Cloud credit guides
How to find, qualify for, and stack every cloud credit your startup is owed - from startup-program credits to the service credits an outage leaves on the table.
FinOps Fundamentals for Engineering Teams: Visibility, Optimization, and Governance
A practical FinOps primer for engineers: the three phases (visibility, optimization, governance), how the Inform, Optimize, and Operate cycle works, and where SLA credit recovery and billing-accuracy audits fit into the discipline.
August 3, 2026 · 10 min read
How to Audit Your Cloud Bill: A Step-by-Step Invoice Audit That Recovers 1-3% of Spend
A repeatable cloud invoice audit for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Reconcile line items, catch misapplied discounts and metering errors, and recover 1-3% of annual spend most teams leave on the table.
August 3, 2026 · 10 min read
The SLA Credit Claim Process: How to File on AWS, Azure, and GCP
The end-to-end SLA service credit claim process across AWS, Azure, and GCP: filing deadlines, the evidence each provider expects, and exactly how to submit the request so an outage credit actually lands on your invoice.
August 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Stopping Idle Cloud Waste: How to Find and Kill Idle and Orphaned Resources
A hands-on guide to finding and eliminating idle and orphaned cloud resources on AWS, Azure, and GCP: unattached volumes, zombie instances, idle load balancers and NAT gateways, and the safe process to kill them without breaking production.
August 3, 2026 · 10 min read