AWS Cost Allocation Guide: Tagging Best Practices

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.

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

When it comes to the exact cost cross-AZ data transfer, the AWS documentation is a bit ambiguous. So I ran a little experiment to figure out how much it costs to move data between availability zones in the same region.

The only vendors selling multi-cloud dashboards are the ones who’d be out of business if you didn’t buy them.

AWS is very eager to tell you something that they can’t quite articulate.

How much does it cost to move a terabyte of data in AWS? Who the hell knows. We tried though, and created a diagram to illustrate it.

ConvertKit posted their AWS bill, so I’ve given it a full analysis just like I do for our clients. Here’s six easy ways to improve their AWS bill.

Many cost optimization companies will talk about right-sizing instances or VMs as if it were trivial. Many companies have no idea about what they speak.

The internet lost its mind when it came out that Lyft is paying AWS $300 million dollars. I’ve got four reasons for you why they’re smart to do it.