Cloud talk with invoices attached.
Screaming in the Cloud treats cloud computing as both engineering practice and industry theater. Corey Quinn talks with people in and around the field about AWS bills, platform choices, AI workflows, developer culture, and the strange incentives behind modern infrastructure.
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Screaming in the Cloud sits in the part of cloud computing where architecture diagrams meet invoices, vendor politics, and human impatience. Corey Quinn leads conversations that assume the audience can keep up with AWS, containers, FinOps, AI models, CI/CD, platform-as-a-service, and the cultural machinery around all of it. The show is not trying to flatten the subject for beginners. It is built for people who already know that technical choices are also budget choices, organizational choices, and sometimes highly avoidable self-inflicted wounds. Episodes often open sideways, with a joke, an odd sponsor read, or a deliberately sharp question. Then the conversation snaps into specifics. Ahmed Bebars talks about build-versus-buy decisions, container work, home clusters, and the hidden labor behind systems that look simple from a distance. J.R. Stormont brings the FinOps angle, including AI, allocation, engineering accountability, and why asking engineers to care about cost only works when the organization actually makes it part of the job. Chris Hill turns podcast production and AI voice imitation into a broader conversation about authenticity, ads, and what it means to promote one's own work without sounding fake. Alice Noland brings AI startup programs, NVIDIA, open-source models, and the problem of keeping humans in charge of software systems. Replay episodes widen the lens, with Scott Hanselman on developer enthusiasm and Dai Wakabayashi on reporting about Amazon's power in technology. The guest list is broad, but the show keeps returning to the same pressure points: cloud bills, platform abstractions, developer workflows, vendor incentives, and the gap between a pitch and the thing teams actually have to operate. It can be funny. It can be prickly. It rarely treats hype as innocent. The best moments come when someone names the operational pain hiding under a clean product phrase. The result is a cloud show that feels less like a keynote recap and more like a smart hallway argument after everyone has stopped performing.
Made for: Built for cloud practitioners, platform engineers, FinOps people, developer advocates, technical founders, and industry watchers who already speak the language. It favors listeners who want candid tradeoffs over polished vendor optimism.
What sets it apart: The show turns cloud strategy into lived operational detail: the bill, the broken workflow, the dubious abstraction, the incentive nobody wants to admit. Its edge comes from skeptical follow-up questions and guests who can talk from direct experience.
Screaming in the Cloud with Corey Quinn features conversations with domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing. Topics discussed include AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and the "why" behind how businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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