Contents What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework? The 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework The Well-Architected Review Process The WAF Ecosystem & New Lenses How Can I Apply The Framework? FAQs Closing Thoughts 🆕 This guide includes AWS' most recent...
EC2 costs usually come down to three levers: pricing model, instance choice, and waste control. This complete guide shows what to check, how to fix it safely, and how to stop the same issues coming back—manually or with automation. Contents Quick Wins EC2 Pricing in...
Cloud Centers of Excellence vs. Cloud Cost Centers of Excellence: What’s the Difference? When enterprises first moved workloads to the cloud, the focus was on speed, agility, and adoption. But as cloud spend has exploded, organizations have realized that adoption...
Introduction Welcome to our glossary of FinOps terminology, designed to help teams understand the words and phrases they are most likely to encounter in their FinOps journey. Found a FinOps word or phrase that you'd like us to add? Let us know here and we'll get on...
FinOps X 2026 Mon Jun 8 - Thu Jun 11, 2026 (San Diego, CA) FinOps X is the FinOps Foundation’s flagship conference and expo. Each June, more than 1,600 cloud-cost professionals gather for three days of keynotes, chalk-talks, and hands-on sessions that cut straight to...
Contents Introduction What is Cloud Visualization? 6 Reasons To Use Cloud Visualization What to Look For in a Cloud Visualization Tool Conclusion Seeing is Believing As organizations increasingly move their operations to the cloud, the sheer complexity of distributed...
A Safer SaaS Alternative Keeping your cloud environment secure is more important than ever. What else is increasingly essential? Third-party apps to manage and optimize your cloud. Here lies a dichotomy. Many regular SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications bring...
The list of organizations that have suffered high-profile cyber attacks grows longer by the week. As a result, CIOs and IT leaders have put network security under a bright spotlight. Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) is a rapidly growing area of interest AND...
Your ops team are driven to maximize performance with real-time alerting and remediation. Your engineering teams are keen to move at pace, often automating everything in sight. Your finance team is desperate to keep a lid on costs, reducing them wherever possible....
What's in this post? What is a Cloud Platform? Multi-Cloud Public v Private v Hybrid Clouds IaaS v PaaS v SaaS What is a Cloud Platform? A "cloud platform", often referred to as Platform as a Service (PaaS), is a type of computing service that offers a suite of...
