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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“The Real Superpower of AI Isn't Technical - It's Contextual
This is a new talk delivered in December in front of Data and AI leaders in Financial services.
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 FinOps market just blinked. And then consolidated.
Flexera just bought ProsperOps and Chaos Genius in one move. FinOps tools are consolidating fast: fewer dashboards, more execution, broader scope (AI, data). Tool sprawl …
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 …
When the human is the UI
The human is the UI is a useful mental model is this: the vendor’s humans are the user interface.
Borrowed leverage: partners, resellers, and the myth of ‘direct’
When someone says ‘go direct’, I always ask, ‘Direct to what?’
AWS sells to the tribe, not the board
Cloud marketing is, on purpose, deeply technical. It is written for people who like systems, clean abstractions, and the feeling of being competent.
When good top-down structure is on the other side
People say, ‘I’m talking with AWS’. It sounds grown-up. It also hides the only thing that matters: you are talking with a human being who has a job title, a quota, and a …
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 …