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I am, of course, your host, Ed Zittron.

Better Offline. I'm, of course, your host, Ed Zittron. Now, we're in hate a season. Hate a season is when I bring people on and allow them to get rude, because you know

this podcast is usually so reserved and nice in the way we refer to people, especially

tech executives, which we've never referred to as

fuckwits or morons, or dumbasses, or shitheads, or shitheels, or ass wipes, or fucknots, or

knob ends. We've never done any of that ever. Nevertheless, joining me today is Chief Cloud

Economist that Doug Bill, Corey Quinn, Corey, how are you doing? I am delighted to be here because normally in all the other

places I find myself, I have to be so reserved. You have to pull your punches. Corey, I, today's

hateer season, tell me about your feelings on Amazon Web Services. Oh, dear Lord, it's, it's

like, it's weird. I don't actually hate Amazon. People think I do because of the things I say and the things that I do. But if I hated them this month, but 10 years in, I write a newsletter about it. If I actually hate the company and want nothing but ill things to happen to them, first off, that's a pathology and I need a restraining order.

And secondly, it always bugs me when people think that I have an axe to grind against the company, because 10 years in, are you seriously suggesting this is the best I would be able to do

if I actually wanted to hit them where it hurts? Come on. But yeah, they've been annoying the piss

out of me lately. So, AWS is weird because, and maybe you can explain this to me, over my entire tech

career, I've heard this constant story that your AWS bill just, it just goes up.

It just arbitrarily increases.

It's not really clear whether they're doing price increases, though I know those exist too.

Rarely, but occasionally, increasingly, increasingly these days, yes.

But why, what is it that makes the bill go up?

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