AWS Morning Brief Corey Quinn Crashes Out
Dec 8, 2025
Corey Quinn dives into Amazon's Route 53 Global Resolver, grumbling about naming woes. He expresses skepticism about Lambda Managed Instances and the complexities they introduce. The preview of AWS InterConnect raises questions on value versus pricing. CloudWatch's new unified features earn praise but come with a confusing activation process. Exciting news includes S3's object size increase to 50 TB and enhancements to S3 Storage Lens. Corey warns of the React2Shell vulnerability and celebrates the long-awaited introduction of Database Savings Plans.
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Renaming Creates Customer Confusion
- AWS keeps renaming and reshuffling services, which increases customer confusion and cognitive load.
- Corey Quinn highlights that renames like Route 53 Resolver to VPC Resolver force customers to relearn product taxonomy repeatedly.
Serverless With Hidden Complexity
- Combining serverless semantics with underlying servers adds complexity and cost without clear customer benefit.
- Corey questions the value of AWS Lambda managed instances and warns it may introduce management fees and unnecessary complexity.
AI Mirrors Your Messy Processes
- Many new AI and agent features sound promising but risk matching the quality of your worst internal processes.
- Corey cautions that tools like DevOps Agent will learn from messy runbooks and spaghetti code, potentially propagating bad practices.