<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Cloud on I am Lino</title><link>https://iamlino.net/en/categories/cloud/</link><description>Recent content in Cloud on I am Lino</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://iamlino.net/en/categories/cloud/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The cloud isn't cheap anymore: welcome to the FinOps era</title><link>https://iamlino.net/en/blog/the-cloud-isnt-cheap-anymore-welcome-to-the-finops-era/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://iamlino.net/en/blog/the-cloud-isnt-cheap-anymore-welcome-to-the-finops-era/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Move to the cloud.
You&amp;rsquo;ll save money.
We&amp;rsquo;ll figure out the details later.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;After hearing it enough times, you stopped reading the fine print.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And honestly, not having to buy new hardware every three years is genuinely great. Being able to shut down test environments when nobody&amp;rsquo;s using them - also great.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Later&amp;rdquo; has arrived in the form of monthly invoices with more digits than expected and politely-worded emails from Finance asking - smiling to your face and sharpening a knife behind your back - what exactly &lt;em&gt;kinesis-analytics-something-us-east-1-prod&lt;/em&gt; is and why it &lt;a href="https://castillo-ti.com/finops-estrategia-optimizacion-nube/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;costs that much&lt;/a&gt;
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