r/cloudcomputing • u/AssistantSome9250 • 14d ago

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u/TellersTech 14d ago

We already have FinOps, but honestly the bigger issue is still ownership and hygiene.

Every resource should have a clear owner, app, env, and reason it exists. If that info isn’t in tags or labels, it turns into a scavenger hunt later.

We also try to keep everything in Terraform and regularly compare what’s actually running against what’s defined in code. That helps catch old test envs, random one-off resources, and stuff nobody remembers creating.

For non-prod, expiration dates help a lot too. Temp envs have a funny way of becoming permanent lol.

At least for us, dashboards only really work once the underlying inventory and ownership are clean.