Who You Gonna Call? WasteBusters – Closing the FinOps Loop Across Azure and AWS

When we needed one solution for our FinOps needs across Azure and AWS, we looked at every option in the market. We were surprised to find a vendor providing better Azure optimization opportunities than natively available. Beyond just finding waste, we needed to drive action—after all, waste found but not fixed is still waste. The solution came by integrating FinOps data from PointFive directly into the dashboards our engineers already use daily.

In this session, we’ll share how our organization partnered with PointFive to identify Azure optimization opportunities that Microsoft’s native tools missed, while maintaining visibility and reducing waste across our multi-cloud environment. We’ll explore how we closed the loop by integrating FinOps data directly into our engineering workflows. We’ll demonstrate how:

• Our teams found Azure-specific cost reduction opportunities that surpassed what Microsoft’s own tools identified
• We successfully bridged the gap between FinOps insights and engineering action
• Custom thresholds and intelligent automations helped eliminate alert fatigue and ensured alerts were relevant and timely
• Exposing optimization opportunities through familiar engineering tools while providing context dramatically improved remediation rates
• Whether you’re managing multi-cloud environments or focused on Azure, this session offers practical strategies for moving beyond dashboards to create a workflow – detect, review, fix, report – that not only helps us save but also prove it.

Speaker

Taylor Houck

FinOps Specialist at PointFive