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Topic - Top down FinOps

Cloud strategy rarely survives the trip to engineering

FinOps gets stronger when it stops behaving like a reporting function and starts translating executive intent into operational reality. Cloud cost is not just an optimisation problem. It is a business decision about risk, reward, and which outcomes are worth paying for.

FinOps wants to grow. It might shrink instead

FinOps wants to grow. It might shrink instead

As cloud approaches trillion-dollar scale, it becomes infrastructure. FinOps practices standardise and disperse into finance, engineering, and procurement. What remains is not optimisation, but context; translating strategy into coherent decisions across the system.

A framework helps people think. A system helps people operate

A framework helps people think. A system helps people operate

A framework helps people think. A system helps people operate FinOps has a framework, and that matters. But frameworks guide attention. A field matures when more people can start from the same core instead of rebuilding the practice each time.

FinOps X day London 2026 - Keynote comments

FinOps X day London 2026 - Keynote comments

My notes from the FinOps X day London 2026. In not particular order.

2026-03-23 news

A mature FinOps practice can still be useless to leadership

A mature FinOps practice can still be useless to leadership