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Why FinOps Fails — How We’re Fixing It
We experienced it firsthand: cloud cost responsibility usually ends up with someone who didn’t ask for it. In 99% of companies using AWS or GCP, there’s a Designated FinOps often a staff engineer, a lead infra, or even the CTO who’s the only one with enough technical and business context to do the job. And…
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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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Crafting a Native Tagging Strategy for Cloud FinOps: Maximizing Granularity with Costory’s Virtual Dimensions
In today’s dynamic cloud environments, managing costs efficiently is crucial for any organization. At Costory, we believe that a robust tagging strategy is the cornerstone of successful cloud financial operations (FinOps). Traditional tagging methods, often filled with business-specific and non-perennial tags, can be restrictive and hard to maintain. Instead, we advocate for a granular native…