Duckbill

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 put

I've been complaining about CloudFront pricing for the better part of a decade. Not because it was expensive-though it often was-but because nobody could tell you what it would cost until the invoice arrived. Not customers. Not AWS sales. I'm half-convinc

Cloud cost consultant Duckbill, known for co-founder Corey Quinn's sharp takes on AWS, raises $7.75M and launches Skyway, a financial planning and forecasting platform for enterprise cloud spending.

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 co

In 2019, AWS announced Savings Plans. "Great, it supports EC2 and Fargate, now you need to support Lambda" was my immediate reaction-not because (at that time) Lambda was expensive, but rather because it removed a perceived economic reason not to migrate

Introducing Skyway: contract management for enterprise cloud spend. Built by the team overseeing tens-of-billions in enterprise cloud spend.

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. I've been beating this drum for years-through public blog posts, making a scene in pu

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 deter