Duckbill
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Enterprise cloud cost management that actually makes sense. We help you understand what you're spending, negotiate smarter contracts, and optimize ruthlessly.
You're not paid to have an interesting infrastructure; you're paid to solve a business problem. Good infrastructure is boring infrastructure. Put it in a container, let Kubernetes handle it, and focus your creativity on something that actually makes money.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You're not paid to have an interesting infrastructure; you're paid to solve a business problem. Good infrastructure is boring infrastructure. Put it in a container, let Kubernetes handle it, and focus your creativity on something that actually makes money.
#finops
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Pre-keynote breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi with @QuinnyPig, @mike_julian, @jpatanooga, and practitioners who know the first question about any new service is always about cost. Tuesday, December 2. Complimentary. Straightforward. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
AWS re:Invent Pre-Keynote Breakfast · Luma
No Sales. Just Baguettes, My Cloud, and Mes Amis. Join Corey Quinn (Co-Founder, Duckbill Group), Mike Julian (Co-Founder, Duckbill Group) and Josh Patterson…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Pre-keynote breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi with @QuinnyPig, @mike_julian, @jpatanooga, and practitioners who know the first question about any new service is always about cost. Tuesday, December 2. Complimentary. Straightforward. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
Planning your re:Invent pilgrimage? You'll need a break from the chaos.
We're throwing "the best party at re:Invent, hands down." No keynote recap. No vendor pitch. Just good people, better drinks, and Corey Quinn at Atomic Liquors.
Wed, Dec 3 @ 7pm, Downtown Vegas.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
We're throwing "the best party at re:Invent, hands down." No keynote recap. No vendor pitch. Just good people, better drinks, and Corey Quinn at Atomic Liquors.
Wed, Dec 3 @ 7pm, Downtown Vegas.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
Last Week in AWS/Duckbill x RedMonk x Heavybit at re:Invent 2025 · Luma
Need to escape the madness on the strip at re:Invent? Join Duckbill, RedMonk, and Heavybit at Atomic Liquors in downtown Vegas. The best party at re:Invent,…
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November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Planning your re:Invent pilgrimage? You'll need a break from the chaos.
We're throwing "the best party at re:Invent, hands down." No keynote recap. No vendor pitch. Just good people, better drinks, and Corey Quinn at Atomic Liquors.
Wed, Dec 3 @ 7pm, Downtown Vegas.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
We're throwing "the best party at re:Invent, hands down." No keynote recap. No vendor pitch. Just good people, better drinks, and Corey Quinn at Atomic Liquors.
Wed, Dec 3 @ 7pm, Downtown Vegas.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
Our cost optimization philosophy fits on an index card. Step one? Turn that shit off. After that: store less data, stop moving it around like a nervous dad at a barbecue, and don't treat the cloud like your old data center.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Our cost optimization philosophy fits on an index card. Step one? Turn that shit off. After that: store less data, stop moving it around like a nervous dad at a barbecue, and don't treat the cloud like your old data center.
#finops
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Have a new GenAI project and stressing about the cost? Stop it. If it's a flop, you'll turn it off (peak efficiency!). If it's a success, optimizing it is a problem for Future You. For now, focus on innovation, not pinching pennies.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Have a new GenAI project and stressing about the cost? Stop it. If it's a flop, you'll turn it off (peak efficiency!). If it's a success, optimizing it is a problem for Future You. For now, focus on innovation, not pinching pennies.
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"Cloud is for startups; real companies run in data centers." This take ignores the cost of hiring people, that no one at scale pays retail, and the priceless value of options. Thinking it's a simple math problem? That's an adorable level of confidence.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Cloud is for startups; real companies run in data centers." This take ignores the cost of hiring people, that no one at scale pays retail, and the priceless value of options. Thinking it's a simple math problem? That's an adorable level of confidence.
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What AWS service is so bad we'd consider it a credible threat in a hostage negotiation? The Managed NAT Gateway. It's not the hourly fee; it's the outrageous per-GB processing charge. You could store data in S3 for three months for the same price. It's a financial crime.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
What AWS service is so bad we'd consider it a credible threat in a hostage negotiation? The Managed NAT Gateway. It's not the hourly fee; it's the outrageous per-GB processing charge. You could store data in S3 for three months for the same price. It's a financial crime.
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Every AWS bill tells a story, and Kafka is almost always the bad guy. Why? It loves racking up astronomical data transfer charges by chatting with itself across different AZs. It's all painfully obvious once you know to look for it—which is the whole problem, isn't it?
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November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Every AWS bill tells a story, and Kafka is almost always the bad guy. Why? It loves racking up astronomical data transfer charges by chatting with itself across different AZs. It's all painfully obvious once you know to look for it—which is the whole problem, isn't it?
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The internet is losing its mind over Figma's half-billion-dollar AWS bill. But that's only 12% of their Cost of Revenue, which is phenomenal. And Figma doesn't hire idiots. Judging a massive cloud bill without any context is... a bold look.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The internet is losing its mind over Figma's half-billion-dollar AWS bill. But that's only 12% of their Cost of Revenue, which is phenomenal. And Figma doesn't hire idiots. Judging a massive cloud bill without any context is... a bold look.
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Does your business partner insist on inverting their trackpad? There is a solution for this sociopathic behavior. We offer a simple, proportional response to one of the greatest sins in modern computing. It involves a burlap sack and a firm commitment to corrective action. #YouveBeenDuckbilled
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Does your business partner insist on inverting their trackpad? There is a solution for this sociopathic behavior. We offer a simple, proportional response to one of the greatest sins in modern computing. It involves a burlap sack and a firm commitment to corrective action. #YouveBeenDuckbilled
Setting FinOps KPIs sounds smart. In reality, it's a great way to watch an engineer waste three weeks to "save" $45. People will always game the metric, even if it makes zero business sense. Think your team is above that? Bless your heart.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Setting FinOps KPIs sounds smart. In reality, it's a great way to watch an engineer waste three weeks to "save" $45. People will always game the metric, even if it makes zero business sense. Think your team is above that? Bless your heart.
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So you asked a chatbot to fix your AWS bill. What could possibly go wrong? It'll suggest a "one size fits all" policy that works for most things. For the rest? You've just signed up for catastrophic fees. An AI without context is a financial arsonist.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
So you asked a chatbot to fix your AWS bill. What could possibly go wrong? It'll suggest a "one size fits all" policy that works for most things. For the rest? You've just signed up for catastrophic fees. An AI without context is a financial arsonist.
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You use a CDN like CloudFront to save money on data transfer, right? Adorable. In many cases, you can pay more than sending it directly. It all depends on the geographic lottery of where your users are. Welcome to AWS billing.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You use a CDN like CloudFront to save money on data transfer, right? Adorable. In many cases, you can pay more than sending it directly. It all depends on the geographic lottery of where your users are. Welcome to AWS billing.
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Trench warfare was a miserable, protracted conflict. So is cleaning up your AWS account after junior engineers "fix" the Terraform state and then quit. Now you get to spend your days hunting for the expensive, orphaned resources they left behind.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Trench warfare was a miserable, protracted conflict. So is cleaning up your AWS account after junior engineers "fix" the Terraform state and then quit. Now you get to spend your days hunting for the expensive, orphaned resources they left behind.
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The Israelites wandered for 40 years seeking the promised land. Your finance team is on a similar journey trying to decode the "EC2-Other" charge on the AWS bill. Spoiler: there is no promised land at the end of this quest. There are only support tickets.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Israelites wandered for 40 years seeking the promised land. Your finance team is on a similar journey trying to decode the "EC2-Other" charge on the AWS bill. Spoiler: there is no promised land at the end of this quest. There are only support tickets.
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When Moses saw the golden calf, he shattered the tablets in rage. That's our reaction to seeing S3 cross-region replication on all buckets. It's a form of financial idolatry that creates horrifyingly large bills. That kind of confidence is... a choice.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When Moses saw the golden calf, he shattered the tablets in rage. That's our reaction to seeing S3 cross-region replication on all buckets. It's a form of financial idolatry that creates horrifyingly large bills. That kind of confidence is... a choice.
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A word of advice for your next AWS migration, courtesy of the Old Testament: don't look back. Specifically, don't look back at your data transfer bill, or you too will be turned into a pillar of expensive, artisanal pink Himalayan salt.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A word of advice for your next AWS migration, courtesy of the Old Testament: don't look back. Specifically, don't look back at your data transfer bill, or you too will be turned into a pillar of expensive, artisanal pink Himalayan salt.
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Sure, pressurizing a bathroom with a poorly installed bidet is bad. But you know what's worse? Enabling S3 object versioning across the board and forgetting about it. You're creating a data graveyard that will haunt your monthly bill. The therapy will feel like a bargain.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sure, pressurizing a bathroom with a poorly installed bidet is bad. But you know what's worse? Enabling S3 object versioning across the board and forgetting about it. You're creating a data graveyard that will haunt your monthly bill. The therapy will feel like a bargain.
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We believe in radical honesty. The kind that makes you tell a friend his kombucha "tastes like divorce." In that spirit: you don't need four RDS read replicas. Your app just isn't that popular, Greg. It's time to stop over-provisioning for your ego.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We believe in radical honesty. The kind that makes you tell a friend his kombucha "tastes like divorce." In that spirit: you don't need four RDS read replicas. Your app just isn't that popular, Greg. It's time to stop over-provisioning for your ego.
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God told Noah to build the ark once. He didn't give him 47 attempts with a buggy IaC template. Every failed run that leaves abandoned resources is a cardinal sin of cloud waste. It's time to repent. Build your infrastructure like you mean it.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
God told Noah to build the ark once. He didn't give him 47 attempts with a buggy IaC template. Every failed run that leaves abandoned resources is a cardinal sin of cloud waste. It's time to repent. Build your infrastructure like you mean it.
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The biblical figure Job suffered greatly, but at least he could blame a higher power. You, on the other hand, have only yourself to thank for the horrors of your AWS bill. Every trial is self-inflicted. Think this won't happen to you? Oh, there's a word for that.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The biblical figure Job suffered greatly, but at least he could blame a higher power. You, on the other hand, have only yourself to thank for the horrors of your AWS bill. Every trial is self-inflicted. Think this won't happen to you? Oh, there's a word for that.
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Remember how King Solomon offered to cut a baby in half? AWS does that every time you split a workload across multiple accounts. Sure, security loves the "isolation," but every new account is another place for horrifying costs to hide.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Remember how King Solomon offered to cut a baby in half? AWS does that every time you split a workload across multiple accounts. Sure, security loves the "isolation," but every new account is another place for horrifying costs to hide.
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The Battle of Antietam was the deadliest day in American history. A close second is the day your finance department discovers a smattering of on-demand instances spread across six AWS regions. Before you cause an accounting catastrophe, learn what to look for.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Battle of Antietam was the deadliest day in American history. A close second is the day your finance department discovers a smattering of on-demand instances spread across six AWS regions. Before you cause an accounting catastrophe, learn what to look for.
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Should you use an AWS reseller? For the most part, no. But there are exactly three situations where they aren't a complete waste of time. If you're just buying AWS from them and getting nothing else, you've just added a useless—and expensive—middleman.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Should you use an AWS reseller? For the most part, no. But there are exactly three situations where they aren't a complete waste of time. If you're just buying AWS from them and getting nothing else, you've just added a useless—and expensive—middleman.
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