Kubernetes
Kubernetes Requests vs Usage: What Unused Requests Cost per Workload
Why requests, not usage, decide how many nodes you run, how to price the gap per workload, and how to choose a lower request without throttling.
Xplorr team
7 min read
Featured
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Requests vs Usage: What Unused Requests Cost per Workload
Why requests, not usage, decide how many nodes you run, how to price the gap per workload, and how to choose a lower request without throttling.
Xplorr team
7 min read
AI spend
AI Bills Are Cloud Bills Now: A Practical Guide to LLM Cost Allocation
Split OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock and Azure OpenAI spend by feature and model, turn it into a unit cost, and read it next to the cloud bill.
Xplorr team
7 min read
AWS
How to Read Your AWS Bill: Five Places Spend Hides Outside EC2
Group by usage type and NAT Gateway, cross AZ traffic, orphaned EBS, CloudWatch Logs and idle load balancers stop hiding in "EC2 - Other".
Xplorr team
7 min read
AWS
How to Track AWS Credits Before They Run Out
Expiry per grant, burn rate, the run out date formula and what credits do not cover, with notes for Azure and Google Cloud.
Xplorr team
7 min read
AWS
Why Did My AWS Bill Go Up? Five Questions That Find the Cause
What rose, when it started, what changed, who changed it, and what it costs per day: a short investigation for any cost spike.
Xplorr team
7 min read
Product
Inside the Xplorr Console: A Walkthrough of the Demo Workspace
Eight screens, from connecting an account to reading a Kubernetes namespace bill, illustrated with our seeded demo workspace. Every figure shown is synthetic sample data for a fictional company, not a customer result.
Xplorr team
9 min read
Engineering
What Building Cloud Cost Integrations Actually Teaches You
Five findings from the AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenCost collectors: a placeholder that hides unused storage, an API with no step parameter, and cost data that is absent unless you opt in.
Xplorr team
10 min read
Engineering
What It Costs to Run a Multi-Cloud FinOps Platform: Our Own Stack, Itemised
Xplorr's own infrastructure read out of our Helm chart: eight workloads, six CronJobs, the retention policy, and vendor list prices where we know them.
Xplorr team
9 min read
Product
How AI is Changing Cloud Cost Management: MCP, Slack Bots, and Natural Language FinOps
AI-powered cloud cost management through MCP servers, Slack bots and natural language queries is replacing dashboard-first FinOps. Here is how it works.
Xplorr team
14 min read
AWS
AWS Cost Optimization Strategies That Actually Work
A step-by-step AWS cost audit: the CLI commands to find idle EC2, orphaned EBS and NAT Gateway charges, and the list prices to cost each finding.
Xplorr team
11 min read
AWS
AWS Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans: A Decision Guide for Engineers
List-price comparison, break-even calculations, and why a 3-year Standard RI is hard to unwind once a better instance family ships.
Xplorr team
12 min read
Azure
Azure Cost Optimization Best Practices: A Hands-On Guide for Engineering Teams
VM right-sizing, storage tier migration, Hybrid Benefit and reservations, in the order that gives you the most saving for the least effort.
Xplorr team
10 min read
Multi-cloud
Why Multi-Cloud Cost Visibility Is Broken (And How to Fix It)
Three separate billing consoles, manual spreadsheets, and no single source of truth. Here's why multi-cloud cost visibility is broken.
Xplorr team
6 min read
GCP
GCP Cost Optimization Guide: Practical Strategies That Actually Reduce Your Bill
Sustained and Committed Use Discounts, Spot VMs, and why fixing BigQuery partition pruning beats buying slot capacity.
Xplorr team
11 min read
FinOps practice
FinOps Best Practices for Engineering Teams
Cost ownership, tagging that survives contact with engineers, dashboards people open, and monthly reviews that produce action items.
Xplorr team
9 min read
AWS
How to Cut Your AWS Bill in One Week: A Practical Checklist
Right-sizing EC2, eliminating idle resources, reserved instances, and turning off dev environments at night.
Xplorr team
7 min read
FinOps practice
Hidden Cloud Costs You're Probably Missing Right Now
NAT Gateway processing at $0.045/GB, cross-AZ transfer adding up silently, CloudWatch logs at $0.50/GB. The costs hiding in plain sight.
Xplorr team
10 min read
Multi-cloud
AWS vs Azure vs GCP Pricing in 2026: Which Cloud Is Cheapest?
Compute, storage, and egress prices across all three clouds. Which is cheapest for which workload?
Xplorr team
8 min read
FinOps practice
Cloud Cost Optimization for Startups: A Practical Guide by Stage
A stage-by-stage guide for startup teams, from pre-seed to Series B. When to optimize, when to move fast, and what to ignore at each stage.
Xplorr team
10 min read
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Cost Optimization: Cutting Pod and Node Spend
Resource right-sizing, HPA/VPA configs, Spot node pools, and why requests rather than usage decide what your cluster costs.
Xplorr team
10 min read
FinOps practice
5 Signs Your Cloud Bill Is About to Spike
Forgotten dev environments, autoscaling without limits, surprise data transfer fees, abandoned snapshots.
Xplorr team
5 min read
FinOps practice
Cloud Cost Monitoring and Alerting: A Practical Setup Guide for AWS, Azure, and GCP
How to set up cost alerts in AWS, Azure and GCP, plus a tiered routing strategy that stays actionable instead of becoming noise.
Xplorr team
11 min read
Multi-cloud
Multi-Cloud Cost: When a Second Cloud Helps and When It Hurts
What a second cloud adds in split commitments, egress and duplicate tooling, plus why most teams end up multi-cloud by accident.
Xplorr team
12 min read
FinOps practice
What Is a Cloud Cost Anomaly (And Why You Should Care)
What counts as a cost anomaly, how detection works, and what a runaway Lambda costs per hour at AWS list prices.
Xplorr team
5 min read
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