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Azure's extended support "penalty" is quieter than AWS — and that's what makes it dangerous

AWS charges you the moment your RDS instance or EKS cluster slips into extended support. It shows up on your bill. You see it. You react.

#Azure#Extended Support#FinOps
Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
8 min read
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SQL Server licensing cost hidden inside an EC2 server rack bill

SQL Server on AWS: A Practical BYOL Decision Guide

BYOL vs License Included for SQL Server on AWS — a decision tree, real cost math, and the caveats that change everything.

#AWS#SQL Server#BYOL
Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
12 min read
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Six alternatives to AWS Backup cold tier for EBS

Six ways to cut EBS backup costs without touching cold tier

Here is a scenario that plays out more often than AWS would like to admit. An engineer notices the per-GB price on AWS Backup cold storage. $0.0125/GB-month versus $0.05/GB-month for warm. A 75% di...

#AWS#AWS Backup#FinOps
Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
16 min read
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AWS Backup cold tier vs warm tier cost comparison

AWS Backup cold tier: when "cheaper" storage costs you more

Cold storage. The word itself sounds like a bargain. You hear "cold tier" and your brain immediately goes: less accessible, therefore cheaper. That's how it works with S3 Glacier. That's how it wor...

#AWS#AWS Backup#FinOps
Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
13 min read
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FinOps X Day Bengaluru 2026

What I Learned at FinOps X Day Bengaluru 2026

I landed in Bengaluru on a red-eye, straight from exhibiting at the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi. Five days surrounded by AI conversations — $200 billion in AI investment commitments, 89 countri...

#FinOps#FOCUS#Databricks
Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
15 min read
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AI Inference Cost Attribution: What AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenAI, and Anthropic Actually Give You

Every major cloud provider offers AI cost attribution — AWS Inference Profiles, Azure deployments, GCP labels — but each is incomplete in a different place. Here is what actually works.

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
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What is FinOps? A Beginner's Guide to Cloud Financial Management

Cloud costs feeling out of control? FinOps brings finance, engineering, and business teams together to take charge of cloud spending—without slowing down innovation.

#FinOps#cloud costs#cost optimization
Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
10 min read
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The Engineer's Guide to AWS Cost Optimization: 30+ Strategies to Cut Your Cloud Bill by 15-60%

You know that feeling when you open the AWS billing console and think, "Wait, we're spending how much?" You're not alone. I've seen it countless times—teams building incredible products while their...

Nishant Thorat
Nishant Thorat
11 min read
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