We gathered three FinOps experts to share some cloud bill red flags, such as items in your cloud bill that may be reflective of an anti-pattern or overspending (and what you should be doing instead).

Key Moments

3:23 – 5:08: Red Flag #1: CloudTrail is high up on your bill (or you’re paying for it at all)
5:21 – 7:25: Red Flag #2: Storage costs steadily increasing due to lack of lifecycle policies
7:49 – 10:07: Red Flag #3: getMetricData API costs from CloudWatch are high
11:05 – 13:30: Red Flag #4: Over-logging your services
13:44 – 18:18: How much should you spend on logging vs. overall infrastructure costs? What’s a good rule of thumb?
18:55 – 22:12: How can you learn to ask the right questions of your cloud bill?
23:31 – 25:59: Red Flag #5: You’re not checking your decisions with other people or teams
28:10 – 30:26: Red Flag #6: Not limiting regions / instance types with org policies
30:45 – 35:18: Red Flag #7: Excess API calls to storage buckets