#cloud-waste
Aug 17, 2026
Your non-prod is bigger than you think
CI, staging, and preview environments run around the clock at production sizes for a fraction of the value. That is reclaimable spend.
Aug 13, 2026
Spot instances for the workloads you were told not to
Spot is not just for stateless batch. With the right interruption patterns, it safely covers far more of your fleet.
Aug 4, 2026
Idle and orphaned: the silent tax on every cloud account
Zombie volumes, unattached IPs, and idle databases accumulate in every account. A repeatable sweep reclaims them without breaking anything.
Aug 1, 2026
How to rightsize without breaking production
Rightsizing is the highest-impact, lowest-risk cloud saving — if you do it with evidence and a rollback. Here’s a safe, repeatable way to do it.
Jul 31, 2026
Your storage bill is mostly forgotten decisions
gp2 volumes, orphaned snapshots, and un-tiered S3 compound quietly. Storage waste is the cost of choices nobody ever revisits.
Jul 24, 2026
FinOps for engineers: make cost a metric, not a meeting
FinOps works when cost behaves like any other engineering signal — measured continuously, owned by the team, and acted on in the normal flow of work.
Jul 23, 2026
The NAT gateway tax: the line item nobody reads
Data-processing and cross-AZ transfer quietly turn NAT gateways into a top-3 bill item. Here is how to see the flows and cut the charge.
Jul 15, 2026
The 30% problem: cloud waste is an execution failure
Most cloud bills carry 20–30% waste. It persists not because teams can’t see it, but because seeing waste and fixing it are two different jobs.
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