FinOps 101: A CTO's Guide to Reducing AWS Bills by 40%
Companies migrate to AWS to save money, but 18 months later their bill is higher than the old data center. FinOps isn't about cutting costs — it's about making cloud spend proportional to value.
- Category: Cloud & DevOps
- Published 2026-02-16 · 1 min read
- Topics: FinOps, AWS Cost, Cloud Optimization, DevOps
- The Silent Budget Killer: Cloud Waste It's the same story in every audit: A company migrates to AWS to "save money," but 18 months later, their monthly bill is higher than their old data center. Why? Cloud Waste. Dev environments running 24/7. Oversized EC2 instances. TBs of "Hot" storage for data nobody touches…