Cloud & AI Cost Management
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You're not overspending, you're under-saving | Harness Resource | Harness

Cloud cost reduction isn’t the endgame, it’s the starting point. As organizations scale in the cloud, the conversation must evolve from “How much are we spending?” to “What value are we generating?” This session will help you reframe the FinOps journey from tactical savings to strategic impact.

Join Harness as we explore the most common challenges holding teams back (unallocated spend, idle resources, and wasted commitments) and how they’re being addressed with data-driven automation and intelligent orchestration. You’ll learn how to align finance, engineering, and business stakeholders around shared accountability for cloud value, not just cloud bills.

We’ll also share a glimpse into what’s next for FinOps maturity: autonomous optimization and “Zero Drift” operations, where environments continuously align with policy, budget, and performance expectations.

Key Takeaways:

FinOps isn’t about cutting spend, it’s about creating value. Learn how to connect engineering decisions to business outcomes and move beyond cost-cutting cycles.

Automation unlocks efficiency at scale. Explore how AutoStopping and orchestration eliminate idle resources and optimize cloud usage.

Leadership alignment is the ultimate FinOps multiplier. Discover how to foster shared accountability across finance, engineering, and product teams.

Published
November 19, 2025

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What you'll learn

Key Takeaways

Tagging is the Foundation of Cloud Optimization

Only 37 percent of enterprise companies achieve greater than 80 percent showback due to untagged assets. Implementing rule-based retro tagging is essential because organizations cannot optimize what they cannot attribute.

Cloud Savings Require Continuous Automated Systems

Real cost reductions come from automated systems that continuously review assets rather than manual spreadsheet analysis. Utilizing commitment orchestrators and AI rightsizing prevents overwhelming manual workloads and captures significant cloud waste.

Highlight Compounded Waste to Drive Leadership Action

Demonstrating how unaddressed cloud waste multiplies over time is a highly effective way to gain leadership support. Presenting this growing financial impact encourages decision-makers to prioritize necessary efficiency changes.

Gamification Drives Engineering Accountability

Displaying efficiency metrics across different teams creates a gamified environment that encourages better resource management. When engineers see peer teams operating at higher efficiency rates, it motivates them to improve their own cloud usage.

Automate Daily Cloud Commitment Actions

Manual management of cloud savings vehicles often results in low coverage and missed financial opportunities. Automated commitment orchestration can perform dozens of daily transitions to ensure coverage goals are consistently met without human intervention.