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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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

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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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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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

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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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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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

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'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

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

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,…

events.honeycomb.io

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

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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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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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

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

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,…

events.honeycomb.io

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

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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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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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

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

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

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

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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"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

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

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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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

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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