Do you need a tool to tell you that the cloud is more expensive?

Do you need a tool to tell you that your company underpays or is bad at recruiting? Or maybe that you do something boring that people don't want to work for?

IMO Keda is the more important product in this space, because it translates business requirements like max queue wait time into compute resources.

If you are operating in a way where small cost differences decide if you are break even if you have already failed, no amount of "FinOps" will stop your trend from going to zero. It is delaying the inevitable.

Meanwhile, we’re transitioning to on-premises infrastructure due to the increasing complexity of cloud services. Kubernetes and Docker are powerful platforms—we love them—but they were never meant to be cost-driven. Kubernetes is already incredibly efficient. However, surviving cloud costs and avoiding its traps requires granular cost control—far beyond just monitoring RAM, network, or CPU usage. It’s become overwhelming.

In a nutshell, any K8S deployment on-premises tends to be inherently optimized, saving a significant amount of time and resources. I have new servers and old servers in the same cluster, that is epic.

Modern FinOps often feels like a frustrating exercise: Should I choose 2x 2XXL instances or 4x 8XL instances? The conversation rarely focuses on optimizing software performance or database efficiency. Instead, the cloud has turned into a maze of cost centers, where it’s easy to get lost in ‘managing’ the cloud rather than building valuable products for end users.

Smart acquisition, Apptio + Turbonomic + Kubecost is a strong FinOps suite

there is a certain term well known amongst IBMers: "Blue washing"

R.I.P. Kubecost

I dumped kubecost (gross UI, shitty helm chart) for opencost. Shortly after, AWS eliminated any need for either of them.