# Duckbill

## Full Content Export
- **URL**: https://www.duckbillhq.com/llms-full.txt

### Posts

- [4 Reasons Lyft is Smart to Pay AWS $300M](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/4-reasons-lyft-is-smart-to-pay-aws-300m/)
- [A Duck Tale](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/a-duck-tale/)
- [A Simple, Yet Effective Cost Optimization Framework](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/a-simple-yet-effective-cost-optimization-framework/)
- [And the CFO Wept](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/and-the-cfo-wept/)
- [Aurora DSQL: A Technical Marvel with a Pricing Randomizer](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aurora-dsql-a-technical-marvel-with-a-pricing-randomizer/)
- [AWS Begins Sunsetting RIs; Replaces Them With Something Much, Much Better](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aws-begins-sunsetting-ris-replaces-them-with-something-much-much-better/)
- [AWS Cost Allocation Guide: Aggregating and Assigning Cloud Costs](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aws-cost-allocation-guide-aggregating-and-assigning-cloud-costs/)
- [AWS Cost Allocation Guide: Identifying Your Costs](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aws-cost-allocation-guide-identifying-your-costs/)
- [AWS Cost Allocation Guide: Tagging Best Practices](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aws-cost-allocation-guide-tagging-best-practices/)
- [AWS Cross-AZ Data Transfer Costs More Than AWS Says](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfer-costs-more-than-aws-says/)
- [AWS Database Savings Plans: Six Years of Complaining Finally Pays Off](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aws-database-savings-plans-six-years-of-complaining-finally-pays-off/)
- [AWS Finally Fixes Its Free Tier Problem](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aws-finally-fixes-its-free-tier-problem/)
- [AWS Lambda Serverless 101](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aws-lambda-serverless-101/)
- [AWS Tightens the Reins: New AWS SaaS Marketplace Rules Will Impact Your Commitments](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/new-aws-marketplace-rules/)
- [AWS's Valkey Play: When a Fork Becomes a Price Cut](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/aws-valkey-play-when-a-fork-becomes-a-price-cut/)
- [Buying Reserved Instances just got a lot easier.](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/buying-reserved-instances-just-got-a-lot-easier/)
- [Cloud Cost Compass: Duckbill's FinOps Maturity Assessment](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/cloud-cost-compass-duckbills-finops-maturity-assessment/)
- [EBS Snapshots Now Support Cost Allocation](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/ebs-snapshots-now-support-cost-allocation/)
- [EC2 Reserved Instances are Being Quietly Deprecated](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/ec2-reserved-instances-are-being-deprecated/)
- [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/)
- [Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/figmas-300k-daily-aws-bill-isnt-the-scandal-you-think-it-is/)
- [FinOps Is Solving the Wrong Problem](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/finops-is-solving-the-wrong-problem/)
- [Freedom's Expiration Date](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/freedoms-expiration-date/)
- [How ConvertKit Could Lower Its $64K Monthly AWS Bill](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/how-convertkit-could-lower-its-64k-monthly-aws-bill/)
- [How Storytelling Can Shape Your Cloud Cost Management Strategy](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/how-storytelling-can-shape-your-cloud-cost-management-strategy/)
- [How to Properly Engage with AWS Enterprise Support](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/how-to-properly-engage-with-aws-enterprise-support/)
- [Lambda Logs Just Got a Whole Lot Cheaper*](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/lambda-logs-just-got-cheaper/)
- [Overhauling AWS account access with Terraform, Granted, and GitOps](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/overhauling-aws-account-access-with-terraform-granted-and-gitops/)
- [POST No AWS Bills: Cloud Cost Optimization Without APIs](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/post-no-aws-bills/)
- [Protecting Our Clients: Incentive Alignment](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/protecting-our-clients-incentive-alignment/)
- [RDS Reserved Instances: Where Did All the New Instance Types Go?](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/rds-instance-types-excluded-from-ri/)
- [RI Coverage Reports: AWS Hits You With the Shame Stick](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/ri-coverage-reports-aws-hits-you-with-the-shame-stick/)
- [Right Sizing Your Instances Is Nonsense](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/right-sizing-your-instances-is-nonsense/)
- [S3 Intelligent-Tiering: What It Takes To Actually Break Even](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/s3-intelligent-tiering-what-it-takes-to-actually-break-even/)
- [S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is Dead](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/s3-reduced-redundancy-storage-is-dead/)
- [Should I Purchase AWS Through a Reseller?](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/should-i-purchase-aws-through-a-reseller/)
- [Skyway: Cloud cost management for the 9-figure club](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/skyway-cloud-cost-management-for-the-9-figure-club/)
- [Spending Money to Save Money with Savings Plans and Reserved Instances](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/spending-money-to-save-money-with-savings-plans-and-reserved-instances/)
- [The Complete Guide to CloudFront's Flat-Rate Pricing (And Who It Actually Helps)](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-cloudfronts-flat-rate-pricing/)
- [The Duckbill Guide to AWS Reserved Instances](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/the-duckbill-guide-to-aws-reserved-instances/)
- [The Duckbill Guide to AWS Savings Plans](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/the-duckbill-guide-to-aws-savings-plans/)
- [The Innovation–Optimization Continuum](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/the-continuum/)
- [The OpenAI Polycule Moves In Together](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/the-openai-polycule-moves-in-together/)
- [The Post AWS's Billing Team Could Have Written But Didn't](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/the-post-awss-billing-team-could-have-written-but-didnt/)
- [The Secret Ingredient Duckbill Looks for in Employees](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/the-secret-ingredient-duckbill-looks-for-in-employees/)
- [Understanding Data Transfer in AWS](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/understanding-data-transfer-in-aws/)
- [What I Don't See From AWS Support](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/what-i-dont-see-from-aws-support/)
- [What the hell is a vCPU-based on-demand service limit?](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/what-the-hell-is-a-vcpu-based-on-demand-service-limit/)
- [What To Do When You’re Underwater on Your AWS EDP](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/what-to-do-when-underwater-on-aws-edp/)
- [What's the Difference Between an EDP and a PPA?](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-an-edp-and-a-ppa/)
- [Why Benchmarks Miss The Mark for AWS Spend](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/why-benchmarks-miss-the-mark-for-aws-spend/)
- [Why Cloud Finance Is Broken and Ineffective](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/why-cloud-finance-is-broken-and-ineffective/)
- [You Need a Multi-Cloud Dashboard Because I Want To Sell You One](https://www.duckbillhq.com/blog/you-need-a-multi-cloud-dashboard-because-i-want-to-sell-you-one/)

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### Events

- [AWS re:Invent Pre-Keynote Breakfast](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/aws-reinvent-pre-keynote-breakfast/)
- [AWS Summit LA](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/aws-summit-la/)
- [AWS Summit NYC](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/aws-summit-nyc/)
- [COP203: What’s New with AWS Cost Management](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/cop203-whats-new-with-aws-cost-management/)
- [Duckbill & RedMonk Atomic Liquors Drinkup @ re:Invent 2025](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/aws-reinvent-beers-with-redmonk/)
- [For the AWS Bill is Dark and Full of Terrors](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/for-the-aws-bill-is-dark-and-full-of-terrors/)
- [In-Memory Data Reimagined](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/in-memory-data-reimagined/)
- [Negotiating with Hyperscalers](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/negotiating-with-hyperscalers/)
- [San Francisco FinOps Meetup](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/san-francisco-finops-meetup/)
- [San Francisco FinOps Meetup: Cloud  Cost Insights & Networking](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/san-francisco-finops-meetup-cloud-cost-insights-networking/)
- [The myth of portability: why your cloud native app is married to your provider at KubeCon](https://www.duckbillhq.com/events/the-myth-of-portability-why-your-cloud-native-app-is-married-to-your-provider/)