Our AWS tag policy has been enforced for four months: resource creation requires owner, environment, and cost-centre tags, while an overnight Lambda removes or handles anything untagged. Tag…
Our AWS tagging policy has been in place for four months. An SCP blocks resource creation unless owner, environment, and cost-centre tags are present, and a Lambda removes…
Azure billing has become surprisingly difficult to interpret as I add more services. Each resource looks reasonably priced on its own, but the total monthly bill sometimes ends…
Azure billing can become surprisingly difficult to understand once several services are running together. Each resource may look reasonably priced on its own, yet the combined monthly bill…
We've used Azure Cost Management for years, and it has been useful for understanding where our Azure bill is going. Now that Finance, Engineering, and Infrastructure are all…
Our two-person FinOps team manages the entire cloud environment, so we do not have much time for continuous cost reviews. We are considering AI agents that monitor utilization,…
We manage roughly 40 Azure subscriptions with annual spend in the mid-seven figures. The environment is mostly PaaS, with two AKS clusters, and tagging is already enforced through…
I'm building an open-source Kubernetes optimization tool that analyzes Prometheus and OpenCost data to identify opportunities such as CPU and memory rightsizing, idle workloads, and other resource-efficiency improvements.…
We manage roughly 40 Azure subscriptions with annual spend in the mid-seven figures. Most workloads are PaaS, plus two AKS clusters that currently have no clear owner. Tagging…
I'm building an open-source Kubernetes optimization tool that analyzes Prometheus and OpenCost data to identify opportunities such as CPU and memory rightsizing, idle workloads, orphaned load balancers or…
I keep hearing that engineering teams do not care enough about cloud spending, but I am not sure that is the right diagnosis. Engineers usually have dashboards for…
People often say that engineers do not care about cloud costs, but I'm not sure that is the right diagnosis. Engineers usually have immediate visibility into latency, errors,…
My company is moving its data sources—such as our CRM and project-management tools—into AWS. I now have access to explore the tables and dashboards, and my immediate work…
My company is moving our data sources—such as our CRM and Jira—into AWS. I've just received access to explore the tables and Amazon QuickSight, and I'll mainly be…
I run FinOps for a mid-sized organization and am struggling to make Azure cost forecasts useful for budgeting. Azure Cost Management is helpful for analyzing historical spend, but…
I manage FinOps for a mid-sized organization and have struggled to make Azure cost forecasting useful for budgeting and executive reporting. Cost Management is helpful for analyzing historical…
I'm looking for a practical way to investigate sudden changes in Azure spending beyond basic Cost Management alerts. What tools, dashboards, or processes do you use to identify…
I'm looking for a reliable process to investigate sudden changes in Azure spending. In addition to Azure Cost Management and budget alerts, what tools or practices help identify…
Management wants a breakdown of last month's cloud spending by department, but the cost analysis filters are inconsistent and many resources appear as "unassigned" in the billing export.…
I'm looking for a FinOps tool that can give me better visibility into cloud spending, identify cost-saving opportunities, and ideally help with allocation, optimization, budgets, or anomalies. I'm…