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How to audit idle VMs in AWS and GCP: where to start
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.
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Free cloud cost tools: two calculators, 135 priced instance pages
No signup: two free calculators and priced AWS & GCP instance pages to check idle cloud waste before you provision.
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From 'ship it' to 'shut it down': how DevOps changed from 2016 to 2026
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.
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Minus $5,000 for the weekend. How a forgotten deployment turned into a product
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.