Insights & Guides
Actionable guides on reducing cloud waste, FinOps frameworks, and multi-cloud governance for engineering teams.
Flexera 2026 data shows cloud waste back at 29% — the first increase in five consecutive years. Old-generation instances, gp2 volumes, abandoned commitments, and cross-AZ traffic are the new frontier. Here's what's driving the increase and what actually works now.
Average GPU utilization across production teams is 23%. An H100 at 50% utilization effectively costs double per productive GPU-hour compared to 100% utilization. Here's how to find your GPU waste, calculate the actual dollar impact, and implement auto-shutdown policies that save five figures a month.
Container workloads now consume 35% of EC2 compute spend, but 83% of that is idle. The bigger problem: your cloud billing tool sees the node, not the namespace. Here's how to build real Kubernetes cost visibility and recover the waste.
Kubernetes clusters hide waste in over-provisioned node pools, idle namespaces, and CPU requests that never get used. Here's a practical guide to cutting K8s costs across all three clouds.
Google Cloud's commitment pricing is confusing. This guide breaks down CUDs, SUDs, and the new Flex CUDs — when to buy each, how to calculate coverage, and mistakes to avoid.
BigQuery's on-demand pricing makes it easy to run a $500 query without realizing it. Learn when to switch to slots, which query patterns waste money, and how to set up cost controls.
Before you terminate a VM showing 5% CPU, you need to answer one question: is it idle because nobody needs it, or idle because it's waiting for its moment? Here's the systematic method to know for sure.
Most optimization tools tell you to downgrade a VM that's at 10% CPU. But if that VM hits 80% for 4 hours every day, downsizing it will crash your application. Here's how to tell the difference.
The most expensive FinOps mistake isn't wasted compute. It's buying a 3-year reservation for a resource you should have deleted. Here's how to decide between RIs, Savings Plans, and staying on-demand.
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