Cost Saving Tip
Azure Reservation vs. Savings Plans: A Comprehensive Comparison
Azure Reservations vs Savings Plans, compared: pricing model, flexibility, break-even point, and which one fits which kind of workload.
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Azure FinOps field notes.
Cloud Computing
Five Limitations of a Tactical Approach to Cloud Cost Management
Five limitations of a tactical, short-term approach to cloud cost management — and what changes when FinOps becomes a long-term operating discipline.
Cloud Computing
Platform Engineers and Infrastructure Optimization
Why platform engineers should treat infrastructure optimization as a first-class responsibility — operational efficiency, cost, and platform reliability.
Cloud Computing
Five Elements of Continuous Azure Infrastructure Optimization
Five elements that turn Azure optimization from a one-time project into a continuous discipline: budgeting, monitoring, tagging, automation, governance.
Cloud Computing
Adapting to AWS's Ban on Discounted RI Marketplace Sales
AWS now prohibits selling discounted Reserved Instances on the Marketplace. What the policy change means for your RI strategy and how to adapt.
Cost Allocation
How to optimize the allocated resource costs?
How to optimize allocated resource costs in the cloud — tagging discipline, cost-center alignment, and the chargeback model that drives accountability.
Cost Allocation
Cost Tagging Strategy Guide: 10 Best Practices in 2024
Ten cost-tagging best practices for 2024 — standardized tag schemas, stakeholder alignment, and automation that makes chargeback actually work.
Finops
5 Cloud FinOps Challenges — And The Solutions To Overcome Them
Five common Cloud FinOps challenges — visibility gaps, broken tagging, missed commitment discounts, slow approvals, stale data — and how to fix each.
Finops
FinOps Vs. The Old Way: How Cloud Cost Optimization Is Evolving
FinOps vs the old way of cost management — the shift from siloed, reactive reviews to a collaborative, proactive discipline shared by every team.
Finops
6 Examples of FinOps KPIs That Will Improve Your Margins
Six FinOps KPIs that move the needle on cloud margins — coverage, utilization, unit cost, anomaly response time, and the two most teams skip.
