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Engineering notes on cloud cost & FinOps

Practical guides, written by the team building Lumicost. No fluff, no vendor speak — just what works in production.

• May 6, 2026·5 min read

  Why your cloud migration calculator is lying to you (and how to read it anyway)

  Vendor calculators quote a flat ‘save 40%’. The real number depends on RIs, egress and shape match. Here is the framework we use at Lumicost to score a migration honestly.

  • migration
  • finops
  • aws
  • gcp
  • azure
  • oci
• Jan 15, 2026·3 min read

  The 2026 FinOps Checklist: 14 actions to cut your cloud bill 30%

  A field-tested FinOps checklist for engineering teams running on AWS, GCP, Azure or Kubernetes. Concrete actions, ordered by ROI.

  • finops
  • cost-optimization
  • kubernetes
  • aws
  • gcp

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