CLOUDY MUSINGS

Somewhere along the way, FinOps picked up a bad reputation. I had a customer tell me they viewed FinOps as akin to security. I felt it was a bad comparison, as most FinOps teams I work with, plus customers who have aspirations to build a FinOps team, are just trying to optimize + make cloud cost management more transparent to the organization. For a lot of teams though, it shows up as a dashboard no one asked for, a budget alert that fires too late, a preventative guardrail t

Over the past few slightly chaotic months at work, a customer asked a really interesting question that I realized deserves a better,...

This post required a revision based upon how I originally positioned AWS Reserved Instances. I'm still learning AWS, so I had some During...