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How Pennylane Took the FinOps Burden Off Engineers
Cloud spend doesn’t break your infra, it breaks your focus. At Pennylane, a next-generation accounting platform built to simplify financial management, cloud cost visibility had become a growing distraction. As AWS and Datadog costs scaled, so did internal friction. Senior infrastructure engineers were spending too much time explaining cloud cost drivers, time that could have…
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The Dirty Secret of Infra Teams
Why Every Infra Team Is Doing FinOps and Why It’s Not Sustainable Cloud infrastructure has changed. Costs are now driven by usage, and usage is growing fast. AI workloads, serverless compute, GPUs, and multi-cloud architecture have made cloud billing more dynamic, more opaque, and harder to manage. This shift has created a silent crisis inside…
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Why a New Cloud Cost Dashboard Won’t Make Your Organization Cost-Conscious
You’ve rolled out the dashboard. You’ve integrated with your cloud providers. Everyone can now see their cloud spend, broken down by project, team, or service. But costs are still creeping up. Why? Because a cost dashboard doesn’t drive cost-consciousness. People do. Here’s why simply visualizing cost doesn’t lead to real change in behavior, and what…
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Why Allocating Shared Cloud Costs Is Essential for Control and Efficiency
Shared services — such as BigQuery, Datadog, Kubernetes, and CI/CD — represent a significant portion of cloud spending in most organizations. Without proper allocation, these costs lead to inefficiencies and misaligned accountability across teams. This article outlines three common approaches to allocating shared costs and their implications on cost control and operational maturity. Option 1:…
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