Notes on cloud spend

SREs: Move GCP Preemptible VMs to Spot Using advice.capacityHistory

October 3, 2026

Engineers: migrate legacy preemptible VMs to Spot on GCP. Learn to use advice.capacityHistory to gauge zone preemption risk, plan migrations, and avoid...

Cut GPU cloud costs 40–60%: Measurement playbook for FinOps & SREs

See live H100-to-RTX rates, run a measurement-first budget calculator, and apply rightsizing and purchasing steps proven to cut GPU cloud costs 40–60%.

See fintech cloud savings in 14 days with an AWS first playbook

An AWS first FinOps playbook for fintech teams. Get unified cost visibility, 14 day quick wins, and a prioritized roadmap to measurable cloud savings.

fintech-cloud-cost-optimization

Tighten cloud forecasts for FinOps on AWS: amortize, no upfront fee

September 19, 2026

An AWS first playbook for FinOps teams: amortize billing, run monthly rolling forecasts, and get a no upfront audit paid from realized savings.

cloud-cost-forecasting

Cut Cloud SQL Costs in 5 Moves for FinOps and SREs

September 18, 2026

Five FinOps and SRE moves to cut Cloud SQL bills: recommender rightsizing, pause nonproduction instances, rebuild grown disks, drop unused HA, then stage...

cloud-sql-cost-optimization

AWS Rightsizing: Audit Led Workflow That Cut Clients' Bills 32%

September 17, 2026

AWS first playbook to turn Compute Optimizer + Cost Explorer recommendations into validated savings, with an audit led pay on savings option.

Azure Tagging Strategy With 4 Core Tags for Platform and FinOps Teams

FinOps playbook for platform teams: use four core tags, enforce with Azure Policy and IaC, and run audits to cut untagged spend.

azure-tagging-strategy

Find Idle EC2 Capacity in One Week with Kubernetes Resource Requests for Ops

September 15, 2026

Ops guide to Kubernetes resource requests: how they affect scheduling, QoS, throttling, evictions, and where oversized requests waste AWS spend.

kubernetes-resource-requests

Cut Glue costs 30–60% with 5 levers engineers use and DPU math

September 14, 2026

Engineer playbook to lower AWS Glue bills: five levers—right-size DPUs, autoscaling, Flex, partitioning, Parquet/ORC—and measure with DPUSeconds before...

glue-cost-optimization

Cut AWS VPC Endpoint Costs Up to 87%: Start Saving in 1 to 2 Hours

September 13, 2026

Cut AWS VPC endpoint spend: add free S3 and DynamoDB gateways, consolidate interface endpoints, and right size AZ coverage. Quick 1 to 2 hour checklist to...

vpc-endpoint-cost-optimization

Require Line Item Approval Before Paying for Savings Consulting on AWS

September 12, 2026

Contract first AWS guide to paying consultants on shared savings. Insist on a written baseline, line item approval, and a 6–12 week pilot.

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5 Steps to AWS FinOps Audit: Pay on Savings for IT and Finance Teams

September 11, 2026

Practical AWS FinOps audit playbook: five stages mapped to the FinOps Framework, governance and automation checks, and a pay-on-savings option for IT and...

BigQuery Cost Optimization for Engineers: Top 10 Audit + Pay on Savings

Engineer focused BigQuery cost optimization: run a top 10 queries audit, enforce dry run and maximum_bytes_billed caps, right size reservations, or try...