Can you use the data from your cloud service provider’s dashboard to reduce costs and enhance the utilization of your infrastructure resources? Sure, but it often demands substantial effort and doesn’t always deliver optimal results. There’s a huge difference between cloud data transparency – simply seeing your services and costs – and true data observability that enables you to pinpoint the reasons for cost overruns and additional charge fees. Without a strategic cloud cost optimization framework like FinOps, the heavy lifting of analysis, insight, and the necessary follow-up actions fall on …