The “Lift and Shift” Cost Trap: A Sysadmin’s Guide to FinOps and Avoiding Cloud Sticker Shock
Introduction: The “Lift and Shift” Trap 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 Shift” trap. For traditional sysadmins, hardware capacity…
