Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Unscripted. Unfiltered. Unhelpful support tickets not required. Real answers about cloud costs from people who get it.

Thursday = Office Hours. 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Live Q&A on cloud cost management, billing anomalies, optimization. If it's keeping you up at night, let's talk. Coffee optional.

Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Debugging a bill spike? Planning 2026 cloud budget? Get answers from people who've seen it all. No question too basic.

Got cloud billing questions? We've got answers (and coffee). Join Office Hours this Thursday at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Live Q&A on cloud costs and FinOps.

New case study: How Bluesight hit a 22x ROI on cloud cost optimization—while launching 3 new products. The challenge: aggressive growth targets in 8 months, right after an acquisition that expanded their AWS footprint. Here's how we did it: www.duckbillhq.com/customers/bl...

Last day at re:Invent! We're at booth #1217 through this afternoon. If you haven't stopped by yet, now's your chance.

Struggling with cloud contract management? Come see what Skyway is all about at #1217 — we’re here to help. #reInvent #AWSreInvent #FinOps

Good morning, re:Invent! ☕️ We’re here and ready to tackle your thorniest cloud-bill questions. Come find us at booth #1217. #reInvent #AWSreInvent

Tomorrow night: Your official escape from re:Invent madness. Tired of the Venetian? Overwhelmed by expo halls? Need a drink with people who get it? Tomorrow @ 7pm, Atomic Liquors, Downtown. Duckbill, RedMonk, and Heavybit are hosting. Drinks on us. RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1

Before re:Invent's keynote: breakfast with @QuinnyPig, @mike_julian, @jpatanooga, and fellow cloud practitioners. Mon Ami Gabi, Tuesday, December 2. No sales pitch. Just fuel and conversation. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k

The best conversations at re:Invent don't happen on the show floor. They happen when you escape the strip and talk to people who actually understand your cloud cost problems. Join us downtown at Atomic Liquors. Wed, Dec 3 at 7pm. RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1

re:Invent means three things: information overload, questionable coffee, and 50,000 people crammed into the Venetian. We're offering a fourth option. Join Duckbill, RedMonk, and Heavybit at Atomic Liquors. Downtown, away from the chaos. Wed, Dec 3 @ 7pm. RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1

Keynote preparation: breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi. Real food, strong coffee, honest conversation about enterprise cloud realities. Join us Tuesday, December 2 before the announcements begin. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k

You're not paid to have an interesting infrastructure; you're paid to solve a business problem. Good infrastructure is boring infrastructure. Put it in a container, let Kubernetes handle it, and focus your creativity on something that actually makes money. #finops

Pre-keynote breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi with @QuinnyPig, @mike_julian, @jpatanooga, and practitioners who know the first question about any new service is always about cost. Tuesday, December 2. Complimentary. Straightforward. RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k

Planning your re:Invent pilgrimage? You'll need a break from the chaos. We're throwing "the best party at re:Invent, hands down." No keynote recap. No vendor pitch. Just good people, better drinks, and Corey Quinn at Atomic Liquors. Wed, Dec 3 @ 7pm, Downtown Vegas. RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1

Our cost optimization philosophy fits on an index card. Step one? Turn that shit off. After that: store less data, stop moving it around like a nervous dad at a barbecue, and don't treat the cloud like your old data center. #finops

Have a new GenAI project and stressing about the cost? Stop it. If it's a flop, you'll turn it off (peak efficiency!). If it's a success, optimizing it is a problem for Future You. For now, focus on innovation, not pinching pennies. #finops

New platform. New name. Same Duckbill. Introducing Skyway. www.duckbillhq.com/blog/skyway-...

"Cloud is for startups; real companies run in data centers." This take ignores the cost of hiring people, that no one at scale pays retail, and the priceless value of options. Thinking it's a simple math problem? That's an adorable level of confidence. #finops

What AWS service is so bad we'd consider it a credible threat in a hostage negotiation? The Managed NAT Gateway. It's not the hourly fee; it's the outrageous per-GB processing charge. You could store data in S3 for three months for the same price. It's a financial crime. #finops

Every AWS bill tells a story, and Kafka is almost always the bad guy. Why? It loves racking up astronomical data transfer charges by chatting with itself across different AZs. It's all painfully obvious once you know to look for it—which is the whole problem, isn't it? #finops

The internet is losing its mind over Figma's half-billion-dollar AWS bill. But that's only 12% of their Cost of Revenue, which is phenomenal. And Figma doesn't hire idiots. Judging a massive cloud bill without any context is... a bold look. #finops

Does your business partner insist on inverting their trackpad? There is a solution for this sociopathic behavior. We offer a simple, proportional response to one of the greatest sins in modern computing. It involves a burlap sack and a firm commitment to corrective action. #YouveBeenDuckbilled

Setting FinOps KPIs sounds smart. In reality, it's a great way to watch an engineer waste three weeks to "save" $45. People will always game the metric, even if it makes zero business sense. Think your team is above that? Bless your heart. #finops

So you asked a chatbot to fix your AWS bill. What could possibly go wrong? It'll suggest a "one size fits all" policy that works for most things. For the rest? You've just signed up for catastrophic fees. An AI without context is a financial arsonist. #finops

You use a CDN like CloudFront to save money on data transfer, right? Adorable. In many cases, you can pay more than sending it directly. It all depends on the geographic lottery of where your users are. Welcome to AWS billing. #finops

Trench warfare was a miserable, protracted conflict. So is cleaning up your AWS account after junior engineers "fix" the Terraform state and then quit. Now you get to spend your days hunting for the expensive, orphaned resources they left behind. #finops

The Israelites wandered for 40 years seeking the promised land. Your finance team is on a similar journey trying to decode the "EC2-Other" charge on the AWS bill. Spoiler: there is no promised land at the end of this quest. There are only support tickets. #finops

When Moses saw the golden calf, he shattered the tablets in rage. That's our reaction to seeing S3 cross-region replication on all buckets. It's a form of financial idolatry that creates horrifyingly large bills. That kind of confidence is... a choice. #finops

A word of advice for your next AWS migration, courtesy of the Old Testament: don't look back. Specifically, don't look back at your data transfer bill, or you too will be turned into a pillar of expensive, artisanal pink Himalayan salt. #finops

Sure, pressurizing a bathroom with a poorly installed bidet is bad. But you know what's worse? Enabling S3 object versioning across the board and forgetting about it. You're creating a data graveyard that will haunt your monthly bill. The therapy will feel like a bargain. #finops

We believe in radical honesty. The kind that makes you tell a friend his kombucha "tastes like divorce." In that spirit: you don't need four RDS read replicas. Your app just isn't that popular, Greg. It's time to stop over-provisioning for your ego. #finops

God told Noah to build the ark once. He didn't give him 47 attempts with a buggy IaC template. Every failed run that leaves abandoned resources is a cardinal sin of cloud waste. It's time to repent. Build your infrastructure like you mean it. #finops

The biblical figure Job suffered greatly, but at least he could blame a higher power. You, on the other hand, have only yourself to thank for the horrors of your AWS bill. Every trial is self-inflicted. Think this won't happen to you? Oh, there's a word for that. #finops

Remember how King Solomon offered to cut a baby in half? AWS does that every time you split a workload across multiple accounts. Sure, security loves the "isolation," but every new account is another place for horrifying costs to hide. #finops

The Battle of Antietam was the deadliest day in American history. A close second is the day your finance department discovers a smattering of on-demand instances spread across six AWS regions. Before you cause an accounting catastrophe, learn what to look for. #finops

Should you use an AWS reseller? For the most part, no. But there are exactly three situations where they aren't a complete waste of time. If you're just buying AWS from them and getting nothing else, you've just added a useless—and expensive—middleman. #finops

Cloud bills are a special kind of nightmare, full of things that defy logic and explanation. Instead of screaming into the void, ask an expert. Bring us your confusing billing questions; leave with clarity and a plan. Scream at us instead: duckbillgroup.com/officehours #finops

So you want to know how your cloud spend stacks up against the competition? Great. Do you also want to be profoundly mediocre? Chasing benchmarks strips away everything unique about your business. Compete with the only company that matters: yourself, last month. #finops

Tired of generic advice that doesn't apply to your architecture? Get personalized answers on YOUR problems from people who do this all day. Stop guessing, start asking. Get advice that isn't useless: duckbillgroup.com/officehours #finops

Want to start a FinOps program? The secret first step: do almost nothing. Just measure everything and show people the numbers. Let the gentle, persistent shame of a public dashboard work its magic. You'll be amazed how quickly costs go down. #finops

Is your entire FinOps "team" just one person who looks perpetually haunted? The centralized vs. decentralized debate is a trap. The real answer is a hybrid "Cost Champions" model—like little sleeper agents of fiscal responsibility embedded in your teams. #finops

Trying to negotiate with AWS when your spend is shrinking? You have the negotiating leverage of a wet napkin. The only winning move is not to play. Let your contract expire, slash your costs, and then come back to the table from a position of power. #finops

Missed your AWS spend commitment? Don't panic. AWS has a neat trick with a hidden "available balance" that lets you kick that shortfall down the road, as long as you keep signing new deals. Learn how to play their game. #finops

"Just cut your AWS bill in half!" says the guy on the internet who's never seen your infrastructure. Real optimization is harder. We've created a no-judgment zone to discuss practical solutions and connect with other pros who get it. Escape the hot takes: duckbillgroup.com/officehours #finops

Planning your next big AWS contract negotiation? Don't go in blind. Our Negotiation Edition Office Hours give you access to specialists who can help you secure the best possible terms. Bring your questions, leave with leverage: duckbillgroup.com/officehours #finops

So your AWS bill made you cry again. Come scream into the void with us. We call it Office Hours. Budget drama Architecture chaos Unfiltered answers (and opinions) Every Thursday. No slide decks. No gatekeeping. duckbillgroup.com/officehours

AWS billing is built to confuse you. Office Hours is built to explain it. Thursdays. No pitch. No fluff. www.duckbillgroup.com/officehours

Cloud costs got you in a corner? Let’s talk it out. Office Hours is free and open to all. Every Thursday.