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Cloud | May 08, 2025

AWS takes the egress hit as promised - as DHH actually exits the cloud finally

"The yearly cost will be below $200,000. Much easier to swallow than $1.5m/year"

datadog | Mar 04, 2025

How Natwest's "Boxed" teamed up with Datadog to slash cloud costs, spot big spenders

"We hear you; Datadog is not free..."

Cloud | Sep 02, 2024

SaaS firm spends $25m to snap up IPv4 addresses, trim cloud costs

FinOps... CapEx? Access to IPv4 reserve pool protects it from “being forced to purchase these in an ad hoc manner”...

Cloud | May 01, 2024

An attacker could run you up a huge AWS bill just by sending rejected requests to an S3 bucket and there’s little you can do about it

AWS has promised action over “Denial of Wallet” risk

Cloud | Apr 18, 2024

AWS adds Kubernetes spending breakdown capabilities

"Traditional FinOps cost allocation (e.g. mapping costs of resources back to teams or projects) doesn’t work. You can’t simply allocate the cost of a resource, such as EC2 instance to a tag or label..."

Cloud | Nov 26, 2023

AWS reveals new Cost Optimization Hub, adds welcome customisations to Compute Optimizer

A new AWS Cost Optimization Hub may help slim down that AWS bill

A longer "lookback" period of utilisation history, centralised cost savings hub and more. But don't rely on it alone...

| Financial Services | Jul 25, 2023

Bank of England seeks FinOps help with cloud consumption

Central bank keen to "improve consumption-based spend and reporting and to be able to "make strategic TCO decisions on location of workloads..."

Cloud | Feb 03, 2023

Azure spending notifications outage to last 6 weeks

Redmond suggests partners "regularly review unbilled usage data for cost spikes"

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