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CloudCostChefs: Serving free FinOps recipes & tools to help engineers master #FinOps, #Azure, #OCI & multi-cloud cost optimization. 🍳☁️
👨🍳 GPUs are the truffle oil of cloud computing - expensive and often wasted.
14% of compute costs in 2025. Most teams run them at 20-30% utilization 💸
The fix? Monitor like inventory, right-size your instances, use spot for 70% savings.
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14% of compute costs in 2025. Most teams run them at 20-30% utilization 💸
The fix? Monitor like inventory, right-size your instances, use spot for 70% savings.
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#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #GPUCosts
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
👨🍳 GPUs are the truffle oil of cloud computing - expensive and often wasted.
14% of compute costs in 2025. Most teams run them at 20-30% utilization 💸
The fix? Monitor like inventory, right-size your instances, use spot for 70% savings.
🍲 cloudcostchefs.com
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #GPUCosts
14% of compute costs in 2025. Most teams run them at 20-30% utilization 💸
The fix? Monitor like inventory, right-size your instances, use spot for 70% savings.
🍲 cloudcostchefs.com
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #GPUCosts
👨🍳 FinOps Psychology 101: Why do teams overpay for AI models?
Cost anchoring bias. Claude & GPT set the high anchor at $3-15/M tokens. Your brain locked onto "that's the market rate."
Then Mistral arrives: $0.4/$2 per M tokens. Delivers 90% of the performance at 1/8th the cost.
Cost anchoring bias. Claude & GPT set the high anchor at $3-15/M tokens. Your brain locked onto "that's the market rate."
Then Mistral arrives: $0.4/$2 per M tokens. Delivers 90% of the performance at 1/8th the cost.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
👨🍳 FinOps Psychology 101: Why do teams overpay for AI models?
Cost anchoring bias. Claude & GPT set the high anchor at $3-15/M tokens. Your brain locked onto "that's the market rate."
Then Mistral arrives: $0.4/$2 per M tokens. Delivers 90% of the performance at 1/8th the cost.
Cost anchoring bias. Claude & GPT set the high anchor at $3-15/M tokens. Your brain locked onto "that's the market rate."
Then Mistral arrives: $0.4/$2 per M tokens. Delivers 90% of the performance at 1/8th the cost.
Chef's Law #12: Why do teams overprovision? "Just in case" thinking. 🧠 Humans fear scarcity. We buy too much to feel safe. Same in cloud: 4 instances "just in case" costs 60% more than needed. The psychology of overprovisioning—and how to fix it. #FinOps
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November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Chef's Law #12: Why do teams overprovision? "Just in case" thinking. 🧠 Humans fear scarcity. We buy too much to feel safe. Same in cloud: 4 instances "just in case" costs 60% more than needed. The psychology of overprovisioning—and how to fix it. #FinOps
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Friday 5pm: "I'll just leave this dev VM running for a quick test Monday morning" 👨🍳
Monday 9am AWS bill: *Chef's Nightmare Unlocked* 😱💸
That "quick test" just cost you $150 in idle compute. Always. Turn. Off. The. Stove. 🔥
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#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #ChefFails
Monday 9am AWS bill: *Chef's Nightmare Unlocked* 😱💸
That "quick test" just cost you $150 in idle compute. Always. Turn. Off. The. Stove. 🔥
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#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #ChefFails
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Friday 5pm: "I'll just leave this dev VM running for a quick test Monday morning" 👨🍳
Monday 9am AWS bill: *Chef's Nightmare Unlocked* 😱💸
That "quick test" just cost you $150 in idle compute. Always. Turn. Off. The. Stove. 🔥
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#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #ChefFails
Monday 9am AWS bill: *Chef's Nightmare Unlocked* 😱💸
That "quick test" just cost you $150 in idle compute. Always. Turn. Off. The. Stove. 🔥
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#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #ChefFails
Amazon Brine 🍳
Your S3 data doesn't need Standard storage forever—move it to Glacier after 30 days like a slow-brine marinade.
💡 Lifecycle policies = automated prep. Set once, save forever 💰
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Your S3 data doesn't need Standard storage forever—move it to Glacier after 30 days like a slow-brine marinade.
💡 Lifecycle policies = automated prep. Set once, save forever 💰
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#FinOps #CloudCostChefs
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Amazon Brine 🍳
Your S3 data doesn't need Standard storage forever—move it to Glacier after 30 days like a slow-brine marinade.
💡 Lifecycle policies = automated prep. Set once, save forever 💰
🍲 cloudcostchefs.com
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs
Your S3 data doesn't need Standard storage forever—move it to Glacier after 30 days like a slow-brine marinade.
💡 Lifecycle policies = automated prep. Set once, save forever 💰
🍲 cloudcostchefs.com
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs
Chef's Kitchen Rule #47: Prep Once, Reuse All Day 👨🍳
Claude's prompt caching = 90% cost savings + 80% faster response. Cache your system prompts, docs, codebase context for 1 hour. Cache hits cost 10% of normal price.
💡 Start with your longest prompts first 💰
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#FinOps #Prompt
Claude's prompt caching = 90% cost savings + 80% faster response. Cache your system prompts, docs, codebase context for 1 hour. Cache hits cost 10% of normal price.
💡 Start with your longest prompts first 💰
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#FinOps #Prompt
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Chef's Kitchen Rule #47: Prep Once, Reuse All Day 👨🍳
Claude's prompt caching = 90% cost savings + 80% faster response. Cache your system prompts, docs, codebase context for 1 hour. Cache hits cost 10% of normal price.
💡 Start with your longest prompts first 💰
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#FinOps #Prompt
Claude's prompt caching = 90% cost savings + 80% faster response. Cache your system prompts, docs, codebase context for 1 hour. Cache hits cost 10% of normal price.
💡 Start with your longest prompts first 💰
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#FinOps #Prompt
Unit Cost Explained
Unit Cost = the chef's favorite metric. How much does it cost to serve one customer? One transaction? One API request? Get this right, and you know your business. Measure it weekly, optimize relentlessly. This is FinOps gold. 🍲
#FinOps
Unit Cost = the chef's favorite metric. How much does it cost to serve one customer? One transaction? One API request? Get this right, and you know your business. Measure it weekly, optimize relentlessly. This is FinOps gold. 🍲
#FinOps
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Unit Cost Explained
Unit Cost = the chef's favorite metric. How much does it cost to serve one customer? One transaction? One API request? Get this right, and you know your business. Measure it weekly, optimize relentlessly. This is FinOps gold. 🍲
#FinOps
Unit Cost = the chef's favorite metric. How much does it cost to serve one customer? One transaction? One API request? Get this right, and you know your business. Measure it weekly, optimize relentlessly. This is FinOps gold. 🍲
#FinOps
🔥 Stop chasing untagged Azure resources!
Let the Azure Auto-Tagging Function do it for you — real-time, event-driven, zero manual effort.
🔗 cloudcostchefs.com/docs/tools/azure-auto-tagging-function
#Azure #FinOps #Automation #PowerShell
Let the Azure Auto-Tagging Function do it for you — real-time, event-driven, zero manual effort.
🔗 cloudcostchefs.com/docs/tools/azure-auto-tagging-function
#Azure #FinOps #Automation #PowerShell
Azure Auto-Tagging Function - CloudCostChefs Documentation
Comprehensive documentation for the Azure Auto-Tagging Function, a PowerShell-based Azure Function App script designed to automatically tag newly created Azure resources.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🔥 Stop chasing untagged Azure resources!
Let the Azure Auto-Tagging Function do it for you — real-time, event-driven, zero manual effort.
🔗 cloudcostchefs.com/docs/tools/azure-auto-tagging-function
#Azure #FinOps #Automation #PowerShell
Let the Azure Auto-Tagging Function do it for you — real-time, event-driven, zero manual effort.
🔗 cloudcostchefs.com/docs/tools/azure-auto-tagging-function
#Azure #FinOps #Automation #PowerShell
FinOps Waste Reduction ☁️
In every professional kitchen, you minimize waste before you perfect recipes. Same rule applies to cloud costs in 2025.
💡 Waste reduction (idle resources, zombie snapshots) became the #1 FinOps priority — overtaking optimization.
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #WasteReduction
In every professional kitchen, you minimize waste before you perfect recipes. Same rule applies to cloud costs in 2025.
💡 Waste reduction (idle resources, zombie snapshots) became the #1 FinOps priority — overtaking optimization.
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #WasteReduction
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
FinOps Waste Reduction ☁️
In every professional kitchen, you minimize waste before you perfect recipes. Same rule applies to cloud costs in 2025.
💡 Waste reduction (idle resources, zombie snapshots) became the #1 FinOps priority — overtaking optimization.
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #WasteReduction
In every professional kitchen, you minimize waste before you perfect recipes. Same rule applies to cloud costs in 2025.
💡 Waste reduction (idle resources, zombie snapshots) became the #1 FinOps priority — overtaking optimization.
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #WasteReduction
AI-powered FinOps — your kitchen's new sous chef 👨🍳
Let machine learning predict cost spikes before they burn your budget. Smart automation spots waste you'd miss manually.
🍲 Dive into the full recipe at cloudcostchefs.com
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #ChefTips
Let machine learning predict cost spikes before they burn your budget. Smart automation spots waste you'd miss manually.
🍲 Dive into the full recipe at cloudcostchefs.com
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #ChefTips
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
AI-powered FinOps — your kitchen's new sous chef 👨🍳
Let machine learning predict cost spikes before they burn your budget. Smart automation spots waste you'd miss manually.
🍲 Dive into the full recipe at cloudcostchefs.com
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #ChefTips
Let machine learning predict cost spikes before they burn your budget. Smart automation spots waste you'd miss manually.
🍲 Dive into the full recipe at cloudcostchefs.com
#FinOps #CloudCostChefs #ChefTips
Sunday Prep: Declare One Cloud Clean-Up Target for the Week 🛠️
Pick one target:
• Run the Shadow Waste Assessment tool and act on it.
• Evaluate or pilot a new FinOps tool.
• Clean up multi-cloud cost visibility or data transfer structure.
• Map cloud resource-carbon links and track them.
Pick one target:
• Run the Shadow Waste Assessment tool and act on it.
• Evaluate or pilot a new FinOps tool.
• Clean up multi-cloud cost visibility or data transfer structure.
• Map cloud resource-carbon links and track them.
October 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sunday Prep: Declare One Cloud Clean-Up Target for the Week 🛠️
Pick one target:
• Run the Shadow Waste Assessment tool and act on it.
• Evaluate or pilot a new FinOps tool.
• Clean up multi-cloud cost visibility or data transfer structure.
• Map cloud resource-carbon links and track them.
Pick one target:
• Run the Shadow Waste Assessment tool and act on it.
• Evaluate or pilot a new FinOps tool.
• Clean up multi-cloud cost visibility or data transfer structure.
• Map cloud resource-carbon links and track them.
Reflection Saturday: What Insight Changed How You See Your Cloud Bill This Week? 🪞🔄
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste stat, a new tool discovery, or that multi-cloud leak you spotted. Whatever it was — share it and let’s reflect together.
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste stat, a new tool discovery, or that multi-cloud leak you spotted. Whatever it was — share it and let’s reflect together.
October 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Reflection Saturday: What Insight Changed How You See Your Cloud Bill This Week? 🪞🔄
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste stat, a new tool discovery, or that multi-cloud leak you spotted. Whatever it was — share it and let’s reflect together.
Maybe it was the $44.5B waste stat, a new tool discovery, or that multi-cloud leak you spotted. Whatever it was — share it and let’s reflect together.
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #16: Don’t Overcrowd the Pan 🍳👥
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoil the dish — too many workloads on one cluster drive up cost, contention and noise."
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoil the dish — too many workloads on one cluster drive up cost, contention and noise."
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Chef’s Kitchen Rule #16: Don’t Overcrowd the Pan 🍳👥
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoil the dish — too many workloads on one cluster drive up cost, contention and noise."
“Too many ingredients in one pan spoil the dish — too many workloads on one cluster drive up cost, contention and noise."
Sustainable Clouds: Why “Waste = Carbon” Matters in 2025 🌱🔥
Cloud waste isn’t just dollar waste — it’s energy waste and carbon waste. As cloud usage and AI workloads surge, tracking both cost and carbon is becoming more important.
Cloud waste isn’t just dollar waste — it’s energy waste and carbon waste. As cloud usage and AI workloads surge, tracking both cost and carbon is becoming more important.
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Sustainable Clouds: Why “Waste = Carbon” Matters in 2025 🌱🔥
Cloud waste isn’t just dollar waste — it’s energy waste and carbon waste. As cloud usage and AI workloads surge, tracking both cost and carbon is becoming more important.
Cloud waste isn’t just dollar waste — it’s energy waste and carbon waste. As cloud usage and AI workloads surge, tracking both cost and carbon is becoming more important.
Multi-Cloud Isn’t a Trend — It’s the New Norm ☁️🧭
In 2025 more organizations are treating their cloud environment as multi-cloud by default not just single-provider. With that comes opportunity and complexity: cost visibility gets harder, egress and data transfer rules become major leaks.
In 2025 more organizations are treating their cloud environment as multi-cloud by default not just single-provider. With that comes opportunity and complexity: cost visibility gets harder, egress and data transfer rules become major leaks.
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Multi-Cloud Isn’t a Trend — It’s the New Norm ☁️🧭
In 2025 more organizations are treating their cloud environment as multi-cloud by default not just single-provider. With that comes opportunity and complexity: cost visibility gets harder, egress and data transfer rules become major leaks.
In 2025 more organizations are treating their cloud environment as multi-cloud by default not just single-provider. With that comes opportunity and complexity: cost visibility gets harder, egress and data transfer rules become major leaks.
Shadow Waste Assessment — Your Cleanup Sidekick 🧹✨
One of our top picks in the CloudCostChefs kitchen: the Shadow Waste Assessment tool. It digs into “hidden” cost leaks: forgotten test/dev environments, orphaned volumes, under-used snapshots, idle compute.
One of our top picks in the CloudCostChefs kitchen: the Shadow Waste Assessment tool. It digs into “hidden” cost leaks: forgotten test/dev environments, orphaned volumes, under-used snapshots, idle compute.
October 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Shadow Waste Assessment — Your Cleanup Sidekick 🧹✨
One of our top picks in the CloudCostChefs kitchen: the Shadow Waste Assessment tool. It digs into “hidden” cost leaks: forgotten test/dev environments, orphaned volumes, under-used snapshots, idle compute.
One of our top picks in the CloudCostChefs kitchen: the Shadow Waste Assessment tool. It digs into “hidden” cost leaks: forgotten test/dev environments, orphaned volumes, under-used snapshots, idle compute.
How to Pick the Right FinOps Tool (and Avoid Tool Fatigue) 🧰⚖️
The FinOps tooling market is booming — but many teams struggle to choose wisely. A recent guide highlights that most tools fall short because they don’t fit the team’s workflow or they focus on features over usage.
The FinOps tooling market is booming — but many teams struggle to choose wisely. A recent guide highlights that most tools fall short because they don’t fit the team’s workflow or they focus on features over usage.
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
How to Pick the Right FinOps Tool (and Avoid Tool Fatigue) 🧰⚖️
The FinOps tooling market is booming — but many teams struggle to choose wisely. A recent guide highlights that most tools fall short because they don’t fit the team’s workflow or they focus on features over usage.
The FinOps tooling market is booming — but many teams struggle to choose wisely. A recent guide highlights that most tools fall short because they don’t fit the team’s workflow or they focus on features over usage.
$44.5B of Cloud Spend May Be Going to Waste in 2025 — Are You in the Leak? 💸🔍
New data suggests that enterprises could be wasting approx 21% of their cloud infrastructure spend this year, due to under-utilized resources, orphaned assets and misaligned cost practices.
New data suggests that enterprises could be wasting approx 21% of their cloud infrastructure spend this year, due to under-utilized resources, orphaned assets and misaligned cost practices.
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
$44.5B of Cloud Spend May Be Going to Waste in 2025 — Are You in the Leak? 💸🔍
New data suggests that enterprises could be wasting approx 21% of their cloud infrastructure spend this year, due to under-utilized resources, orphaned assets and misaligned cost practices.
New data suggests that enterprises could be wasting approx 21% of their cloud infrastructure spend this year, due to under-utilized resources, orphaned assets and misaligned cost practices.
I spent 100+ hours learning prompt engineering.
Here's what nobody tells you:
You don't need complex frameworks or expensive courses.
You need 6 simple techniques. (Free course inside) 🧵
Here's what nobody tells you:
You don't need complex frameworks or expensive courses.
You need 6 simple techniques. (Free course inside) 🧵
October 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I spent 100+ hours learning prompt engineering.
Here's what nobody tells you:
You don't need complex frameworks or expensive courses.
You need 6 simple techniques. (Free course inside) 🧵
Here's what nobody tells you:
You don't need complex frameworks or expensive courses.
You need 6 simple techniques. (Free course inside) 🧵
Stop getting generic AI responses. 🛑
I built a library of 534 role-specific prompts that actually work.
Free. No signup. Just copy, paste, and get better results.
Here's what makes them different: 🧵
I built a library of 534 role-specific prompts that actually work.
Free. No signup. Just copy, paste, and get better results.
Here's what makes them different: 🧵
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Stop getting generic AI responses. 🛑
I built a library of 534 role-specific prompts that actually work.
Free. No signup. Just copy, paste, and get better results.
Here's what makes them different: 🧵
I built a library of 534 role-specific prompts that actually work.
Free. No signup. Just copy, paste, and get better results.
Here's what makes them different: 🧵
🚨 Prompty McCloudface is waving his magic wand: 'Unlock AI magic or feel the spatula!'
😤 Unlock pro-level outputs with our NEW AI Prompt Pack—100+ copy-paste gems for ChatGPT, Claude, & more! Creators, marketers, noobs: Level up NOW at aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com
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😤 Unlock pro-level outputs with our NEW AI Prompt Pack—100+ copy-paste gems for ChatGPT, Claude, & more! Creators, marketers, noobs: Level up NOW at aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com
#GenAIHacks #AIPrompts
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨 Prompty McCloudface is waving his magic wand: 'Unlock AI magic or feel the spatula!'
😤 Unlock pro-level outputs with our NEW AI Prompt Pack—100+ copy-paste gems for ChatGPT, Claude, & more! Creators, marketers, noobs: Level up NOW at aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com
#GenAIHacks #AIPrompts
😤 Unlock pro-level outputs with our NEW AI Prompt Pack—100+ copy-paste gems for ChatGPT, Claude, & more! Creators, marketers, noobs: Level up NOW at aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com
#GenAIHacks #AIPrompts
Post-MBA vibes: Global strategies gone wild! 🌍 Launching Prompty McCloudface's Wild Adventures Weekly! Episode 1: Wild Cloud Safari—cook up savings against cost beasts in the jungle! 🍲💻 Hits Sunday in the Nerdletter. Who's in? #PromptySafari #CloudCostChefs
October 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Post-MBA vibes: Global strategies gone wild! 🌍 Launching Prompty McCloudface's Wild Adventures Weekly! Episode 1: Wild Cloud Safari—cook up savings against cost beasts in the jungle! 🍲💻 Hits Sunday in the Nerdletter. Who's in? #PromptySafari #CloudCostChefs
📈 CASE STUDY: How cultural awareness saved a $2M FinOps initiative
The problem: Global tech company's FinOps rollout was failing spectacularly
- 90% adoption in US offices ✅
- 15% adoption in German offices ❌
- 5% adoption in UAE offices ❌
The problem: Global tech company's FinOps rollout was failing spectacularly
- 90% adoption in US offices ✅
- 15% adoption in German offices ❌
- 5% adoption in UAE offices ❌
October 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
📈 CASE STUDY: How cultural awareness saved a $2M FinOps initiative
The problem: Global tech company's FinOps rollout was failing spectacularly
- 90% adoption in US offices ✅
- 15% adoption in German offices ❌
- 5% adoption in UAE offices ❌
The problem: Global tech company's FinOps rollout was failing spectacularly
- 90% adoption in US offices ✅
- 15% adoption in German offices ❌
- 5% adoption in UAE offices ❌
💡 New from CloudCostChefs: AI for All
✅ Free AI prompt packs (no signup required)
✅ Real templates that actually work
✅ No enterprise complexity
✅ Built for small businesses & solopreneurs
Because AI should work for everyone, not just big budgets.
Get your prompts → aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com 🚀
✅ Free AI prompt packs (no signup required)
✅ Real templates that actually work
✅ No enterprise complexity
✅ Built for small businesses & solopreneurs
Because AI should work for everyone, not just big budgets.
Get your prompts → aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com 🚀
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
💡 New from CloudCostChefs: AI for All
✅ Free AI prompt packs (no signup required)
✅ Real templates that actually work
✅ No enterprise complexity
✅ Built for small businesses & solopreneurs
Because AI should work for everyone, not just big budgets.
Get your prompts → aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com 🚀
✅ Free AI prompt packs (no signup required)
✅ Real templates that actually work
✅ No enterprise complexity
✅ Built for small businesses & solopreneurs
Because AI should work for everyone, not just big budgets.
Get your prompts → aiforall.cloudcostchefs.com 🚀