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Chief Evangelist @Amazon Web Services: follow me for AWS updates & chatter. Father of 5, grandfather of 7. Author, Maker, UW MCDM. @jeffbarr @awscommunity .social

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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 months
Thank you to everyone who brought this article to our attention. We agree that customers should not have to pay for unauthorized requests that they did not initiate. We’ll have more to share on exactly how we’ll help prevent these charges shortly. #AWS #S3 How an empty S3
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 months
Update: S3 engineers are working to make unauthorized requests that customers did not initiate free of charge. This change will cover a range of HTTP 3xx/4xx status codes, including all of those cited in the article. We're moving quickly and we plan to share more details this
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 months
Thank you to everyone who brought this article to our attention. We agree that customers should not have to pay for unauthorized requests that they did not initiate. We’ll have more to share on exactly how we’ll help prevent these charges shortly. #AWS #S3 How an empty S3
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 months
We’ve started deploying changes to Amazon S3 to make unauthorized requests with certain error codes which were not initiated by you to be free of charge. This change covers a range of HTTP 3xx/4xx status codes. It will take a few weeks for the roll out to complete in all #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 months
Update: S3 engineers are working to make unauthorized requests that customers did not initiate free of charge. This change will cover a range of HTTP 3xx/4xx status codes, including all of those cited in the article. We're moving quickly and we plan to share more details this
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
Explaining on-prem, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS with Bacon [image source unknown, not me...]
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
#AWS re:Invent 2020 will be free and virtual! Subscribe at for updates!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps - #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Please accept my apology if you were planning to attend any of the events or streams that I was supposed to do this week. My father passed away last night after a long, slow decline due to dementia, I am in shock, and will reschedule. My tribute to him:
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
My home office -- no distractions at all!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
I started working at 18 years ago today. After a lot of digging, I found an ancient backup of my IMAP mailbox and within it the WELCOME TO AMAZON message that I received the week before I started!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
13 years ago today I started out by saying "Welcome to the Amazon Web Services Blog." It has been an amazing ride so far and the best is still to come. #whoknew
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
15 Years of #AWS Blogging -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
I literally took myself to the office this evening!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
I Processed 558k Transactions on #AWS Lambda in 5 Minutes -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
Mount Rainier from the Vashon to Seattle water taxi this afternoon.
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
I know that most of you follow me because of what I share about AWS. I do try to aim for a mix of 80% work and 20% other, and this tweet thread is going to be the latter. I have no idea where it will go, but I need to say something. (1/21)
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
Introducing Amazon Honeycode – Build Web & Mobile Apps Without Writing Code - #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
One of my colleagues shared this earlier today with the comment "One of the things I love about Amazon is the use of narratives to focus a discussion towards a decision." The other tweet in this thread has some helpful resources to help you learn how to do this!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
I was scanning my bookshelf while on a conference call this morning and decided that these 4 books were the ones that delivered the highest ROI over the course of my career.
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
Cool - S3 Email () - "an unmanaged email server with unlimited email addresses": 🔶Amazon SES Email 🔶S3 database & interface 🔶Lambda glue code 🔶All deployed via CodeBuild & CodePipeline
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
Really cool - #AWS CLI Builder - - "Build your own AWS CLI commands..."
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
Ready to learn? Hundreds of #AWS re:Invent 2019 Decks are now available at #reinvent
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
All #AWS re:Invent Breakout Videos (2013-2017), in searchable, sortable, filterable form - #reinvent . Easily find most-viewed, most-liked, and more!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
After months of work I am happy to share the Amazon Leadership Principles, LEGO Style - (check out all 14)
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
I really need to upgrade my PC...
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
Per-Second Billing for #EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes - #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
Important #AWS Certification Updates: 🔶 All exams now available via online proctoring 🔶 Certification expiration dates & benefits extended 🔶 Retirement dates extended 🔶 Voucher expiration dates extended Details at
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Next stop, Las Vegas and re:Invent. All aboard!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
16 days
After giving it a lot of thought, we made the decision to discontinue new access to a small number of services, including AWS CodeCommit. While we are no longer onboarding new customers to these services, there are no plans to change the features or experience you get today,
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
#AWS Lambda functions can now run for up to 15 minutes!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Perhaps the best line of #reinvent2021 - "You have asked for this, it is basically your fault!" -- @Werner on why there are more than 200 #AWS Services.
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
New - Dark Mode for #AWS Documentation - . Enable in Preferences!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
Coming soon (I've seen it and it is cool) - AWS Fault Injection Simulator -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
The first several hundred re:Invent session videos are now available at , with more to come! #reinvent
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3 - #AWS - Great post, @danilop !
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
Deep inside the #AWS metering and billing system...
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
Yesterday was particularly hard for a lot of folks, me included. I wrote a quick note in a private chat and got some positive feedback, so I am sharing it here in the hope that it will be of value to you in these crazy times.
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
Very nice infographic - Evolution of the #EC2 Host - (great work, @awsgeek )
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
AVC Website - - "... a website that collects all the official Amazon videos related to each individual AWS Service and categorizes them in a way that makes it easy to find what you are looking for. "
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
Wow, really cool - CloudMapper creates network diagrams of #AWS environments -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
Seattle from Kerry Park just a few minutes ago. This is why we love our city!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
Wow, this is awesome: #AWS Lambda and Serverless - Developer Guide with Hands-on Labs - Great work @ezozkme , via @jeremy_daly .
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
New for #AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
Please find me elsewhere, I am out of here for now.
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Barr Family Pizza Oven 2.0 is now operational; we plan to bake our first pizza tomorrow!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
Infographic: Understanding Data Transfer in #AWS - (nice work, @QuinnyPig )
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
#AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources - #reinvent
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
Amazon EKS - Now Generally Available - #AWS #K8s
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final #Oracle Database - #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
Amazon S3: How it started, how it's going:
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
New - Savings Plans for #AWS Compute Services - #EC2
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
This is very helpful -- Browse Every #AWS GitHub Repo:
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
More #AWS content than you can possibly consume: All re:Invent breakout sessions from 2012 to 2018 -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
Getting ready for #AWS On Air to go live in 20 minutes (Noon PT). Join us at or on LinkedIn Live -- we love your questions and comments!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
OMG, my son Andy brought me fresh baklava from Turkey yesterday. Not too sweet and absolutely delicious!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Ok, one more caption challenge. What is going on here with this #AWS Outposts 1U Server, wrong (but respectful) answers only?
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
How it started / how it's going -- I am back online after enjoying 2 weeks in Greece and Türkiye with my dear wife in celebration of our 40th anniversary together!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Merry Christmas from Seattle!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
This is the actual Amazon Cloud, hovering over our #Seattle HQ!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
New – A Shared File System for Your Lambda Functions - - Awesome post, @danilop ! #AWS #Serverless
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
I was lucky enough to capture this photo of Mount Rainier on our @AlaskaAir flight from Cabo to Seattle yesterday. The mountain is always beautiful but I've never seen this little snow in August.
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan - The Rest of the Story - #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
Many of us are Van Jones right now.
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Drew Shiller
4 years
Van Jones is VERY EMOTIONAL on CNN. Wow
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Introducing #AWS Application Cost Profiler, Offering User-Based Cost Data of Shared AWS Resources -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
Introducing #AWS Snowcone – A Small, Lightweight, Rugged, Secure Edge Computing, Edge Storage, and Data Transfer Device - (dog not included)
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
Not that you need my permission, but it is 100% OK to not be OK with what happened today, or to simply not be OK.
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
A must-read for everyone who uses S3 at scale - Best Practices Design Patterns: Optimizing Amazon S3 Performance - - This is the latest and greatest info, direct from the senior peeps on the S3 team! #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
I went in to the office for a meeting and captured the Amazon Spheres from above:
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
14 Years Ago Today - Amazon EC2 Beta - What were you doing back then, and how has EC2 changed your life?
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
Goodnight moon!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
We recently made it easier for you to copy values from the #EC2 console - look for the clipboard when your mouse is nearby. #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Use New Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV - #AWS #reinvent - Awesome post, @sebsto !
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Jeff Barr ☁️
2 years
Amazon Prime Day 2022 – #AWS for the Win! - . "...5,326 database instances running the PostgreSQL-compatible and MySQL-compatible editions of Amazon Aurora processed 288 billion transactions, stored 1,849 TB of data, and transferred 749 TB of data."
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
Really psyched about this: #AWS Documentation is Now Open Source on GitHub - (CC: @github ). Fix or report issues, improve quality, add samples, and more!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Current status...
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
You can now replace the root volume of a running #EC2 instance, rolling back to initial state or to a snapshot -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
14 days
I'm in Tokyo, my left shoes are in Seattle. How would you caption this?
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
New - Experimental public roadmap for #AWS Container Services - (Fargate, ECS, EKS, ECR) - - Cool work, @abbyfuller and @mndoci !
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
I need to quickly introduce an audience to the #AWS cloud and these slides from 2008 still apply....
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Jeff Barr ☁️
8 years
Very nice - The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services - #AWS - Read, enjoy, contribute!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
Oddly enough not one request yet for #AWS Infinidash support in CloudFormation. Share your use cases here and I'll pass them along to the team.
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
#AWS Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion – 100 GB From Regions and 1 TB From Amazon CloudFront Per Month -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
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Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency - #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
New - Predictive Scaling for Amazon EC2, Powered by Machine Learning -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
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New - Amazon DocumentDB (with #MongoDB Compatibility) - #AWS
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
Stop giving this liar a platform @CNN .
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
So cool: Running AWS commands from Slack using AWS Chatbot -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
10 Lessons from 10 Years of #AWS (Part 1) -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
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The #Seattle waterfront as seen from @pike_place Market this evening...
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
Announcing AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code - #AWS #vscode - 💻Test locally in Lambda-like environment 💻Deploy to AWS region of your choice 💻Invoke Lambda functions locally or remotely 💻Specify function configuration
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Jeff Barr ☁️
6 years
AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3 - #AWS #reinvent
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Jeff Barr ☁️
7 years
New Network Load Balancer - Effortless Scaling to Millions of Requests per Second - #AWS #EC2
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
If you are now WFH, have children at home, and your job is somewhat abstract, you now have an opportunity to make it more real for them. Without breaking rules, show them what's really happening when it looks like you are just typing & talking.
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Jeff Barr ☁️
4 years
Introducing Swift #AWS Lambda Runtime: 🍏Blog Post: 🍎Repo: 🔑Getting Started Guide: PS - Original/deleted tweet said "Switch" instead of "Swift." #needmorecoffee
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Jeff Barr ☁️
5 years
Exhaustion level 999. Goodbye, Las Vegas! #reInvent
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Jeff Barr ☁️
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Full moon over Seattle!
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Jeff Barr ☁️
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#AWS Backup - Automate and Centrally Manage Your Backups -
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Jeff Barr ☁️
3 years
I had to do it!
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