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Notes from the field on cloud cost optimization, governance, and treating the cloud bill as the big-data problem it really is.

NEW Open Source Multi-Cloud 23 Jun 2026 · 12 min read

Beyond Advisor-Green: Building an Open-Source Shadow Cost Detector for Multi-Cloud

Native cloud advisors are good at what they're designed for — they're not designed to surface the 10–30% of recoverable spend hiding behind all-green dashboards. Here's how I built Shadow Cost, an open-source tri-cloud FinOps webapp that goes further.

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FINOPS May 23, 2026 · 4 min read

Five Cloud Costs That Hide in Plain Sight

The biggest cloud savings rarely come from the line items everyone watches. Here are five sources of waste that slip past most monthly reviews — and how to surface them.

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