About this episode
A CFO opens an Azure bill.It’s $2.8 million higher than last quarter. No one can explain why. That’s not a spike.That’s systemic failure. Cloud promises elasticity, savings, and control.But without governance, it becomes a financial black hole. Core Thesis:The cloud does not make you efficient.It only gives you the capability to be efficient. Act 1 — The Day Finance Noticed Six months earlier, migration was declared a success:Datacenters shut downWorkloads moved“Cloud-first” celebrationMeanwhile:? Reserved Instances unused? Zombie VMs from failed projects? Dev/test running 24/7? No tagging enforcement? No workload classificationElasticity without discipline became a cost accelerant. Anatomy of Waste Part 1 — Idle Infrastructure Typical Enterprise Findings:27–32% of cloud spend = orphaned resourcesUnattached disks, snapshots, unused IPs18–42% of compute idle or
