by | May 6, 2026 | Blog Post
Every month, your organization pays full price for storage that isn’t connected to anything. These “ghost” disks—created during testing, left behind from deleted VMs, forgotten after migrations—accumulate silently across AWS, Azure, and GCP, bleeding...
by | Apr 8, 2026 | Blog Post
Your finance team just flagged a 40% spike in “software subscriptions” last quarter. When you dig in, you find OpenAI API calls buried in a marketing automation platform, Claude tokens consumed by sales enablement tools, and Azure OpenAI instances spinning...
by | Mar 25, 2026 | Blog Post
Your non-production environments are hemorrhaging budget while your team sleeps. The math is brutal: non-production environments run 168 hours per week but are actively used for only 40-50 hours. That means 70% of your dev, test, and staging compute costs are pure...
by | Mar 11, 2026 | Blog Post
Your cloud bill has a silent killer. While you focus on EC2 instance rightsizing and Savings Plan coverage, NAT gateways sit quietly in your VPCs—charging $0.045 per hour whether they process one byte or zero bytes. That’s $32.40 per gateway per month in idle...
by Cloudgov FinOps SME | Feb 25, 2026 | Blog Post
Should the CostOwner tag on your production database point to jane.smith@company.com or platform-engineering? This question has derailed more tagging strategy meetings than any other. Both sides have compelling arguments. Tag by person and you get precise...
by Cloudgov FinOps SME | Feb 24, 2026 | Blog Post
Your tagging strategy looked solid on the whiteboard. Environment, team, cost center, application—clean, logical, enforceable. Then someone asked how to tag the shared PostgreSQL cluster that six microservices depend on, owned by platform engineering but consumed by...