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.

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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.

What sets us apart

We are singularly focused on cloud cost management

We built our entire practice for cloud economics. No other lines of business, no distractions — just deep, focused expertise in this domain.

We are trusted by industry leaders and cloud providers

AWS seeks our input on new features. Leading enterprises rely on our guidance. The press turns to us for authoritative cloud insights.

We have both engineering chops and cloud finance savvy

We combine deep technical knowledge with financial and procurement expertise, bridging worlds that typically don’t speak the same language.

We have the tools and the experts

Purpose-built software handles data complexity while seasoned practitioners make critical judgment calls — the only combination that solves cloud cost chaos.

Duckbill came highly recommended, yet exceeded all our expectations.

Charity Majors Charity Majors, CTO & Co-Founder, Honeycomb

When Duckbill’s report said we’d save millions of dollars annually everyone could see this would be a big win.

John Sheeley Director of Cloud Engineering, Fanatics

Working with Duckbill was a game changer.

Anonymous Engineering Leadership, A computationally-driven biotech startup

Duckbill brought actionable data out of the gate that enables us to take advantage and optimize services immediately. The first few findings more than paid for the cost of the engagement.

Jason LeBaron VP of Solutions Architecture, Epsilon

Duckbill has set a different standard here. Your reputation here is for consistently outstanding work, so we expect excellence from you more than we would from anyone else.

Anonymous A major domestic airline

Duckbill Blog

Expert takes, deep dives, and pro tips on cloud cost

Corey Quinn February 28, 2026

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 […]

Corey Quinn February 24, 2026

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…

Mike Julian February 18, 2026

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 […]

Corey Quinn December 2, 2025

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.

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