Finance & Engineering

Joint Finance-Engineering Ownership Delivers Best-in-Class Cloud Cost Control

Who owns cloud costs matters more than tools, team size, or spend level. Our research on 100 CFOs found that joint Finance-Engineering ownership delivers best-in-class forecast precision and margin outcomes. This article shows how to structure the shift.

How AWS Database Savings Plans Change the Economics of Your Data Layer

More of your database and data services spend is now eligible for AWS Savings Plan discounts.

AWS Billing Transfer: The Easy Button for Cloud Finance

Billing Transfer turns a risky, engineering-heavy project into a reversible, AWS-native configuration change that lets finance finally lead on cloud economics.

What 100 CFOs Told Us About Cloud Infrastructure’s Impact on the P&L

At 10–20% of revenue, cloud now represents the second-largest expense for many growth-stage SaaS companies. We interviewed 100 CFOs and here are the results.

Mapping Cloud Spend to COGS and OpEx: The Missing Layer of Cloud Finance

Most finance teams can’t cleanly answer the question: which dollars belong in COGS and which in OpEx?