Enterprises set to waste billions due to lack of cloud cost awareness among developers

A disconnect between FinOps and development teams is leading to wasted spend on cloud infrastructure costs according to 52 percent of engineering leaders. Research from software delivery platform Harness finds developers have limited insight into cloud waste. Fewer than half of respondents say they have access to real time data on idle cloud resources (43 percent), unused or orphaned resources (39 percent), and over or under-provisioned workloads (33 percent). Without a clear picture of cloud resource requirements, 55 percent of developers say purchasing commitments are ultimately based on guesswork. As a result, enterprises estimate that 21 percent of their cloud… [Continue Reading]