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How To Apply FinOps Principles To Platform Engineering
80% of large software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components and tools for application delivery by 2026.
Continue reading →What scaling startups need to understand about Open Source FinOps
Venture capitalists are investing heavily in FinOps startups, recognizing the immense potential of this space. However, a parallel movement is also gaining momentum with powerful Open Source FinOps projects like FOCUS, OpenCost and Infracost.
Continue reading →Medium to Reach Profitability After Cutting Cloud Costs
Medium's CEO explains how he cut over $500,000 in monthly IT spend by clamping down on unused Amazon cloud services
Continue reading →Eliminating unexpected cloud costs: FinOps strategies for enterprises
Modern cloud cost optimization tools provide deep insight to reduce spend and eliminate cloud surprises.
Continue reading →Cloud Cost Sprawl: How MSPs Can Help Customers Slash Spend
Higher Cloud Costs are an MSP Opportunity
Continue reading →Substrate: Cloud cost allocation made easy
Skip tedious tagging in favor of this simple but robust AWS account strategy that makes neat, shareable reports quickly.
Continue reading →ZDNet: VCs concerned about cloud "sticker shock"
ZDNet has a great article today on how VCs perceive cloud "sticker shock". From the article: "Cloud computing is probably the biggest business around these days -- it has become a $100-billion-a-year industry. And there's a chance companies are paying way too much for it. "
Continue reading →Cloud costs are exploding per recent Anodot survey
A great article over at datanami referencing a recent survey on the rising costs of cloud and the challenges that businesses face trying to manage the expense.
Continue reading →Upcoming Webinar on Cloud Economics

On June 29th at 9am PDT, iland is hosting a webinar on "evaluating costs across multiple cloud providers, especially hyperscale clouds like Amazon, Azure, and Google, a new set of cost levers needs to be considered to realize the best combination of cost and performance that meets the needs of your specific business and application needs."
Continue reading →AirBNB's "Journey Towards Cloud Efficiency"
Medium has a great article on how AirBNB recognized and addressed their growing cloud cost problem.
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