Cloud Cost Guardrails: FinOps for Busy Teams

Tag everything. Set budgets and alerts. Enforce right-sizing and lifecycle policies. Prefer managed services when total cost of ownership beats DIY.

1. Tags: owner, env, app, cost-center.
2. Budgets: alerts at 50/75/90%.
3. Savings: autoscaling, schedules, and spot/preemptible where safe.

FinOps isn’t a gate—it’s a seatbelt.