#finops

#finops

Cloud costs are your canary in the coal mine - and a security signal too. Imagine you're staring at your cloud dashboard, and bam - a sudden spike in spending hits you. It's not just burning cash; it's waving a red flag for potential security holes. That unexplained surge in Kubernetes pods? Could be a sneaky cryptojacker. Or those idle EC2 instances racking up bills?

AWS recently announced that its Budgets service now supports an enhancement in Billing View, a change that enables organizations to better manage and monitor cross-account cloud costs. With this new feature, users can create budgets that span multiple member accounts without requiring access to the management account, which helps streamline budget management while maintaining security best practices.

Moving to the cloud gives businesses unprecedented agility, scalability and on-demand resource provisioning, but it can also lead to uncontrolled cloud spending.