See you in 2026
See you in 2026
Frank Contrepois
When the human is the UI
Borrowed leverage: partners, resellers, and the myth of ‘direct’
AWS sells to the tribe, not the board
When good top-down structure is on the other side
People say, ‘I’m talking with AWS’. It sounds grown-up. It also hides the only thing that matters: you are talking with a human being who has a job title, a quota, and a limited amount of power.
Top-down governance: why paperwork fails and how to enable innovation
Most organisations treat governance as paperwork to be completed before an audit. Policies, slide decks, control libraries and “principles” circulate widely.
Everything looks governed until someone tries to build something.
FinOps wants to become a discipline, but most teams are still a heroic side quest
Cloud cost management won’t scale as a heroic side-quest run by one FinOps practitioner. Borrow proven management systems, give FinOps a mandate, and add programme management so dashboards turn into decisions, and decisions turn into delivery.