Master your cloud costs. Stop reacting.
Cloud cost management doesn’t have to be bewildering. We provide financial planning and analysis for enterprise infrastructure to help you understand, negotiate, and optimize your cloud spend.
Cloud costs are more complicated than ever
Tools are not cutting it
Your tools were built for simpler times — smaller environments and straightforward contracts. Now that contract terms, consumption data, and cost drivers are scattered across systems, even seasoned teams struggle.
Organizations are complex
Enterprise complexity scales with growth. Consumption-based billing is inherently complicated. These two challenges compound each other; your cloud cost landscape can look completely different every year, quarter, even every month.
Ownership is fragmented
Cloud economics demands alignment across finance, engineering, and procurement, but expertise is scattered across teams and executives. FinOps bridges these gaps, but is held back by bad tools, silos, and stretched capacity.
We solve cloud cost chaos
Duckbill tackles sophisticated infrastructure cost challenges with unified software and services.
Understand what’s actually happening with your cloud spend
Get the expertise and tooling to see how your infrastructure, contract terms, and consumption actually impact your bill — without the archaeological dig. Introduce rigor and process so you finally have clarity through context.
Answer every question with confidence
Whether leadership is asking hard questions or engineering needs clarity, we bridge the technical and the financial so you’re the authority on cloud costs.
Get ahead of issues proactively
We shine a light on what actually drives your cloud bill so you can catch problems early, budget accurately, and forecast with confidence.
Duckbill Blog
Expert takes, deep dives, and pro tips on cloud cost
The OpenAI Polycule Moves In Together
For fourteen years, I had a rotten little chihuahua named Ethel, who was a malevolent scheming weasel. I didn't realize it at the time, but learning to speak "malevolent scheming weasel" was great training for understanding the press releases that AWS puts out semi-regularly. Today, the OpenAI polycule put out a whole swath of press […]
The Complete Guide to CloudFront’s Flat-Rate Pricing (And Who It Actually Helps)
CloudFront now offers bundle pricing, which is handy—but also confusing. Let’s dive in…
FinOps Is Solving the Wrong Problem
We’ve long been known for our hot takes on cloud at Duckbill, and here’s the hottest one: the cloud isn’t expensive. “Expensive” implies a judgment, a comparison. If cloud is expensive, what’s it expensive compared to? Every argument we’ve heard is one considered in isolation, rather than in the full context of the business. Cloud […]
AWS Database Savings Plans: Six Years of Complaining Finally Pays Off
AWS launches Database Savings Plans after years of customer requests, offering discounts up to 35% on serverless databases and 20% on instances across services.
Ready to be the authority on your cloud spend?
You’re faced with tough questions about cloud costs. You should have confident answers.
