How One Team Cut Their Cloud Bill By Changing Nothing

Episode 35 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a counterintuitive cost-saving strategy: instead of optimizing infrastructure, a mid-stage startup eliminated cloud waste by killing zombie workloads and enforcing tagging governance. They walk through how a $400,000 annual savings was found by simply turning off forgotten resources and tagging everything else. Along the way they discuss why most cost optimization efforts focus on the wrong layer and how engineering leaders can build a culture of cost awareness without a dedicated FinOps team. Practical, specific, and grounded in a real case from Q2 2026. #CloudCosts #FinOps #ZombieWorkloads #TaggingGovernance #EngineeringLeadership #CostOptimization #CloudInfrastructure #AWS #Azure #GCP #TechLeadership #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology #CTO #EngineeringManager #Podcast #CloudWaste Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo