The conventional wisdom: platform engineering owns developer productivity, FinOps owns cloud cost. The conventional wisdom is wrong.
The decisions that drive cloud cost — instance types, auto-scaling configs, region choices, service tiers — are made by platform engineers. If FinOps is a separate team that audits these decisions after the fact, you’re fighting yesterday’s costs forever.
Embed FinOps practices inside platform engineering. Cost is a first-class metric on the platform team’s dashboard, alongside latency and uptime. Reference architectures include cost considerations as code. FinOps reviews happen with the engineers who own the workloads, not in a separate meeting.
The organizations that combine these functions reduce cloud spend 25-35% and sustain it. The ones that keep them separate run quarterly fire drills.
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