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FinOps Field Guides

Cut your cloud bill, one platform at a time.

Five long-form guides — one per platform — with the exact patterns, diagnostic queries, and savings estimates we use on every CARTIE AI customer audit. No fluff. Bookmark them.

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Amazon Web Services

AWS Cost Optimization: The Complete Guide for FinOps Teams (2026)

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud platform in the world — and the source of more than half of the cloud waste we audit. This guide gives you the 14 prove…

32% · Average waste in AWS bills60% of waste · Top 3 patterns21 days · Median time-to-savings
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14 patterns · ~10 min read
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Microsoft Azure

Azure Cost Optimization: The Complete Guide for FinOps Teams (2026)

Azure spend is exploding — second only to AWS in customer audits we run. This guide is the 12-pattern playbook for cutting Azure bills, with concrete portal pat…

29% · Average waste in Azure bills55% of waste · Top 3 patterns18 days · Median time-to-savings
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12 patterns · ~10 min read
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Google Cloud Platform

GCP Cost Optimization: The Complete Guide for FinOps Teams (2026)

GCP's pricing model is the cleanest of the big three — but that doesn't mean cheap. The two biggest GCP cost levers (Committed Use Discounts and BigQuery slot m…

24% · Average waste in GCP bills40% · BigQuery share of waste14 days · Median time-to-savings
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11 patterns · ~10 min read
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Snowflake Data Cloud

Snowflake Cost Optimization: The Complete Guide (2026)

Snowflake bills 10x more than people expect because the pricing is workload-based and most teams have never tuned a warehouse. This guide gives you the 9 patter…

38% · Average waste in Snowflake$200-500/day · Auto-suspend impact7 days · Median time-to-savings
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9 patterns · ~10 min read
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Databricks Lakehouse

Databricks Cost Optimization: The Complete Guide (2026)

Databricks bills explode quietly — Photon's 2x DBU markup, idle clusters at the 120-minute default, and Serverless's convenience premium combine into a stack th…

42% · Average waste in Databricks23% of DBUs · Idle minutes share21 days · Median time-to-savings
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10 patterns · ~10 min read

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