Why Your Cloud Bill Still Surprises You After Three Years

Lucas and Luna explore why cloud bills continue to surprise even experienced engineering teams three years after migration. They examine a real case: a mid-sized SaaS company that moved to AWS in 2023 and saw costs grow 40% year-over-year despite flat revenue. The hosts break down the three biggest culprits — unused reserved instances, data transfer between services, and developer-launched ephemeral environments — and explain why traditional cost management tools miss them. They also discuss a 2026 survey showing 68% of companies exceed their cloud budget every quarter. This episode gives listeners a concrete checklist for auditing their own bills and a new way to think about cloud cost as a product of team behavior, not just infrastructure. #CloudCost #AWS #Azure #GCP #FinOps #CloudBilling #ReservedInstances #DataTransfer #EphemeralEnvironments #CostOptimization #CloudMigration #TechBudget #SaaS #Infrastructure #Technology #CloudComputing #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo