Cloud FinOps for Engineers: Escaping the Lift-and-Shift Cost Trap
Cloud FinOps for engineers isn’t an accounting discipline — it’s an architectural one. You’ve successfully migrated your first workload. The Terraform applied cleanly, the latency is within bounds, and the cutover was silent. Then, 30 days later, the first hyperscaler bill arrives. It is 40% higher than your strict estimate. Welcome to the “Lift and…