Cloud egress costs arrive as a billing surprise. They appear across dozens of line items that nobody owns, growing steadily month over month in a way that makes attribution difficult and root cause harder to establish. The standard response is…
GCP Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) offer 20-57% savings on compute resources, yet most organizations leave money on the table by purchasing commitments manually or not at all. The Cloud Billing API provides the data needed to automate CUD analysis, but…
The FinOps practitioner role didn’t exist five years ago. Today, organizations with substantial cloud spending increasingly recognize that dedicated focus on cloud financial management delivers returns that dwarf the investment. A practitioner earning £110,000 who saves 15% on £10 million…
Cloud spending continues its relentless march upward, with global expenditure forecast to reach £723.4 billion in 2025—a staggering 21.5% year-on-year increase. Yet amidst this growth lies a troubling reality: 69% of organisations exceed their cloud budgets, with an estimated 35%…
Let’s face it -cloud environments can quickly turn into the digital equivalent of that drawer everyone has at home. You know the one: full of miscellaneous items that seemed important enough to keep but not important enough to organise properly.…
