CLOUDY MUSINGS

As with previous blog posts, all code can be found here! The Norns sat beside the Well of Urd weaving fate into the roots of Yggdrasil. The thread was already spun long before anyone knew how the story would end, and by the time the consequences arrived, they were simply discovering decisions that had already been made. I found myself thinking about that recently (HUGE Norse mythology fan) after yet another conversation about cloud billing, because the parallels are stronger

After spending years working across Azure, AWS, and GCP, I can tell you the most frustrating part of FinOps is rarely the optimization itself. The hard part is getting everyone in the room to agree on what the data actually means before anyone can act. Every provider exports billing differently, every tool invents its own abstraction layer on top of that, and every dashboard ends up starting with translation instead of analysis. You spend the first hour of every cost conversa

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Hi all - it's been a few months since I last updated my blog. If you're connected with me on social media, you know my job was...