A blog post by The Duckbill’s Group CEO Mike Julian with an ambitious title: “Why Cloud Finance Is Broken and Ineffective”.

The Duckbill’s Group is a consultant company that helps its customers to reduce their cloud spendings. Mostly in AWS (frankly, I’m not sure if they work with other clouds).

Despite the ambitious title, this article advocates for a very simple idea: “the cost of a cloud is a matter of architecture”. Yes, you can apply AWS savings plans to reduce the cost, you can obviously terminate dangling instances and volumes. It all contributes to your savings, but still the most important part is the architecture.

There’s also a linked article in the same blog that clarifies a bit this thesis as well as provides some practical insights into how to think about your architecture as a cost center.

The second article is AWS-specific, but the first one basically applies to any cloud.

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