Should you buy a FinOps tool, build your own or use existing native tools?

If you were put in charge of FinOps in a large company, what would be your approach?

The FinOps Framework is well established, but I believe there's a flaw in its sequence of actions.

We could prevent half of the pain of the FinOps cycle with this simple principle

Do you have continuous cycles of cost optimizations? Then you are fixing the problem symptoms, not the root cause.

Saving costs by optimizing cloud rates and usage. Is that really what FinOps about?

Before you start tagging your cloud resources you need a tagging strategy. Here are some guidelines and best practices for you.