What’s your approach to cloud cost management tools? Do you see value in paying for third-party services to monitor cloud spend, or have you found more cost-effective alternatives?

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VP of IT in Consumer Goods7 hours ago

With 80% of our applications running on AWS, we launched a FinOps initiative at the end of last year to monitor and optimize cloud costs, including spot instances and baseline costs. We also reorganized our account setup to distribute resources more effectively.

VP IMIT & CIO8 hours ago

We do not currently use cloud cost management tools, as our cloud adoption is still a work in progress. For example, we are still deploying M365, so we are not yet in the market for such tools.

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