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Tired of Cloud Cost Surprises?

Still chasing down why your Cloud bill exploded?

CloudThrottle brings clarity with real-time budget tracking, automated resource scheduling, and proactive alerts.

Our proprietary budget engine simplifies rollover, proration, and enforcement—so you stay in control without manual intervention.

Unify cloud spending and shut down overspend before it starts.

Built by federal cloud architects. Designed for modern FinOps.

SHIFT LEFT
How to Shift Left on FinOps

Cloud bills that spike way above what you expected can ruin your day as an IT leader. When cloud costs jump unexpectedly, IT teams scramble to find what went wrong, explain the mess to finance folks, and fix their systems to get back on budget. Even worse, development teams might have to rebuild their work just to save money.

The best approach is "shifting left" - dealing with costs early in the development process instead of waiting until the bill arrives. Here's what works:

Make Development Cheaper

Cloud development environments help developers work in consistent setups that cost less to run. These environments also make it easier to bring new team members up to speed.

Build Cost Controls Into Your Code

When teams write infrastructure code, they should include spending limits right from the start. This prevents surprise bills and makes cost control automatic instead of something you remember to do later.

Connect Costs to Business Value

Before spinning up new cloud services, teams should ask if the expected costs match the business benefits. When costs do go up, it should be because the business is getting more value too.

Make Everyone Aware of Costs

Too many companies keep cost information secret from developers. When more people know what things cost, they can find better ways to save money.

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AZURE
Cloud Cost Optimization Guide for Azure

CloudCostChefs offers a complete guide to cutting Azure cloud costs by 30-50% through smart optimization strategies. The platform focuses on helping businesses understand Azure's unique pricing structure and use the right tools to save money.

Azure works differently from other cloud providers with its pay-as-you-use billing system. This means every optimization you make directly cuts your monthly bill. The key is knowing which pricing model works best for each type of work you do.

The guide includes a 90-day roadmap that starts with quick wins in the first month, moves to strategic changes in month two, and builds long-term optimization habits by month three. Most organizations see 15-25% savings in the first 30 days alone.

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AWS
Why I Built AI Powered - AWS Cost Analyzer 

A developer got a shock when his AWS bill hit EUR 2,347 one morning. That coffee-spitting moment led him to build something that could help others avoid the same heart attack.

The solution? An AI-powered AWS cost analyzer that lets you ask questions in plain English instead of wrestling with spreadsheets. Here's how it works:

Upload your bills - Drop in CSV, Excel, or even PDF files from AWS console. The tool reads them all.

Store the data - Everything goes into a MySQL database with two main tables: one for raw costs and another for monthly summaries.

Ask questions naturally - Instead of writing complex queries, just ask "What was our highest-cost service last month?" The AI writes the SQL for you.

Get visual answers - Charts and graphs make the numbers easy to understand.

A real example shows how simple it gets. Upload a CSV with EC2, S3, and Lambda costs. Ask about S3 spending. The AI creates the right SQL query, runs it, and tells you "You spent $23.75 on S3 in June 2025."

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FINOPS EVENTS
AI in FinOps: Automating Cost Analysis with MCP

Use the Most Powerful AI Protocol for Your FinOps Practice

Learn how to use natural language to explore your organization’s cloud costs via MCP clients, like Claude, Cursor, and others. All explained in 1 Hour.

Hosted by industry leaders Victor Garcia (Founder, FinOps Weekly), Ben Schaechter (CEO & Co-Founder, Vantage). Seats for this live event are limited.

17th July - 6:00 PM CEST / 12 PM EST

CLOUD PROVIDERS
Some new Instances and Network Cost Changes

AWS

AWS has launched new C8gn instances powered by their latest Graviton4 processors. These instances offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and are designed for network-heavy workloads like firewalls, load balancers, and data analytics.

For Windows container users, AWS now provides ECS-optimized AMIs for Windows Server 2025.

AWS Transform has also introduced new cost analysis tools that make it easier to understand complex expenses like EBS spending and network costs.

Microsoft Azure

Azure has released a new Price Sheet API for customers on modern commerce agreements. This API lets users programmatically access official Azure service pricing.

Google Cloud

Google Cloud made a significant user experience improvement by displaying custom negotiated prices directly in the console's pricing table. Previously, users had to reference contracts or separate documents to see their special pricing. Now, negotiated rates appear alongside standard pricing, making cost estimation and spending analysis much more straightforward.

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OPEN SOURCE
AWS CUR Data Anonymizer Tool

Frank Contrepois (the FinOps Guys Red Glasses member, love u) has created a simple Python tool called CUR-Anonymiser that helps companies clean up their AWS billing data before sharing it with others.

AWS Cost and Usage Reports contain detailed billing information that companies use to track their cloud spending. But these reports are full of sensitive details like account numbers and resource names that you wouldn't want to share outside your organization. This tool solves that problem by letting you:

• Remove sensitive account IDs and replace them with fake ones that stay consistent throughout your data

• Strip out Amazon Resource Names and swap them with anonymous versions

• Delete entire columns you don't need

• Keep the useful cost and usage patterns intact

The setup is straightforward. You install two Python packages, run a command to create a config file, edit that file to tell the tool what to keep or remove, then run the anonymizer on your data files.

The tool uses DuckDB to handle the heavy lifting with Parquet files, which means it runs fast without needing complex big data tools like Spark. Everything happens on your own computer - no uploading sensitive data to cloud services.

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📺️ VIDEO
Expert Masterclass: FOCUS Success Case in Azure

In this Masterclass, we teach you how to design an event-driven architecture based on Azure Functions that processes billing information and divides costs using a combination of general rules and specific allocations that can be managed and pre-set in advance. Using FOCUS and Power BI

🎖️ MENTION OF HONOUR
FinOps Spend Dashboard with FOCUS v1.2 Insights

The project made by Izadora Sobral uses FOCUS v1.2 standards to build dashboards for examining cloud spending. This includes looking at costs from Cloud, SaaS, and PaaS systems, helping to check and plan expenses better.

Key highlights of this solution include:

The data model is carefully designed to match FOCUS v1.2 rules.

It uses a realistic dataset to test different cloud cost scenarios.

The project provides clear views of costs, savings, and trends.

The solution offers two types of dashboards:

Executive Summary Dashboard: This is for managers looking for quick overviews. It shows ideas like total vs. effective spending and savings percentage.

Detailed Analysis Dashboard: This is for deeper dives into spending by service and region, helping analysts plan better.

The dataset is built to give a full look at costs using important elements like currency, provider, service name, and more. Power BI and DAX are the main tools used to create these insightful dashboards.

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Professional Spotlight
Izadora Sobral

FinOps Dashboard Genius

One of the best Open Source contributors to FinOps. Izadora has created several dashboards you can check in her Github Profile. Great to have contributors like her in the FinOps Weekly Community!

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