CLOUDY MUSINGS

Why This Suddenly Feels Like a Big Deal in the Cloud Ecosystem Every so often, something shifts in the cloud ecosystem, and the reaction is immediate and loud. Feeds fill up, takes get hotter by the minute, and a fairly straightforward announcement starts sounding like the end of the world. That is exactly what happened after HashiCorp published its update about continuing the HCP Terraform enhanced Free tier experience. If you have been on LinkedIn at all recently, you have

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

All code for this blog can be found here . I keep hearing more and more interest by customers I work with in exploring Cloud...