Capability 16 / 18
Cost & FinOps
Right-sizing infrastructure so performance never comes with a runaway bill.
Cost is an architecture decision, not a finance-team afterthought — every choice about redundancy, autoscaling headroom, and data retention has a dollar figure attached, whether or not anyone's looking at it. FinOps discipline means that figure is visible before it shows up as a surprise on next month's bill.
Done well, this isn't about cutting corners — it's about right-sizing: matching infrastructure spend to actual load and actual risk tolerance, so cost, capacity, and resilience get decided together.
What this looks like in practice
- •Cost, capacity, and risk stewardship reviewed as one conversation, not three separate ones
- •Autoscaling and reserved-capacity strategy matched to real, observed traffic patterns
- •Cost visibility built into the platform, not left for a quarterly finance review
- •Trade-offs between spend and resilience made explicit, and revisited as the system grows