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CloudCostChefs: Serving free FinOps recipes & tools to help engineers master #FinOps, #Azure, #OCI & multi-cloud cost optimization. 🍳☁️
Unit Cost Explained
Unit Cost = the chef's favorite metric. How much does it cost to serve one customer? One transaction? One API request? Get this right, and you know your business. Measure it weekly, optimize relentlessly. This is FinOps gold. 🍲
#FinOps
Unit Cost = the chef's favorite metric. How much does it cost to serve one customer? One transaction? One API request? Get this right, and you know your business. Measure it weekly, optimize relentlessly. This is FinOps gold. 🍲
#FinOps
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Unit Cost Explained
Unit Cost = the chef's favorite metric. How much does it cost to serve one customer? One transaction? One API request? Get this right, and you know your business. Measure it weekly, optimize relentlessly. This is FinOps gold. 🍲
#FinOps
Unit Cost = the chef's favorite metric. How much does it cost to serve one customer? One transaction? One API request? Get this right, and you know your business. Measure it weekly, optimize relentlessly. This is FinOps gold. 🍲
#FinOps
Sunday Prep: Declare One Cloud Clean-Up Target for the Week 🛠️
Pick one target:
• Run the Shadow Waste Assessment tool and act on it.
• Evaluate or pilot a new FinOps tool.
• Clean up multi-cloud cost visibility or data transfer structure.
• Map cloud resource-carbon links and track them.
Pick one target:
• Run the Shadow Waste Assessment tool and act on it.
• Evaluate or pilot a new FinOps tool.
• Clean up multi-cloud cost visibility or data transfer structure.
• Map cloud resource-carbon links and track them.
October 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sunday Prep: Declare One Cloud Clean-Up Target for the Week 🛠️
Pick one target:
• Run the Shadow Waste Assessment tool and act on it.
• Evaluate or pilot a new FinOps tool.
• Clean up multi-cloud cost visibility or data transfer structure.
• Map cloud resource-carbon links and track them.
Pick one target:
• Run the Shadow Waste Assessment tool and act on it.
• Evaluate or pilot a new FinOps tool.
• Clean up multi-cloud cost visibility or data transfer structure.
• Map cloud resource-carbon links and track them.
Reflection Saturday: What Insight Changed How You See Your Cloud Bill This Week? 🪞🔄
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste stat, a new tool discovery, or that multi-cloud leak you spotted. Whatever it was — share it and let’s reflect together.
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste stat, a new tool discovery, or that multi-cloud leak you spotted. Whatever it was — share it and let’s reflect together.
October 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Reflection Saturday: What Insight Changed How You See Your Cloud Bill This Week? 🪞🔄
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste stat, a new tool discovery, or that multi-cloud leak you spotted. Whatever it was — share it and let’s reflect together.
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste stat, a new tool discovery, or that multi-cloud leak you spotted. Whatever it was — share it and let’s reflect together.
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #16: Don’t Overcrowd the Pan 🍳👥
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoil the dish — too many workloads on one cluster drive up cost, contention and noise."
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoil the dish — too many workloads on one cluster drive up cost, contention and noise."
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #16: Don’t Overcrowd the Pan 🍳👥
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoil the dish — too many workloads on one cluster drive up cost, contention and noise."
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoil the dish — too many workloads on one cluster drive up cost, contention and noise."
🚨 Prompty McCloudface is waving his magic wand: 'Unlock AI magic or feel the spatula!'
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#GenAIHacks #AIPrompts
😤 Unlock pro-level outputs with our NEW AI Prompt Pack—100+ copy-paste gems for ChatGPT, Claude, & more! Creators, marketers, noobs: Level up NOW at aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com
#GenAIHacks #AIPrompts
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨 Prompty McCloudface is waving his magic wand: 'Unlock AI magic or feel the spatula!'
😤 Unlock pro-level outputs with our NEW AI Prompt Pack—100+ copy-paste gems for ChatGPT, Claude, & more! Creators, marketers, noobs: Level up NOW at aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com
#GenAIHacks #AIPrompts
😤 Unlock pro-level outputs with our NEW AI Prompt Pack—100+ copy-paste gems for ChatGPT, Claude, & more! Creators, marketers, noobs: Level up NOW at aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com
#GenAIHacks #AIPrompts
Post-MBA vibes: Global strategies gone wild! 🌍 Launching Prompty McCloudface's Wild Adventures Weekly! Episode 1: Wild Cloud Safari—cook up savings against cost beasts in the jungle! 🍲💻 Hits Sunday in the Nerdletter. Who's in? #PromptySafari #CloudCostChefs
October 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Post-MBA vibes: Global strategies gone wild! 🌍 Launching Prompty McCloudface's Wild Adventures Weekly! Episode 1: Wild Cloud Safari—cook up savings against cost beasts in the jungle! 🍲💻 Hits Sunday in the Nerdletter. Who's in? #PromptySafari #CloudCostChefs
Sunday Prep: Declare One Cloud Clean-Up Target for the Week 🛠️
Pick one target:
• Run Shadow Waste Assessment
• Evaluate or trial a FinOps tool
• Add cluster/workload de-crowding
• Estimate carbon intensity / link cost to CO₂
Drop your target below—public accountability helps execution.
Pick one target:
• Run Shadow Waste Assessment
• Evaluate or trial a FinOps tool
• Add cluster/workload de-crowding
• Estimate carbon intensity / link cost to CO₂
Drop your target below—public accountability helps execution.
October 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Sunday Prep: Declare One Cloud Clean-Up Target for the Week 🛠️
Pick one target:
• Run Shadow Waste Assessment
• Evaluate or trial a FinOps tool
• Add cluster/workload de-crowding
• Estimate carbon intensity / link cost to CO₂
Drop your target below—public accountability helps execution.
Pick one target:
• Run Shadow Waste Assessment
• Evaluate or trial a FinOps tool
• Add cluster/workload de-crowding
• Estimate carbon intensity / link cost to CO₂
Drop your target below—public accountability helps execution.
Reflection Saturday: What New Insight Shifted Your Cloud Thinking This Week? 🔄🧠
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste, new tool discoveries, multi-cloud strategies, or GreenOps connections. What changed your lens?
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste, new tool discoveries, multi-cloud strategies, or GreenOps connections. What changed your lens?
October 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reflection Saturday: What New Insight Shifted Your Cloud Thinking This Week? 🔄🧠
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste, new tool discoveries, multi-cloud strategies, or GreenOps connections. What changed your lens?
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste, new tool discoveries, multi-cloud strategies, or GreenOps connections. What changed your lens?
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #16: Don’t Overcrowd the Pan 🍳👥
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoils the dish—too many workloads on one cluster drive up costs, contention, and noise.”
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoils the dish—too many workloads on one cluster drive up costs, contention, and noise.”
October 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #16: Don’t Overcrowd the Pan 🍳👥
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoils the dish—too many workloads on one cluster drive up costs, contention, and noise.”
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoils the dish—too many workloads on one cluster drive up costs, contention, and noise.”
Sunday Prep: Pick One Cloud Efficiency Move to Try This Week 🛠️
Here are ideas:
• Try the Shadow Waste Assessment tool
• Set up resource usage forecasts for storage or compute
• Review your mix: serverless vs containers vs VMs
• Explore greener provider/region options
Here are ideas:
• Try the Shadow Waste Assessment tool
• Set up resource usage forecasts for storage or compute
• Review your mix: serverless vs containers vs VMs
• Explore greener provider/region options
September 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sunday Prep: Pick One Cloud Efficiency Move to Try This Week 🛠️
Here are ideas:
• Try the Shadow Waste Assessment tool
• Set up resource usage forecasts for storage or compute
• Review your mix: serverless vs containers vs VMs
• Explore greener provider/region options
Here are ideas:
• Try the Shadow Waste Assessment tool
• Set up resource usage forecasts for storage or compute
• Review your mix: serverless vs containers vs VMs
• Explore greener provider/region options
🎙️ New CloudCostChefs episode is FIRE
We dug deep and found hidden AWS & Azure features that could literally save your team thousands monthly. Not the usual recycled tips – actual community discoveries that mainstream coverage totally missed.
We dug deep and found hidden AWS & Azure features that could literally save your team thousands monthly. Not the usual recycled tips – actual community discoveries that mainstream coverage totally missed.
September 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎙️ New CloudCostChefs episode is FIRE
We dug deep and found hidden AWS & Azure features that could literally save your team thousands monthly. Not the usual recycled tips – actual community discoveries that mainstream coverage totally missed.
We dug deep and found hidden AWS & Azure features that could literally save your team thousands monthly. Not the usual recycled tips – actual community discoveries that mainstream coverage totally missed.
Reflection Saturday: What Tool or Trend Made Your Cloud Bill Blink This Week? ⚡👀
Did you try predictive forecasts, shadow waste tools, or GreenCloud tax ideas? What made you rethink your assumptions?
Chef Tip: Sometimes a single insight can unlock weeks of savings.
Did you try predictive forecasts, shadow waste tools, or GreenCloud tax ideas? What made you rethink your assumptions?
Chef Tip: Sometimes a single insight can unlock weeks of savings.
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reflection Saturday: What Tool or Trend Made Your Cloud Bill Blink This Week? ⚡👀
Did you try predictive forecasts, shadow waste tools, or GreenCloud tax ideas? What made you rethink your assumptions?
Chef Tip: Sometimes a single insight can unlock weeks of savings.
Did you try predictive forecasts, shadow waste tools, or GreenCloud tax ideas? What made you rethink your assumptions?
Chef Tip: Sometimes a single insight can unlock weeks of savings.
🏋️ The Gym Membership
Your cloud bill is like your gym membership.
You’re paying for 24/7 access and premium equipment…
but you only use the treadmill once a week.
You provisioned for Black Friday traffic that never came.
Your auto-scaling groups are scaling your anxiety, not your app.
Your cloud bill is like your gym membership.
You’re paying for 24/7 access and premium equipment…
but you only use the treadmill once a week.
You provisioned for Black Friday traffic that never came.
Your auto-scaling groups are scaling your anxiety, not your app.
September 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🏋️ The Gym Membership
Your cloud bill is like your gym membership.
You’re paying for 24/7 access and premium equipment…
but you only use the treadmill once a week.
You provisioned for Black Friday traffic that never came.
Your auto-scaling groups are scaling your anxiety, not your app.
Your cloud bill is like your gym membership.
You’re paying for 24/7 access and premium equipment…
but you only use the treadmill once a week.
You provisioned for Black Friday traffic that never came.
Your auto-scaling groups are scaling your anxiety, not your app.
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #15: Taste Before You Season 👅🧂
“A pinch too much salt ruins a dish—over-provisioning ruins budgets.”
“A pinch too much salt ruins a dish—over-provisioning ruins budgets.”
September 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #15: Taste Before You Season 👅🧂
“A pinch too much salt ruins a dish—over-provisioning ruins budgets.”
“A pinch too much salt ruins a dish—over-provisioning ruins budgets.”
🚀 Mind = blown. Just learned how graph theory is revolutionizing cloud cost optimization
New CloudCostChefs special episode shows how to map your entire cloud infrastructure as a connected graph to find hidden savings.
New CloudCostChefs special episode shows how to map your entire cloud infrastructure as a connected graph to find hidden savings.
September 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🚀 Mind = blown. Just learned how graph theory is revolutionizing cloud cost optimization
New CloudCostChefs special episode shows how to map your entire cloud infrastructure as a connected graph to find hidden savings.
New CloudCostChefs special episode shows how to map your entire cloud infrastructure as a connected graph to find hidden savings.
🪞 The Uncomfortable Mirror
Your cloud bill isn’t high because cloud is expensive.
It’s high because your engineers are bored.
Complexity is entertainment for smart people.
That “microservices architecture” needing 47 cloud services?
It’s not solving business problems.
It’s solving résumé problems.
Your cloud bill isn’t high because cloud is expensive.
It’s high because your engineers are bored.
Complexity is entertainment for smart people.
That “microservices architecture” needing 47 cloud services?
It’s not solving business problems.
It’s solving résumé problems.
September 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🪞 The Uncomfortable Mirror
Your cloud bill isn’t high because cloud is expensive.
It’s high because your engineers are bored.
Complexity is entertainment for smart people.
That “microservices architecture” needing 47 cloud services?
It’s not solving business problems.
It’s solving résumé problems.
Your cloud bill isn’t high because cloud is expensive.
It’s high because your engineers are bored.
Complexity is entertainment for smart people.
That “microservices architecture” needing 47 cloud services?
It’s not solving business problems.
It’s solving résumé problems.
Sunday Prep: One GreenOps or FinOps Experiment to Try This Week 🛠️🌱
Pick one from below and try it out:
• Run Shadow Waste Assessment to find leaks
• Add “expiration tags” to staging/test resources
• Build a small FinOps as Code check in your CI/CD pipeline
Pick one from below and try it out:
• Run Shadow Waste Assessment to find leaks
• Add “expiration tags” to staging/test resources
• Build a small FinOps as Code check in your CI/CD pipeline
September 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sunday Prep: One GreenOps or FinOps Experiment to Try This Week 🛠️🌱
Pick one from below and try it out:
• Run Shadow Waste Assessment to find leaks
• Add “expiration tags” to staging/test resources
• Build a small FinOps as Code check in your CI/CD pipeline
Pick one from below and try it out:
• Run Shadow Waste Assessment to find leaks
• Add “expiration tags” to staging/test resources
• Build a small FinOps as Code check in your CI/CD pipeline
💰 Just discovered Azure is quietly offering at-cost data transfer refunds and hardly anyone knows about it
September 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
💰 Just discovered Azure is quietly offering at-cost data transfer refunds and hardly anyone knows about it
Reflection Saturday: What Cost Trend Surprised You This Week? 🌟🔍
Did you learn about surprising AI cost growth, unexpected cloud waste, or a new tool like Shadow Waste Assessment? I’d love to hear which cost news made you pause.
Did you learn about surprising AI cost growth, unexpected cloud waste, or a new tool like Shadow Waste Assessment? I’d love to hear which cost news made you pause.
September 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reflection Saturday: What Cost Trend Surprised You This Week? 🌟🔍
Did you learn about surprising AI cost growth, unexpected cloud waste, or a new tool like Shadow Waste Assessment? I’d love to hear which cost news made you pause.
Did you learn about surprising AI cost growth, unexpected cloud waste, or a new tool like Shadow Waste Assessment? I’d love to hear which cost news made you pause.
🚨 The “Zombie VM” Take
Most cloud waste isn’t complex — it’s stupid. Zombie VMs, idle load balancers, forgotten test environments. I’ve seen companies spend $50k/month on resources literally serving zero traffic. The cheapest resource is the one you delete.
Most cloud waste isn’t complex — it’s stupid. Zombie VMs, idle load balancers, forgotten test environments. I’ve seen companies spend $50k/month on resources literally serving zero traffic. The cheapest resource is the one you delete.
September 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🚨 The “Zombie VM” Take
Most cloud waste isn’t complex — it’s stupid. Zombie VMs, idle load balancers, forgotten test environments. I’ve seen companies spend $50k/month on resources literally serving zero traffic. The cheapest resource is the one you delete.
Most cloud waste isn’t complex — it’s stupid. Zombie VMs, idle load balancers, forgotten test environments. I’ve seen companies spend $50k/month on resources literally serving zero traffic. The cheapest resource is the one you delete.
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #13: Clean as You Cook 🧽🍳
“Mess piles up fast—so do zombie resources.”
“Mess piles up fast—so do zombie resources.”
September 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #13: Clean as You Cook 🧽🍳
“Mess piles up fast—so do zombie resources.”
“Mess piles up fast—so do zombie resources.”
The “Emperor Has No Clothes” Take
AWS makes more profit margin than Louis Vuitton. They’re not a tech company, they’re a pricing complexity company. Every new service they launch is designed to make the bill harder to understand. If AWS simplified pricing tomorrow, their stock would crash 30%.
AWS makes more profit margin than Louis Vuitton. They’re not a tech company, they’re a pricing complexity company. Every new service they launch is designed to make the bill harder to understand. If AWS simplified pricing tomorrow, their stock would crash 30%.
September 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The “Emperor Has No Clothes” Take
AWS makes more profit margin than Louis Vuitton. They’re not a tech company, they’re a pricing complexity company. Every new service they launch is designed to make the bill harder to understand. If AWS simplified pricing tomorrow, their stock would crash 30%.
AWS makes more profit margin than Louis Vuitton. They’re not a tech company, they’re a pricing complexity company. Every new service they launch is designed to make the bill harder to understand. If AWS simplified pricing tomorrow, their stock would crash 30%.
Sunday Prep: One GreenOps Move 🌅
Choose one: consolidate workloads, clean up logs, or right-size clusters.
Drop your move for the week below 👇
Choose one: consolidate workloads, clean up logs, or right-size clusters.
Drop your move for the week below 👇
September 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Sunday Prep: One GreenOps Move 🌅
Choose one: consolidate workloads, clean up logs, or right-size clusters.
Drop your move for the week below 👇
Choose one: consolidate workloads, clean up logs, or right-size clusters.
Drop your move for the week below 👇
New CloudCostChefs episode: September's MASSIVE cloud cost wins! 🚀
Fellow cloud practitioners - this could save you thousands monthly. Thread with the highlights... 👇
Fellow cloud practitioners - this could save you thousands monthly. Thread with the highlights... 👇
September 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New CloudCostChefs episode: September's MASSIVE cloud cost wins! 🚀
Fellow cloud practitioners - this could save you thousands monthly. Thread with the highlights... 👇
Fellow cloud practitioners - this could save you thousands monthly. Thread with the highlights... 👇
Reflection Saturday: What Cloud Chore Do You Wish You Automated Sooner? 🪞⚡
Every kitchen has that one task you kept doing manually for way too long… until automation saved the day.
Every kitchen has that one task you kept doing manually for way too long… until automation saved the day.
September 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reflection Saturday: What Cloud Chore Do You Wish You Automated Sooner? 🪞⚡
Every kitchen has that one task you kept doing manually for way too long… until automation saved the day.
Every kitchen has that one task you kept doing manually for way too long… until automation saved the day.