! aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
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AWS Lambda introduces tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch logs and additional logging destinations | Amazon Web Services
Effective logging is an important part of an observability strategy when building serverless applications using AWS Lambda. Lambda automatically captures and sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This...
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 01/05/2025
I wrote a blog about RDS RI's today, go check it out! If you want to ask questions, feel free to stop by our office hours in 15 minutes. duckbillgroup.com/officehours
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Duckbill Office Hours
Bring your questions and horrifying AWS bills to this interactive session.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 29/04/2025
Come join me this week as I host our FinOps office hours! I have written a lot of our AWS service analyzers, so stop by and pick my brain!
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 24/04/2025
This goes about like you think it would: starts off with a Clippy joke, then rapidly descends from there. www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders—annotated
Here’s a thing I’ve always wanted to do: take Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter and translate it into human.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 24/04/2025
I think I’ll join Corey this week and see what all the hullabaloo is about!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 22/04/2025
Oh fun, a whole new type of AWS reservation! 🥴
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 10/04/2025
Is it just me, or are you also just walking around your house mumbling “what the actual fuck is going on” at random times? No, just me… ok cool.
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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
New from @quinnypig.com: EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated. Sure, the writing’s been on the wall for RIs for a while now…
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EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated
Something strange started happening at re:Invent last year: new EC2 instances started launching without Reserved Instance support.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 08/04/2025
Tutu just loves Rocky, and for once he didn’t jump up when she came by for a sniff! #bunny #lionheadbunny #labrador
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 03/04/2025
Tutu sniffing on Rocky before having her dinner. #bunny #lionheadbunny #labrador #labradorretriever
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 02/04/2025
Tutu doing some foraging for treats! #bunny
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 02/04/2025
Just Tutu and Rocky hanging out in the family room. Tutu is fascinated with Rocky, but unfortunately Rocky isn’t much of a snuggler.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 01/04/2025
Testing a little video of Tutu our Lionhead bunny. She starts out eating some food from her foraging mat, then takes off for the camera and boops it.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 27/03/2025
I’m planning on being there as well, so please don’t make this another 1-1 with Corey! 😂
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 25/03/2025
Tutu came to visit me today in my office. First time she has made it this far down the hall, but I think she was missing Rocky. She usually thinks the hardwood is lava, so this is her being super brave!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 21/03/2025
I've been playing with this as Corey wrote it, and its pretty cool! I love the AI generated Alt-Text!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 20/03/2025
This is one of those “wow” posts you see and think “how cool is that!”
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 18/03/2025
Uhhh, what the hell is this AWS? Seems like a lot to announce in such a short blog post: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
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AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interaction - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect where powerful AI improves every customer interaction
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 09/03/2025
The battery in my iPhone 14 Pro Max needs service. Went to Apple Store and they said they have no battery’s in stock, but if I’d rather I could just upgrade to the 16. I couldn’t think of a single reason to get a 16 over my current 1TB phone. 🤷‍♂️
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 28/02/2025
Here at @duckbillgroup.com we wish our mascot Billie the Platypus a very happy 6th birthday and hope he won't burn the office down.
A 3d-printed Billie sitting next to a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 24/02/2025
Tutu doesn’t want mom to pick her up, so she runs to see if Rocky can save her. 😂
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 18/02/2025
Got tired of cleaning off the back steps at my house, and picked up these heattrak.com mats to use. Wow, they work really well!
Steps with heattrak ice melting mats along with another mat at the bottom of the stairs. There is snow everywhere else, but the mats are dry.
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 07/02/2025
If you purchase through AWS marketplace to help retire your EDP commitments, you should definitely read what Corey wrote!
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 04/02/2025
I love when I get asked a FinOps question that leads me to writing some python code to figure out the answer. Today’s question, “Can you help me model if my Kinesis streams would be cheaper on demand or as provisioned capacity?”
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Eric Pullen @ericpullen.com · 29/01/2025
I think my wife may be a bit obsessed with the bunny. It has a custom bed and pillow with her name on it and a teepee to relax in (so far, Tutu refuses to use them). 😂
A small wooden bunny bed with a custom carrot comforter and a custom pillow with an outline of a bunny with the name “tutu” written on it. A small teepee and hay box for a bunny with a wooden fence behind it.
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