I had an electric moment when I joined my colleague and good friend Frank Keienburg on stage at the renowned Cloud Expo Europe in Frankfurt. Standing there, ready to dive into one of the most crucial topics in today’s digital business landscape, FinOps, or Financial Operations for the Cloud, I realized something important:
Do you have complete visibility into your cloud spend? In my last Post regarding FinOps I talked about the first steps like creating visibility about your cloud spend. Now, we want to start and deep dive into these starting points one by one. Today, we are making your Cloud spend transparent.
Let’s start with a truth bomb:
💣 If you think the cloud will automatically save you money, you’re wrong.
Wait… what?
Don’t get me wrong. I love the cloud. I’ve spent the last 15+ years of my life helping companies move to it, build on it, innovate with it, and thrive because of it. But I’ve also seen what happens when they dive headfirst into public cloud services without understanding the economics behind it.
Let’s face it: moving workloads to the cloud sounds great—until the invoice arrives 😬
When architecting IT landscapes in Microsoft Azure, you’re not just choosing performance and scalability. You’re also signing up for a new mindset in how costs behave. Unlike traditional infrastructure where you “buy big and hope for the best,” Azure flips the equation.
