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FinOps, in production

Practical, sourced guides to FinOps across the stack: AWS, Snowflake, Matillion, GitHub, Postgres and Power BI. Every guide covers what to measure, what to optimize, and what AI and LLM agents can do about it.

A stacked bar chart showing AWS cost breakdown: EC2 at 38 percent, data transfer at 18 percent, RDS at 15 percent, S3 at 12 percent, Lambda at 8 percent, and other services at 9 percent.

Engineering

AWS FinOps: the cost levers that actually move the needle

Five AWS services drive 80 percent of spend. Rightsizing, commitment discounts and storage tiering pull hardest, and the FinOps Agent automates the triage.

By Lars Cornelissen · Aug 11, 2026

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A stacked bar chart showing GitHub cost breakdown: Actions minutes at 45 percent, Copilot seats at 30 percent, Codespaces at 15 percent, and Packages storage at 10 percent.

FinOps

GitHub FinOps: Actions minutes, Copilot seats and the cost of AI coding at scale

A dev team's GitHub bill has four parts: Actions, Copilot, Codespaces and Packages. AI agents multiply the Actions bill. The levers are runner and seat audits.