Our customers
We help finance, engineering, FinOps, and procurement leaders who refuse to fly blind with cloud spending.
Duckbill was a fantastic partner for us to work with. During our engagement, we were able to quickly identify a number of areas where we could reduce costs, without significant effort. We were truly surprised how quickly they were able to assess our architecture and configuration simply by walking through our AWS bills.
Fanatics improves the efficiency of their cloud infrastructure
“When Duckbill’s report said we’d save millions of dollars annually everyone could see this would be a big win.”
Instana optimizes their hybrid environment
“We had very open communication, very direct. It was really more like having an extended team working together. It never felt like, ‘Oh, you are the external consultancy and you’ll lecture us at the end of the two weeks about what we did wrong,’ . Duckbill was very solution-oriented. Everybody liked working with them.
Working with Duckbill was a game changer. We went from a negotiation where our cloud provider knew all the levers available and we had little to go by, to one where we had access to real time market data and cloud negotiation strategy expertise. Even though our negotiation had several complex elements, Duckbill was able to reach a very favorable outcome in only a few weeks, and supplied comparative data of our deal terms that was valuable for gaining stakeholder approval. Overall we highly recommend Duckbill and would be eager to work with them again when delving into cloud provider negotiations.
Thank you for the support over the last 6 months – we could not have made such a positive outcome happen for our company without all of your expertise and guidance.
I’ve already referred a few large customers your way. You also got a shout out during our C-suite and board approval process, so who knows who else might reach out.
I’ve already referred a few large customers your way. You also got a shout out during our C-suite and board approval process, so who knows who else might reach out.
Honeycomb discovers a hidden AWS pricing edge case
“Duckbill came highly recommended, yet exceeded all our expectations. they know more about how AWS billing works than anyone else in the world, including all of AWS. In just a few weeks they helped us reclaim 10% of our entire operating budget.”
Scribd developed a cost model for their infrastructure migration to AWS
“As part of the cost modeling, Duckbill came up with a meaningful unit economic KPI for us to use: cost per thousand document views. It’s helped bridge the gap between how Finance perceives what we’re doing and how Engineering and Product perceives it. Finance can tie that metric to their annualized budget, while I can come from the other direction to identify how infrastructure changes we plan to make will impact that number. It just gives us a meeting place in the middle as we talk about costs.”
I think if you go to really good specialist, you can tell the depth of their experience based on the questions they ask you. A really good specialist won’t ask you, ‘Are you feeling out of breath?’ They would like say, ‘I’m seeing this test score, this test score, etc. …Are you still smoking?’ They’ll have that kind of assumption based on what they’re seeing. Duckbill is like that.
Epsilon streamlines their architecture to get the most out of their AWS investment
“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.”
Hypergrowth security company saves $63 million with Duckbill
“The single biggest highlight was the confidence that we didn’t leave money on the table.”
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