{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"FinOps in Action","title":"The Cloud Bill Nobody Was Watching ft. Michael Graff | Ep #80","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2519,"description":"This week's episode of FinOps in Action takes a different shape, with PointFive Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer Gal Ben-David stepping in to host a conversation with Mike Graff, Infrastructure Architecture Director at Dolby Laboratories and a FinOps Ambassador. Mike shares a couple of real cost inefficiencies he's tracked down in the wild, then the conversation opens up into bigger questions about where FinOps is headed from new roles emerging on the engineering side to how AI might change the way teams find and fix waste. It's a grounded, practitioner led episode for anyone trying to close the gap between what engineering builds and what finance sees on the bill.\n \nHere’s what we talked about:\nSmall misconfigurations can hide big costs. A couple of the \"craziest\" inefficiencies Mike's found weren't exotic, they were simple settings almost anyone could miss, and easy to fix once spotted.\nPlatform tools don't always keep pace with the cloud. Vendors can lag behind what cloud providers already support, and Mike argues teams shouldn't just accept those gaps.\nCost optimization and security fight the same uphill battle. Both compete for engineering attention against feature deadlines and both benefit from getting into the conversation earlier.\nThe FinOps role may be split in two. Mike and Gal dig into whether cost efficiency is becoming its own engineering discipline, separate from the finance side of FinOps.\nYou don't need a title to start. Many practitioners begin as a side project, start small, find one win, and let momentum build.\nChapters:\n00:00 Vendor Security Rant\n00:15 Special Episode Setup\n01:25 Meet Mike Graff\n02:18 Databricks Egress Surprise\n05:14 Finding It in Dashboards\n06:06 NAT Gateway Routing Trap\n08:11 Tooling Gaps and Visibility\n10:21 PaaS Transparency and Governance\n13:56 Shifting Left With Engineers\n22:10 Performance vs Cost Wins\n23:30 Gamifying FinOps Scores\n24:23 Unit Economics Challenges\n25:21 AI for FinOps Tools\n26:50 FinOps Agent Vision...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/19z3-eWZl6c0TEQCJZvYXIgN4CxYIhl9_e56I_mkpWs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYTdj/YWRhNmM4YzM4NzQ0/NDVlNzFhYmE2NmVi/Y2ZiZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}