Pete is a recovering system administrator who got his start with AWS services back in 2009 while at Sonian, the first cloud based email archiving platform. Pete is now a Cloud Economist at the Duckbill Group where he spends his time obsessing over customers’ AWS bills so they don’t have to. A frequent speaker at DevOps and Observability events, Pete brings a product mindset to SaaS operations. While not trimming AWS bills, he spends his free time smoking meats and tweeting about the results.