Reading Time: 9 minutesI remember sitting down with a public sector customer who’d just started using AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR). Their FinOps lead said, “We have the basics, but now we need to unpack this data.” I’ve heard this same thought from many teams: they’re fine with generating a basic CUR,...
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs your business scales, cloud costs can be hard to manage. Proper cost allocation is important to avoid overspending by charging the right costs to the appropriate teams or projects. When done correctly, this process brings clarity, ensures accountability, and enables your teams to make smarter spending decisions. In this...
Reading Time: 18 minutesMoving to the cloud isn’t just a new tech trend—it’s a shift in how you handle and plan for your IT spending. Today, as more organizations rely on AWS, it’s critical to keep track of every dollar. Cloud adoption is on the rise, and so is the complexity of managing...
Reading Time: 8 minutesI have learned one thing over time: controlling cloud costs is not about the tools; it’s about people. You want to optimize spend without stifling innovation. You need a culture where every person is incentivized to think about cost as they design, build, and run workloads in the cloud. I...
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a previous post I experimented with serverless monitoring of my websites. I was wondering if I could extend the monitoring functions to gather rudimentary data on the time it takes to load the site. I decided to modify the Lambda function I used earlier to calculate the time it...