Cloud savings, one step at a time.
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Guided walkthroughs that show you where cloud money hides — written for people who don’t live in the console. No cloud access needed, no prompts to engineer, no 4,000-word article to decode.
Three steps. No jargon.
A workflow is a short, branching conversation — like having a patient colleague who already knows where to look.
Pick a topic
EC2, S3, databases… or just “where do I start?” — 121 workflows across 7 domains.
Answer plain questions
No console expertise assumed. “I don’t know” is always one of the choices.
Follow the steps
Console clicks or copy-paste commands — plus how to tell whether it worked.
Made for the people cloud blogs forget
- managers who own the bill
- engineers who inherited the cloud
- teams switching providers
- anyone who nods along to FinOps articles without finishing them
Workflows by topic
121 guided workflows covering the cost levers that actually move a real cloud bill.
Where do I start?
Answer four questions about your setup and get pointed at the three workflows most likely to pay off first.
guided workflows across 7 domains
Compute
Instance rightsizing, autoscaling, spot capacity, idle shutdown
Storage
Storage class transitions, archive tiers, lifecycle automation, volume rightsizing
Databases
Serverless scaling, reserved capacity, on-demand vs provisioned, replica trimming
Networking
Egress reduction, NAT consolidation, private endpoints, CDN offload
Serverless & AI
Function tuning, AI inference budgets, GPU rightsizing, request caching
Operational Efficiency
Idle resource hunts, scheduling, tagging hygiene, waste cleanup
Cost Governance
Budgets & alerts, commitment planning, anomaly detection, showback
Cost-savings notes from the field
Hands-on writeups on AWS & Azure pricing quirks, gotchas, and the savings most teams miss.
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Twenty unexpected difficulties and limitations in Microsoft Azure. Who said the cloud was easy?
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