AWS Cost Allocation Guide: Tagging Best Practices

Storytelling can change the narrative of your cloud cost management strategy by opening up communication and sharing business context across your organization.

Understanding AWS spend is a big pain point for companies, but cloud cost allocation can help. In the second part of this series, we’re focusing on what to do with your cloud cost data once it’s generated.

AWS offers a lot of options to save money by committing to a certain level of spend that you can get without dealing with an Accounting Team. We break down how they work and what strategy works best for your spend.

At The Duckbill Group, our clients repeatedly tell us the same thing: We need to know why our AWS bill went up. In fact, gaining better visibility into your cloud spend is one of the biggest pain points you will encounter with AWS.  For organizations moving from the data center world, AWS is a completely […]

I hate writing job descriptions. I always feel like I’m going to inadvertently write a job description for a purple squirrel.  I know who we are as a company; that part’s easy to write. But how much do I know about what we’re looking for in a candidate?  Are we basing the job description off […]

We take our role in protecting our clients quite seriously, and that starts with aligning incentives.

In February 2020, we began building what would become DuckTools, a new AWS cost management SaaS tool, modeled off of our extensive internal tools we built for our consulting projects. We launched to the world in private beta in December 2020.

This month, we shuttered it.

Let’s talk about why.

For myriad reasons, GCP isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. And that’s a good thing.

AWS has granted my wish and turned its AI/ML focus toward the most intractable of problems: the AWS bill.

How did re:Invent get its name, what is EC2’s origin story, and how does Amazon name its services? We spoke with company brass to find out.

I took the new online option for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam. It was a bit of a rocky start, but also surprisingly promising.

Don’t worry, Reserved Instances will still be around. You just don’t have to think about them anymore unless you want to.