Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Preparing for budget season? Negotiating with vendors? Forecasting cloud costs? Real talk from people who've done this.
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Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Preparing for budget season? Negotiating with vendors? Forecasting cloud costs? Real talk from people who've done this.
Thursday 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Cost spikes you can't explain? Tools promising savings but delivering confusion? Let's make sense of it.
Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Preparing for budget season? Negotiating with vendors? Forecasting cloud costs? Real talk from people who've done this.
Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Unscripted. Unfiltered. Unhelpful support tickets not required. Real answers about cloud costs from people who get it.
Thursday = Office Hours. 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Live Q&A on cloud cost management, billing anomalies, optimization. If it's keeping you up at night, let's talk. Coffee optional.
Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Debugging a bill spike? Planning 2026 cloud budget? Get answers from people who've seen it all. No question too basic.
Got cloud billing questions? We've got answers (and coffee). Join Office Hours this Thursday at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Live Q&A on cloud costs and FinOps.
New case study: How Bluesight hit a 22x ROI on cloud cost optimization—while launching 3 new products.
The challenge: aggressive growth targets in 8 months, right after an acquisition that expanded their AWS footprint.
Here's how we did it: www.duckbillhq.com/customers/bl...
Last day at re:Invent!
We're at booth #1217 through this afternoon. If you haven't stopped by yet, now's your chance.
Struggling with cloud contract management?
Come see what Skyway is all about at #1217 — we’re here to help.
#reInvent #AWSreInvent #FinOps
Good morning, re:Invent! ☕️
We’re here and ready to tackle your thorniest cloud-bill questions.
Come find us at booth #1217.
#reInvent #AWSreInvent
Tomorrow night: Your official escape from re:Invent madness.
Tired of the Venetian? Overwhelmed by expo halls? Need a drink with people who get it?
Tomorrow @ 7pm, Atomic Liquors, Downtown. Duckbill, RedMonk, and Heavybit are hosting. Drinks on us. RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
Before re:Invent's keynote: breakfast with @QuinnyPig, @mike_julian, @jpatanooga, and fellow cloud practitioners.
Mon Ami Gabi, Tuesday, December 2. No sales pitch. Just fuel and conversation. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
The best conversations at re:Invent don't happen on the show floor. They happen when you escape the strip and talk to people who actually understand your cloud cost problems. Join us downtown at Atomic Liquors. Wed, Dec 3 at 7pm. RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
re:Invent means three things: information overload, questionable coffee, and 50,000 people crammed into the Venetian. We're offering a fourth option.
Join Duckbill, RedMonk, and Heavybit at Atomic Liquors. Downtown, away from the chaos.
Wed, Dec 3 @ 7pm. RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
Keynote preparation: breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi.
Real food, strong coffee, honest conversation about enterprise cloud realities.
Join us Tuesday, December 2 before the announcements begin. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
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
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
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
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.
#finops
New platform. New name. Same Duckbill.
Introducing Skyway.
www.duckbillhq.com/blog/skyway-...
"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.
#finops
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.
#finops
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?
#finops
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.
#finops
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.
#finops
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.
#finops
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.
#finops
