Topic - Top down FinOps
The monster under the bed was always in the contract
Many cloud strategies were built on assumptions that were never written down. Prices would not rise. Services would not disappear. Performance would hold. None of that was guaranteed. When assumptions live outside the contract, they stop being comfort and start being risk.
When the human is the UI
Borrowed leverage: partners, resellers, and the myth of ‘direct’
AWS sells to the tribe, not the board
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.