FinOps should be invisible
FinOps talks a lot about being involved early. Early in architecture. Early in tagging. Early in design reviews. I think that instinct is wrong.
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FinOps tools are consolidating: Flexera–ProsperOps, DoiT’s buying spree, and the platform endgame
FinOps tooling is consolidating into CloudOps platforms. Flexera buys ProsperOps (vertical execution) and Chaos Genius (horizontal data scope). DoiT is buying across …
The monster under the bed was always in the contract
Many cloud strategies were built on assumptions that were never written down. Prices would not rise. Services would not disappear. Performance would hold. None of that …
Borrowed leverage: partners, resellers, and the myth of ‘direct’
When someone says ‘go direct’, I always ask, ‘Direct to what?’
Top-down governance: why paperwork fails and how to enable innovation
Most organisations treat governance as paperwork to be completed before an audit. Policies, slide decks, control libraries and “principles” circulate widely. Everything …
𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸: 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆
AWS Bedrock adds Priority, Standard, Flex. Priority: lower latency, ~60–90% pricier. Standard: predictable baseline. Flex: ~50% of Standard, slower. Anthropic stays …
Top-down FinOps: why leadership sets the frame
Top-down FinOps aligns cloud economics with leadership intent. It connects technical decisions to margin, risk and runway, turning cloud from a collection of local …
Are we over-optimising FinOps? Random thoughts on Monday.
In FinOps, we love to chase waste, and destroy it! But at what point does optimisation itself become waste?
What is AI for? What is BI for?
“Backwards-looking BI, forward-looking AI Ali Ghodsi (Databricks co-founder and CEO) in a Stratechery interview I like this quote because it helps me understand and …
An AWS pricing investigation
My opensource project