AWS FinOps for Cloud Ops Teams — Week 7: Running Effective FinOps Reviews
How to run cost reviews with engineering teams without it feeling like a blame session — agendas, accountability, and the cultural side of FinOps.
Series · 7/7
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The Musings of Nirav Kadakia
Cloud • DevOps • Notes from the field
Writing about Cloud, DevOps, and sports.
Deep dives, practical how-tos, and honest notes from building and running systems in the cloud— from AWS architectures to the realities of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and production firefighting. No fluff—just the things I wish I knew sooner.
Bonus content: random (and occasionally painful) thoughts about the Yankees and Giants.
Cloud & DevOps
Notes from running cloud, DevOps, and SRE in production.
AWS FinOps for Cloud Ops Teams — Week 6: Dashboards & Cost Tracking with Grafana
Pulling Cost Explorer data into Grafana via Prometheus Pushgateway, plus the dashboard panels and alerts that make the monthly review boring (in a good way).
Series · 6/7
AWS FinOps for Cloud Ops Teams — Week 5: Governance with Cloud Custodian
Using Cloud Custodian (c7n) to keep tagging compliant and waste in check across 40+ AWS accounts with policy-as-code.
Series · 5/7
AWS FinOps for Cloud Ops Teams — Week 4: Rightsizing & Waste Reduction
Practical patterns for finding and removing the idle, oversized, and forgotten resources that quietly compound across 40+ AWS accounts.
Series · 4/7
AWS FinOps for Cloud Ops Teams — Week 3: Reserved Instances & Savings Plans
How to use Reserved Instances and Savings Plans to cut steady-state compute costs across 40+ AWS accounts without committing yourself into a corner.
Series · 3/7
AWS FinOps for Cloud Ops Teams — Week 2: Cost Visibility & Tagging at Scale
A practical tagging strategy for 40+ AWS accounts. Required tags, enforcement with SCPs and Tag Policies, and using Cost Explorer to actually answer cost questions.
Series · 2/7
AWS FinOps for Cloud Ops Teams — Week 1: Why It Matters at Scale
What FinOps is, why it matters when you're running 40+ AWS accounts, and what the next six weeks of this series will cover.
Series · 1/7
Incident Management & Response: Designing for the Inevitable
Managing incidents, response, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA). A guide to ensuring you have the right observability and the right plan when the inevitable happens.
Moving Security to the Left: Making It Practical (and Sustainable)
Move security left by embedding focused security checks—SAST, SCA, container scanning, and DAST—directly into your CI/CD pipeline. Analyze only what changes, prevent new risk from reaching production, and address legacy vulnerabilities incrementally with clear accountability.
Sports notes
Random (and occasionally painful) thoughts on the Yankees and Giants.
Remembering John Sterling, the Voice of My Yankees
A personal tribute to the longtime Yankees radio broadcaster who, over thirty years, taught me how to picture the field and love the slow, casual rhythm of baseball through a transistor radio.
Sports