Cloud cost optimization, FinOps, and the day-to-day habits behind a smaller bill.
How a 20-developer remote team replaced laptops with hardened AWS VMs we run for them: about $51 a month each, minutes to onboard, no long-lived keys to leak.
Dev VMs run 168 hours a week and get used for about 45. What AWS, Google Cloud and State of FinOps 2026 say, and six questions an idle VM audit must answer.
No signup: two free calculators and priced AWS & GCP instance pages to check idle cloud waste before you provision.
DevOps shifted from shipping speed to cost control. A case study where one team cut up to 67% of dev VM spend by killing idle infra.
A forgotten Friday deployment burned $5K over a weekend. The fix wasn't a smarter alarm — it was flipping the default. The origin story behind Idlefy.