TL;DR When IAM and tagging are configured independently in AWS, Azure, and GCP, governance becomes fragmented at the exact point workloads cross provider boundaries. Moving enforcement to the Terraform plan creates one pre-deployment control point, so non-compliant infrastructure is stopped before it becomes an incident, audit finding, or remediation task. Cost ownership breaks when provider … Read more
By the Cycloid GreenOps team, practitioners building carbon-aware platform engineering since 2015. Sustainable platform engineering is the practice of building and operating cloud platforms in a way that minimises environmental impact – reducing energy consumption, carbon emissions, and hardware waste while maintaining engineering velocity. It extends FinOps practices (cost optimisation) to include carbon metrics … Read more
By the Cycloid GreenOps team, practitioners building carbon-aware platform engineering since 2015. A cloud carbon footprint is the total CO2-equivalent emissions generated by an organisation’s cloud infrastructure – including compute, storage, networking, and the embodied carbon of underlying hardware. It is measured using the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard from the Green Software Foundation: SCI … Read more
Most internal developer portals look impressive in demos and stall in production. Six months into a Backstage build, the platform team is debugging YAML plugins instead of shipping golden paths. Gartner’s 2025 Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals projects that by 2028, 85% of organisations with platform engineering teams will provide an IDP, up from … Read more
A multi-cloud management platform provides a unified control plane for governing infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private clouds. It centralises cost visibility, policy enforcement, and self-service provisioning so teams stop losing budget to cloud sprawl. According to Flexera’s 2026 State of the Cloud Report, organisations waste 29% of their cloud spend on average, and … Read more
TL;DR Cloud cost management has shifted from a finance-only function to a shared engineering responsibility. The 2025 FinOps Foundation report highlights that 82 percent of enterprises cite cloud waste as a critical blocker, making cost awareness as essential as observability and security in modern delivery workflows. Finance-owned dashboards fail developers because they deliver cost data … Read more
Imagine you’re a DevOps engineer managing microservices on AWS. How would you configure auto-scaling to handle high traffic without wasting any resources?
Compte tenu de la chaleur qui a étouffé l’Europe l’été dernier, il faut reconnaître que des mesures urgentes doivent être prises par tout le monde. Oui, tout le monde, pas seulement les gouvernements et les acteurs du secteur de l’énergie. L’univers des technologies informatiques ne déroge donc pas à la règle et a son propre rôle à jouer. Pour ceux d’entre nous qui travaillent dans ce secteur, ce rôle implique notamment l’adoption du GreenOps. Alors, en quoi consiste cette approche, et pourquoi le monde en a-t-il besoin?
Le module Cloud Carbon Footprint (Empreinte carbone du cloud) est la nouvelle fierté de Cycloid : il s’agit d’un outil intégré à notre solution FinOps qui sert à mesurer les émissions carbone. Notre approche est unique : nous combinons le GreenOps et le FinOps afin que vous puissiez mesurer au même endroit vos dépenses budgétaires et vos répercussions environnementales découlant de l’utilisation du cloud. Notre but est de promouvoir ainsi une culture de sobriété, qui favorise la conscience écologique des entreprises et qui réduit le gaspillage lié au cloud.
The tech industry is not having a great time at the moment. The 5 US tech giants – Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon – have reported losses in 2022 for the first time in years, and announced massive job layoffs. Of course, they’re by no means going bankrupt, still having earned a combined $243 billion, but seeing as this figure is slightly lower than in 2021, this is sending executives (and the tech industry as a whole) into panic mode (as if it’s not at all a sign of people getting fed up with living in late-stage capitalism).
With major companies bringing back efficiency and profitability, more and more businesses are talking about squeezing budgets in light of the cost of living crisis and the slowing global economy. If you’re considering cutting excess weight in your spreadsheets, here’s a suggestion – why not take a look at your cloud spending?
If 2023 is supposed to be “the year of efficiency”, optimizing your cloud usage is one to start. Not only do cloud costs make up almost 41% of the IT budget according to Gartner – meaning cutting it would make a real difference to your overall finances – in most cases, a lot of the cloud ends up being wasted. Our founder Benjamin Brial has written on the subject of cloud waste before, but the TL:DR is this: despite the cost of the cloud going down, companies’ spending on it has doubled in the last few years, with over $26 billion wasted on inefficient cloud usage. For a hyper-efficient IT world, it’s terribly below the mark.
If any of this rings true, don’t despair – there are ways to cut your spending and optimize cloud usage.
Get good FinOps software to track your costs
One of the reasons cloud spending keeps rising is the fact that cloud costs are shrouded in complexity and mystery, and traditional ways of monitoring them just don’t cut it anymore. Tracking with spreadsheets can get really complicated really fast while chasing data around multiple cloud cost management solutions across your cloud providers is already unnecessarily complex and can mask the real culprits.
What you must be looking for in a FinOps tool is the level of data granularity. You must be able to see the cost breakdown by project, region, provider, date range, or even team, to identify blindspots and money suckers, which would normally be overlooked.
Centralization and ease of access also play a part: the faster you can get a bird’s eye view of your cloud usage, the easier it is to correct course in case of errors. Marketing departments have ruined the word “holistic” for the world, but it’s exactly what you should be aiming for because getting the big picture, trends, and predictions for cloud resources can be the real missing piece to your financial strategy.
This is perhaps where we could plug our own FinOps module Cloud Cost Management, which does all of the above, but the consumer choice is really up to you – we can only advise on what to look out for.
