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Cut your cloud bill in half. A practicing SRE teaches you the exact strategies used at scale to optimize AWS, GCP, and Azure costs — from...
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Welcome — Start Here

Welcome to Cloud Cost Optimization Mastery. Here's what you're getting and how to get the most out of it.


What's Inside


15 lessons across 5 chapters, built by a practicing SRE:


  1. Foundations — Cloud billing models, FinOps framework, cost visibility dashboards

  2. Compute Optimization — Rightsizing, reserved instances vs. savings plans, spot/preemptible strategies

  3. Storage & Network — Tiering, lifecycle policies, data transfer optimization, CDN strategies

  4. Automation & Governance — Tagging, automated scaling/scheduling, cost anomaly alerts

  5. Advanced Strategies — Multi-cloud arbitrage, Kubernetes optimization, and a capstone project


Every lesson ends with concrete action items for your real infrastructure.


How to Get the Most Out of This


  1. Go in order. Lessons unlock sequentially — each one builds on the last.

  2. Do the action items. The course only works if you apply it to your actual cloud environment.

  3. Complete the capstone. The final lesson has you build a cost optimization playbook for your organization. This is what separates learning from saving money.

  4. Use the community chat. Ask questions, share wins, post your cost reduction screenshots.


Expected Results


If your organization has never done systematic cost optimization, expect to find 20-40% waste in your cloud bill. The techniques here have collectively saved organizations millions in cloud spend. Your results depend on scale, but the frameworks work at any size.


Head to the Course tab and start Lesson 1.

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The Cloud Cost Optimization Playbook — What Every SRE Should Know

Your company is almost certainly wasting 30-35% of its cloud spend. That's not speculation — it's the industry average across AWS, GCP, and Azure.


I'm a practicing SRE who's spent years cutting cloud bills at scale. I built this course to teach the exact strategies that work.


The Problem


Most engineering teams treat cloud costs as someone else's problem. The result:

  • Instances running at 15% utilization because nobody rightsized after the initial deploy

  • Dev/staging environments running 24/7 when they're only used 8 hours a day

  • No reserved instance coverage on workloads that have been steady-state for 2 years

  • Storage accumulating with no lifecycle policies — paying hot-tier prices for data nobody's accessed in 18 months

  • Kubernetes clusters at 35% utilization because resource requests are set-and-forget


What I Cover


15 lessons across 5 chapters:


  1. Foundations — How cloud billing actually works, the FinOps framework, setting up cost visibility

  2. Compute Optimization — Rightsizing, reserved instances vs. savings plans, spot instance strategies

  3. Storage & Network — Tiering, lifecycle policies, data transfer costs, CDN strategies

  4. Automation & Governance — Tagging best practices, automated scaling, cost anomaly detection

  5. Advanced Strategies — Multi-cloud cost arbitrage, Kubernetes optimization, and building your own cost optimization playbook


Every lesson includes concrete action items you can apply to your infrastructure immediately.


Who This Is For


  • DevOps engineers and SREs managing cloud infrastructure

  • Cloud architects designing cost-efficient systems

  • Engineering managers who need to justify cloud spend to leadership

  • Anyone whose AWS/GCP/Azure bill makes them uncomfortable


If you're responsible for cloud infrastructure and you haven't done systematic cost optimization, this course will pay for itself in the first week.