Why most FinOps savings barely register in the boardroom
FinOps often celebrates savings that look big from engineering but invisible to executives. The “splash in the ocean” fallacy shows why bottom-up efforts fail. Only …
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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 …
AWS’s new flat-rate bundles: a small announcement with big consequences
AWS’s new flat-rate CloudFront bundles hint at a shift from metered cloud pricing to predictable, use-case-based plans. If expanded, this model could reduce overspend …
Context, scopes, maturity and pathways: how FinOps adoption really starts
FinOps adoption starts with context, moves through scopes, defines maturity and follows pathways. This layered model turns the Foundation’s framework into a practical …
How FinOps thinking is evolving: from frameworks to pathways
FinOps is evolving fast. The Foundation sets the framework; Carlo Wejszko’s pathways add the missing sequence. This new layer—Context → Scopes → Maturity → Pathways—shows …
FinOps+ wants to eat the world (but most practitioners are still chewing cloud)
FinOps+ and Scopes promise to expand FinOps beyond cloud. It’s ambitious—but for most teams, still out of reach. Here’s why it matters, how it fits the Foundation’s …
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What is business operations
The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets owned by a business. Assets can be either physical or intangible. An example of value derived …
The Suez blockage reminded me of
The Suez blockage reminded me of how much we are in denial against really bad things happening until it is too late.
One risk of cloud
Before the cloud, there were many bugs in custom-built software that could be have been solved with more memory or more CPU. But as getting more memory and CPU was …