Cost Optimization
Container and Kubernetes Cost Optimization
A 2026 guide to Kubernetes cost optimization: node sizing, namespace allocation, autoscaler tuning, and FinOps practices that scale with adoption.
Tag
15 posts on this topic.
Cost Optimization
A 2026 guide to Kubernetes cost optimization: node sizing, namespace allocation, autoscaler tuning, and FinOps practices that scale with adoption.
Finops
FinOps as Code embeds cost policies into CI/CD pipelines — tagging enforcement, idle-resource shutdown, and cost-per-feature metrics, no dashboards required.
Finops
How to build a FinOps culture that speeds developers up instead of slowing them down: Slack alerts, CI/CD tagging, and cost-per-feature metrics.
Cost Allocation
How to identify and reclaim unused cloud resources — orphaned disks, idle VMs, abandoned snapshots, and the automation that cleans them up safely.
Cost Optimization
How intelligent scheduling and consistent tagging turn fragmented cloud spend into accountable, cost-efficient infrastructure management.
Cost Optimization
Cost Groups categorize cloud spend by team, project, resource type, or business unit — the structure behind accurate chargeback and showback.
Cost Allocation
How to optimize allocated resource costs in the cloud — tagging discipline, cost-center alignment, and the chargeback model that drives accountability.
Cost Allocation
Ten cost-tagging best practices for 2024 — standardized tag schemas, stakeholder alignment, and automation that makes chargeback actually work.
Finops
Five common Cloud FinOps challenges — visibility gaps, broken tagging, missed commitment discounts, slow approvals, stale data — and how to fix each.
Finops
Tips and best practices for automating FinOps: tagging enforcement, anomaly detection, scheduled shutdowns, and the workflows worth not automating.
Release
April 2024 release: new CloudMonitor FinOps reports — Microsoft 365 usage, VM licenses, recently-created resources, costs by tag, and more.
Release
March 2024 release: M365 Usage Analytics with TCO across all licenses including Copilot, plus virtual tag support across all CloudMonitor reports.
Cost Optimization
Six cloud cost management strategies that scale: tagging discipline, commitment coverage, anomaly alerting, automation, allocation, and reviews.
Cost Optimization
Why cloud cost monitoring is essential: how dimension-level metrics turn forecasts, budgets, and allocation from guesswork into discipline.
Cost Allocation
Azure tagging strategies that hold up in production: tag schemas, enforcement policies, and patterns that prevent unallocated cost from creeping in.