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
Skyway: Cloud cost management for the 9-figure club
Introducing Skyway: contract management for enterprise cloud spend. Built by the team overseeing tens-of-billions in enterprise cloud spend.
AWS Finally Fixes Its Free Tier Problem
For eight years, I’ve watched the same story play out: excited newcomers sign up for AWS thinking they have a free account, only to get blindsided by unexpected charges.
Figma’s $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn’t the Scandal You Think It Is
Well, the internet did what the internet does best this week: it collectively lost its mind over a number in an S-1 filing. Figma disclosed they signed a ~$550 million contract with AWS, someone used arithmetic (the secret weapon of Cloud Finance) to determine that this was roughly $300,000 per day on AWS, and suddenly everyone with a social media account became a cloud economics expert.
Aurora DSQL: A Technical Marvel with a Pricing Randomizer
In short: Amazon’s Aurora DSQL is a technical marvel, but its pricing is absolutely baffling. And I mean just that. They’re not gouging customers. It’s not unfair. How they arrived at their pricing makes sense given the product’s development constraints (presumably including things such as “thou shalt not lose us our corporate ass on this service, as we cannot make it up in volume”). It’s just monumentally confusing.
Ready to be the authority on your cloud spend?
You’re faced with tough questions about cloud costs. You should have confident answers.
