May 2025

Cloud Cost Guardrails

FinOps Practices to Stop Budget Blow-outs

Cloud spend is one of the few budget lines that can double overnight—sometimes without anyone noticing until the invoice hits.

With headlines about five- and six-figure “surprise” bills spooking boards and investors, disciplined cost governance is no longer optional.

Modern FinOps practices, smarter tooling, and even new regulations now give technology leaders the levers they need to rein-in risk while preserving developer speed.

Below are five resources every CIO, CTO, and VP of Engineering should bookmark before the next billing cycle closes.

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When Cloud Costs Go Wild – The $72K Bill in Two Hours

By Tim Anderson

An interesting story of how Sudeep Chauhan, founder of startup Milkie Way, suffered a bad case of bill shock when a test with a $7.00 billing budget and a free database plan on Google Cloud platform (GCP) generated a $72,000 invoice overnight.

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FinOps Framework Capabilities

By FinOps Foundation

Here is a succint dashboard with a list of FinOps capabilities necessary when managing cloud infrastructures and costs. This dashboard includes discussions on capabilities like: allocation, anomalies management, architecting for cloud, benchmarking, budgeting, data ingestion and many others.

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Top Cloud Cost Management Tools for 2025

By Perry Tapiero

After finally making it to the cloud, there’s still the task of determining cloud costs.

Microservices, containers, Kubernetes made resource costs, associated costs and more are near-impossible to sort though. Without a way to put a reason to a price tag and to break down where your money is going, justifying cloud costs is near impossible.

This article claims that 32% of cloud budgets go to waste and that it can be made 0% with cloud cost management tools.

In this article you will find topics like these:

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Preventing Cost Overruns in Your Cloud-Native Envorpnments

By Nirmata

In this 1-hour video, you will learn how to implement proactive cost controls on AWS using Kyverno and Kubecost.

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