**Eric Pullen**  
May 6, 2025

## [Lambda Logs Just Got a Whole Lot Cheaper*](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/lambda-logs-just-got-cheaper/)

Finally! AWS brings tiered pricing to Lambda’s CloudWatch logs, potentially saving high-volume customers thousands, and adds S3 and Firehose as new logging destinations.

**Eric Pullen**  
May 1, 2025

## [RDS Reserved Instances: Where Did All the New Instance Types Go?](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/rds-instance-types-excluded-from-ri/)

AWS is excluding newer RDS instance types from Reserved Instance purchases. Is this oversight or the quiet continuation of their RI deprecation strategy?

**Eric Pullen**  
January 28, 2025

## [Every Byte You Take: How Cloud Ingestion Pricing Eats Your Budget](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/every-byte-you-take-how-cloud-ingestion-pricing-eats-your-budget/)

Remember the days of over-provisioned data centers, where enterprises hoarded servers like survivalists prepping for the apocalypse? The cloud promised to end all that with its pay-as-you-go model—but the reality isn’t so simple. From ingestion-based pricing traps to skyrocketing data movement costs, your AWS bill can balloon faster than a debug log filled with database dumps. In this post, we explore the true cost of cloud data management, share tips to rein in runaway expenses, and help you decide: Is the cloud truly better for your bottom line?