Building True Cost Visibility: A FinOps Engineering Approach to Multi-Tenant Cost Attribution I’ve spent over eight years in FinOps, and if there’s one lesson that keeps reinforcing itself, it’s this:...
Making FinOps Work for AI: How to Control AI Cloud Costs Without Slowing Innovation AI is transforming how companies build products, but it is also transforming their cloud bills at a pace...
Automating RDS Aurora Snapshot Exports to S3: Smarter Storage, Lower Costs In modern cloud operations, backups are essential. But unmanaged backups can quietly become one of your most persistent...
The Illusion of Regional Disaster Recovery: Lessons from the AWS us-east-1 Incident TL;DR The AWS incident in the us-east-1 region on October 20, 2025, caused widespread service disruptions, even for...
FinOps Automation: Why is Simple So Hard (And How We Solved It) The main goal for any FinOps team is to create automated processes that save money and improve efficiency...
Optimizing AWS Backup Costs: Our Journey to Efficient Cloud Storage Written in collaboration with Sabith Venkit, Solutions Engineering @ Amazon Web Services. Anyone who manages a cloud environment...
Don’t Fear the AI Bill: How to Apply Proven FinOps Playbooks to Generative AI Costs After 7 years in FinOps and working with hundreds of companies, I’ve seen a familiar pattern emerge around...
How We Automated EKS Version Tracking to Save Customers Hundreds of Thousands in Extended Support Costs The Hidden Cost of Kubernetes Version Drift In the fast-paced world of cloud computing, AWS releases new services...
Cloud MSPs: Automate or Fall Behind If you’re a cloud MSP, the clock is ticking. Automation isn’t optional anymore — it’s the only way to scale FinOps without sacrificing quality. The real question isn’t if you’ll automate, but how — will you build it yourself, or adopt a platform built...
