If the “perfect” FinOps strategy lives in a spreadsheet called COST_OPTIMIZATION.xlsx... Then Terraform runs in PowerPoint, pigs fly, and engineers love email reports.

DynamoDB tip you’ll wish you knew sooner ☁️ 🚀 Here’s our very own in-house rockstar, Dor Azouri, VP Research, with a simple way to make sure old irrelevant data isn’t costing you money. TTL (Time to Live) auto-deletes old items—and skips the usual delete charges. To turn it

Visibility ≠ accountability. Sound familiar?

Shhh… if we don’t assign it, maybe the $417K goes away. Visibility ≠ accountability. Sound familiar?

You’ve got the dashboards. You’ve got the CUR reports. You’ve even got exec buy-in. And yet… nothing changes. What’s the most frustrating FinOps blocker you keep running into? We’re mapping this out internally! Vote below and help us rank the real roadblocks👇

What’s the most annoying FinOps blocker?

When You Spend More Time Manually Tagging Than Actually Using the Cloud Manually tagging cloud resources is the cloud version of filling out tax forms… Painfully tedious. Absolutely necessary... And guaranteed to ruin your afternoon. Here’s to leaving manual tagging where it

🎉 It’s New Customer Appreciation Time! This month, we're proud to shine the light on Infor, a global powerhouse in business cloud software 🚀 With over 60,000 customers worldwide, they’ve already mastered scale. Now they’re making their cloud waste optimization smarter,

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If another hotel bar cocktail party sounds like a rerun from last year, we’ve got something better. 🚀 Join us at the San Diego Air & Space Museum for the ultimate FinOps X after-hours experience. We’re talking full access to simulators, 4D theater, and the entire museum. And

When You Spend More Time Manually Tagging Than Actually Using the Cloud Manually tagging cloud resources is the cloud version of filling out tax forms... painfully tedious, absolutely necessary, and guaranteed to ruin your afternoon. Here's to a better way!

Heading to AWS Summit London next week? 👋 Swing by booth #5. We’ll be talking everything AWS inefficiencies, engineering-led FinOps, and how to surface the issues that truly make the difference. Come connect with our superstar team in person. 🤩 Can’t wait to see you there.

“They’re… speaking the same language.” Everyone else: "What in the FinOps–Engineering sorcery is this? 🫢" #FinOps #DevOps #CloudCulture

From starting as a barista to running FinOps for a Fortune 500. Hunter Harris didn’t know it at the time, but being thoughtful behind the counter at Starbucks shaped everything that came after. “I told myself, be great at whatever you do. Know the regulars. Make their day

🙌 Appreciation post 🙌 - Why We Love Our 5X Research Team Most FinOps tools focus on surface-level cost insights. Our team goes deeper, finding inefficiencies that are easy to miss and hard to fix. They read the manuals, test configurations, and figure out the why behind

"Who needs automation when you’ve got a "v9_final-version"ed spreadsheet?"

👻 We want to hear your best cloud spend horror story. Winner gets Apple AirPods or a $250 gift card, delivered straight to your door 🎁🔥 Inspired by real tales on Reddit, we’re collecting the worst infra nightmares you’ve lived through. 🎧 Drop your story below. The best one

SPOPP it, lock it, and optimize it! Evaluating cost optimization tools? AWS just handed you up to 20,000 more reasons to choose PointFive. We’re officially in the AWS Strategic Partner Opportunity Program (SPOPP). That means AWS will subsidize your cost savings when you run

"Is this a storage charge or a cross-region data transfer or a... what even IS this?" Cloud cost chaos isn’t just real, it’s confusing. Time for an overhaul! No more billing files that read like legal contracts. No more dashboards that surface “savings” but never how to fix it.

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