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PLATFORM-ENGINEERING4 MIN READ

Sort the FinOps Move

Classify platform cost practices into FinOps phases to choose the next improvement.

Place each cost-control move in the FinOps phase it mainly supports. Ask whether the move creates visibility, improves spend, or operationalizes a known rule. Inform Optimize Operate Require owner, product, and environment tags on all new cloud resources. Rightsize databases that run below 10 percent CPU for 30 days and have no memory pressure. Automatically shut down non-production environments nightly with an approved exception label. Publish cost per completed model-training experiment. Move steady baseline workloads to committed-use discounts after usage stabilizes. Create a weekly anomaly review with engineering, finance, and product owners. Show each team its seven-day spend trend by…

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