AWS’s Valkey Play: When a Fork Becomes a Price Cut

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 […]

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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.