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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Right-sizing gets treated like the first thing to tackle. But what if you're running the wrong instance family to begin with? Or still on fifth-gen when eighth-gen exists? The order matters more than people think. Join us this Thursday. Register: duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Someone asked about the trade-off between flexibility and discount when it comes to purchasing commitments for databases. The answer depends on how confident you are about what won't change. Join us this Thursday. Register: duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Someone asked how to enforce tag accuracy across a large development team. Turns out getting tags applied is only half the battle. Making sure they're actually accurate is the hard part. Join us this Thursday. Register: duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Someone asked about getting reimbursed for services running in a region they can't access anymore. The answer involved support tickets, contract clauses, and the phrase "force majeure." Join us this Thursday. Register: duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

O11yCon is this tomorrow. Corey on Thursday May 21, 3:45 PM -- "Instrumenting Your Personal Assistant End-to-End." Building AI agents without an observability story? This one's for you. events.honeycomb.io/o11yConSF2026/home

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O11yCon 2026 | Observability Conference for the AI Agent Era

Join O11yCon 2026 on May 20–21 in San Francisco — the observability conference for developers and engineering leaders navigating AI agents in production. Hear from speakers at Google, Honeycomb,…

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

At Office Hours, someone discovered they'd been paying for something their team had completely forgotten existed — which, honestly, is more common than anyone wants to admit. Register: duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

O11yCon SF, May 20-21. Corey is speaking May 21 on instrumenting an AI personal assistant end-to-end. Honeycomb, Google, Salesforce, Thoughtworks in the room. Worth being there. events.honeycomb.io/o11yConSF2026/home

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O11yCon 2026 | Observability Conference for the AI Agent Era

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Someone brought a workaround to Office Hours that was so absurd it became the highlight of the call. This is what engineers do when security policies meet reality. Register: duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

AI SRE Summit is Tomorrow, 10:30 EST. Deep in AI POCs? This is the talk for the moment someone says "scale it" and your team has to figure out what that costs. Free. komodor.com/ai-sre-summit-2026

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AI SRE Summit 2026 | Komodor

Join the Alliance to learn from enterprise teams already using AI SRE in production to automate incident response, eliminate toil, and drive reliability-first cloud cost optimization at scale.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Duckbill's Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn on why the gap between Amazon's infrastructure and its higher order applications exists — and whether it's likely to close. Learn more: duckbillhq.com

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Treating observability as "add it later" means staring at a production failure with no idea if the problem is in your prompt, tool calls, data, or the model. Corey on this at O11yCon SF, May 21. events.honeycomb.io/o11yConSF2026/home

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O11yCon 2026 | Observability Conference for the AI Agent Era

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The POC works. Someone says "ship it." The economics hit like a freight train. This is how you got $47K/month NAT Gateway charges. The AI version is coming. Corey at AI SRE Summit, May 12. komodor.com/ai-sre-summit-2026

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AI SRE Summit 2026 | Komodor

Join the Alliance to learn from enterprise teams already using AI SRE in production to automate incident response, eliminate toil, and drive reliability-first cloud cost optimization at scale.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Account managers get things wrong, AWS contracts have edge cases your TAM has never seen, and the people in the room have learned these lessons the hard way. Turns out that's worth an hour of your Thursday. Register: duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Amazon uses Isengard internally so their engineers never have to manage AWS accounts the way customers do. If they had to live that pain, it'd get fixed fast. Open source it or stop using it. Learn more: duckbillhq.com

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Corey Quinn, Duckbill co-founder and Chief Cloud Economist, is speaking at O11yCon SF on May 21 -- "Instrumenting Your Personal Assistant End-to-End." Treating observability as a later problem? This talk is for you. events.honeycomb.io/o11yConSF2026/home

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O11yCon 2026 | Observability Conference for the AI Agent Era

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Cost and reliability aren't separate problems -- they're the same problem in different meetings. AI makes it worse: variable cost, variable reliability, making decisions about your infra. AI SRE Summit, May 12. komodor.com/ai-sre-summit-2026

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AI SRE Summit 2026 | Komodor

Join the Alliance to learn from enterprise teams already using AI SRE in production to automate incident response, eliminate toil, and drive reliability-first cloud cost optimization at scale.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

At Office Hours: AI costs that don't count toward PPAs, security groups misconfigured for five years, cloud repatriation that was one storage workload. These are the problems that come up when engineers actually talk. Join us TOMORROW. Register: duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

AI support works when it answers correctly and routes to a human fast when it doesn't. It doesn't work when it's a gauntlet before customers can reach a person. Most deployments are the second one. Learn more: duckbillhq.com

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Lots of noise about AI infrastructure reshaping the landscape. The more interesting question is who's holding the foundation while all of that plays out. Learn more: duckbillhq.com

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Cloud got so good at hiding complexity that we forgot the complexity exists. Easy became the assumption -- and that assumption is where expensive surprises live. Learn more: duckbillhq.com

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Duckbill co-founder and Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn is speaking at the AI SRE Summit on May 12. Talk: "Your AI Doesn't Know What Things Cost." The danger isn't POC spend -- it's the moment someone says "ship it" and nobody's done the math. Free. komodor.com/ai-sre-summit-2026

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AI SRE Summit 2026 | Komodor

Join the Alliance to learn from enterprise teams already using AI SRE in production to automate incident response, eliminate toil, and drive reliability-first cloud cost optimization at scale.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"Cloud is too expensive, let's build a data center." An AZ is a data center. Four AZs is four data centers. You're not simplifying -- you're trading resilience for a single point of failure. Learn more: duckbillhq.com

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Most large cloud customers assume they have more leverage than they do, and more time than they have. $30M+ a year with a renewal in six months? You're already behind. Learn more: duckbillhq.com

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

You tried to optimize your cloud costs. Now they're higher. TOMORROW, join Office Hours where we've seen every version of "this was supposed to save us money." 30 min. Unscripted. Zero pitch. Register: www.duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

That cloud bill doesn't make sense. Line items are gibberish. Charges contradict the estimate. Support redirects you to useless docs. This Thursday, join Office Hours for actual answers. No pitch. No catch. Register: www.duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Finance wants cost breakdown by project. Your tagging is "aspirational." Half your resources are untagged. TOMORROW, join Office Hours for cost allocation nightmares. No pitch. Register: www.duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Someone asked you to forecast next quarter's cloud spend. You laughed. Then panicked. Join Office Hours this Thursday for help predicting the unpredictable. No agenda. No pitch. Register: www.duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Your cloud bill arrived. It's 30% higher than last month. Nothing changed. Or did it? TOMORROW, we host Office Hours where we help you find the answer. Bring your surprise charges, phantom resources, and bills that make zero sense. Unscripted. No pitch. Register: www.duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Your cloud bill updated. Your stomach dropped. This Thursday, we host Office Hours for that exact moment. Bring your billing panic and inexplicable spikes. We'll help you figure it out. No sales pitch. Just answers. Register: www.duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

SF FinOps meetups are going monthly. First one is Tuesday, April 21, downtown SF. For the people who've been handed an AWS bill and told to "figure it out." luma.com/wa8gx4e3

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San Francisco FinOps Meetup · Luma

Join fellow FinOps pros, finance folks, engineers, and cloud cost enthusiasts for an evening of insights and honest conversation in downtown San…

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Tomorrow. 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Office Hours. Your three-year commitment seemed like a good idea in 2022. Your spot instances keep getting interrupted at the worst possible times. Someone told you to "just use Graviton" and you want a second opinion. Ask away. www.duckbillhq.com/office-hours/

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

SF FinOps meetup is now monthly. No vendor pitches. No slides. Just FinOps pros, finance teams, and engineers having honest conversations that don't happen at work. Tue, April 21 · Downtown SF · 5:30 PM · Food & drinks provided. Register: luma.com/wa8gx4e3

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San Francisco FinOps Meetup · Luma

Join fellow FinOps pros, finance folks, engineers, and cloud cost enthusiasts for an evening of insights and honest conversation in downtown San…

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Commitment paralysis? Justifying spend to finance? Confused by your bill? You're not alone. Join us for clarity.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thursday 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Discounts, waste ID, tool recs, architectural trade-offs. If it's cloud cost related, we can help. Join us.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Preparing for budget season? Negotiating with vendors? Forecasting cloud costs? Real talk from people who've done this.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Thursday 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Cost spikes you can't explain? Tools promising savings but delivering confusion? Let's make sense of it.

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Duckbill office hours You have questions. We have coffee. Meet our team and get personalized advice on your most pressing cloud cost

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Preparing for budget season? Negotiating with vendors? Forecasting cloud costs? Real talk from people who've done this.

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Duckbill office hours You have questions. We have coffee. Meet our team and get personalized advice on your most pressing cloud cost

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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.

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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...

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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

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Last Week in AWS/Duckbill x RedMonk x Heavybit at re:Invent 2025 · Luma

Need to escape the madness on the strip at re:Invent? Join Duckbill, RedMonk, and Heavybit at Atomic Liquors in downtown Vegas. The best party at re:Invent,…

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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

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Last Week in AWS/Duckbill x RedMonk x Heavybit at re:Invent 2025 · Luma

Need to escape the madness on the strip at re:Invent? Join Duckbill, RedMonk, and Heavybit at Atomic Liquors in downtown Vegas. The best party at re:Invent,…

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Duckbill @duckbillhq.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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

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Last Week in AWS/Duckbill x RedMonk x Heavybit at re:Invent 2025 · Luma

Need to escape the madness on the strip at re:Invent? Join Duckbill, RedMonk, and Heavybit at Atomic Liquors in downtown Vegas. The best party at re:Invent,…

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