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