Before opening a single dashboard, before reviewing the subscription inventory or running a cost analysis, there is one question worth asking the organisation. The answer to it will tell more about the state of the environment than anything the tooling will show. Who has the...

When Cloud FinOps and Cloud Governance Review begin, the cost patterns become clear within the first half hour. The tooling is good. The data is available. The harder work is everything that follows: who made the decisions that produced these patterns, does anyone know they...

Every hyperscale cloud environment reviewed across every organisation, regulated or not, has dashboards. Cost Management. Budget alerts. Tagging policies. Very few of them have cost accountability. Those are not the same thing, and mixing them up is costly. 

Every Azure environment worth reviewing has dashboards. Cost Management. Advisor recommendations. Budget alerts at the subscription level.Almost none of them have cost accountability. Those are not the same thing, and confusing them is expensive.