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The Cloud Bill Always Comes Due: Hard Lessons in FinOps from a Decade of Enterprise Cloud Migrations

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The first time I saw a cloud bill exceed a million dollars in a single month, I knew something had fundamentally changed about how we needed to think about infrastructure. This wasn’t a massive enterprise with unlimited budgets—it was a mid-sized company that had enthusiastically embraced “cloud-first” without understanding what that commitment actually meant financially.… Continue reading