Post-mortems. Benchmarks. The kind of FinOps detail you actually need before you run the migration. One post a week, no fluff.
A FinOps lead opens AWS Cost Explorer to answer the question the CFO asked yesterday: where is our cloud spend going. The first view is a stacked bar chart of monthly cost by service. EC2 is the…
A product team announces a new feature on Tuesday at 10:00 AM Pacific. The marketing email goes out at 09:55. By 10:01 the load balancer is seeing 8 times its baseline request rate. The autoscaler is…
A FinOps lead opens the cost report. A team-aggregate row shows $14,000 a month attributed to no team. The drill-down reveals 320 EC2 instances and 47 RDS databases with no tag. The lead opens a…
The cron expression means "stop at 7 PM, weekdays only." Most engineers can read it after a moment. A non-engineer cannot, and even the engineer who wrote it forgets the semantics within a quarter.…
A new engineer joins on Monday. By Friday they need their first production-grade EKS cluster running so they can deploy the service they were hired to build. They open the company's Terraform module.…
Every cost-optimisation product has shipped an "Apply Fix" button at some point. Most teams do not click them. Either the button is a stub that opens a ticket somewhere (and nothing happens until a…
A team provisions a Cloud SQL Postgres instance in one GCP VPC and wants to connect it to a GKE cluster in a different VPC. The team's instinct, learned from AWS habits, is to set up VPC peering…
A 500-pod cluster has one pod that restarted three times in the last 10 minutes. The operator on call does not know which pod. returns 500 lines of and a handful of interleaved through them. Finding…
A developer asks Claude Code at 2 AM: "this terraform plan is failing admission, fix the bucket so it deploys." Claude reads the error, generates a slightly different bucket config, runs the plan…
A cloud bill increased 22% from March to April. Without context the number looks alarming. With context — traffic grew 35% in the same window, MAU grew 28%, completed transactions grew 41% — the…
A multi-cloud dashboard usually starts as a flat list of resources. One row per resource: name, type, region, status. Easy to scroll, easy to filter, easy to forget that the region column is the most…
The 2 a.m. compute runaway is the canonical FinOps incident. A Spark job is misconfigured to provision new EMR nodes every minute it cannot find a leader. A test agent left running on a developer's…
One post a week. Sundays. No "10 ways to think about cloud" listicles, just the engineering and FinOps notes we'd want to read.
See. Find. Fix. Automatic.
Connect your first cloud account in under 5 minutes. See your first remediation in under 7. No credit card required.