Use Cases | Engineering Leadership
Ship features, not spreadsheets
For engineering, the primary focus is faster deployment and feature delivery but your enterprise demands a cost-efficient infrastructure that never takes company margins by surprise. And yet, every hour spent on answering questions from procurement and finance is an hour not spent shipping your ever-growing backlog. Duckbill can help you make cost-aware architectural choices while shipping with maximum velocity.
Make informed architecture decisions
Your architecture drives your cloud costs far more than idle resources or oversized instances. Duckbill provides you with data to make informed, financially sound, and future-proof architecture decisions. We enable proper demand planning, give you visibility into where volume discounts kick in, and clarify how commitments affect your options.
Navigate contracts like a procurement pro
Cloud agreements and commitment structures are deliberately complex. When leadership asks whether to renegotiate now or wait, or whether you’re actually getting value from existing commitments, you need concrete answers. Duckbill provides tried-and-true cloud contract negotiation expertise and a data platform [link to Skyway] that enables you to analyze unified data, ask better questions, and make better decisions.
Bridge the gap with finance and procurement
No engineer looks forward to uninformed questions about whether they really need all that S3 storage or why the app can’t run on a bunch of t3.large instances, yet this is today’s reality: cloud cost is everyone’s business. Duckbill helps you put extremely technical insight into context, so you can give finance and procurement the answers they need, in the language they speak.
Get back to the product
Cost is a core aspect of engineering alongside security, operability, and resiliency, but cloud cost work requires specialized financial skills — like financial modeling or negotiating contracts — that engineering shouldn’t need to develop. Duckbill handles the forecasting, attribution modeling, and contract analysis that pulls your team away from feature development. You build the product, we do the rest.
Related case studies
Duckbill helps Scribd develop a cost model for an on-prem-to-AWS migration
Lendable scales their technical systems as their data grows
Instana optimizes their hybrid environment
Focus on velocity, not reporting
Your job is building systems that scale sustainably while shipping features faster. Let us help you get the rest under control.
