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DoiT launches its local MCP server for DoiT Cloud Intelligence™: Explore your cloud costs & usage wherever you use AI
By Tal CohenMay 22, 20256 min read

DoiT launches its local MCP server for DoiT Cloud Intelligence™: Explore your cloud costs & usage wherever you use AI

DoiT's MCP server transforms how you analyze cloud costs through AI assistants. Ask about spending spikes, service outages, or billing anomalies in plain language and get instant, data-driven insights from your actual cloud environment.

Identifying Hidden Cloud Waste in Your Code
By Joshua FoxMay 19, 20256 min read

Identifying Hidden Cloud Waste in Your Code

A Practical Guide to finding and eliminating it

Hidden Cloud Waste in Your Code
By Joshua FoxMay 19, 20256 min read

Hidden Cloud Waste in Your Code

In his article “Stop Chasing Idle Servers: Intent-Aware FinOps for the Real World,” DoiT CEO Vadim Solovey highlighted an important reality of cloud computing: An “illusion of efficiency” can mask significant waste. While idle resources are easy to spot, some of the most costly inefficiencies hide within your engineering organization or code — places where […]

The risks of S3 Object Lock — why you should block it if you don’t need it
By Avi KeinanMay 19, 20254 min read

The risks of S3 Object Lock — why you should block it if you don’t need it

In Amazon S3, you can upload objects (files), choose a storage class, define who can access the file, configure automatic deletion, and…

How to Optimize Kubernetes Costs
By DoiTMay 16, 20259 min read

How to Optimize Kubernetes Costs

Learn proven Kubernetes cost optimization strategies and tools that finance leaders can use to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and control cloud spending.

The FinOps AWS Playbook for Cloud Cost Management
By DoiTMay 13, 202510 min read

The FinOps AWS Playbook for Cloud Cost Management

Implement FinOps AWS strategies to improve cloud cost visibility, optimize spending, and align your cloud investments with business objectives and outcomes.

Transform Your Cloud Strategy:
By Greg WiedemanMay 12, 20256 min read

Transform Your Cloud Strategy:

Unlocking Financial Efficiency with FinOps and Well-Architected Frameworks.

Inside the Query Planner: Analyzing EXPLAIN Plans in Amazon Neptune
By Kate GawronMay 9, 202511 min read

Inside the Query Planner: Analyzing EXPLAIN Plans in Amazon Neptune

When working with Amazon Neptune, performance tuning can often feel like navigating a dark cave without a flashlight. Queries might slow…

5 Best AWS FinOps Tools for 2026: Compared
By DoiTMay 2, 202516 min read

5 Best AWS FinOps Tools for 2026: Compared

Compare the 5 best AWS FinOps tools for 2026 — DoiT Cloud Intelligence, AWS Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, Cloudability, and Spot by NetApp — with pros, cons, and key features.

The importance of real-time anomaly detection in preventing cloud budget overruns
By Craig LowellMay 1, 20255 min read

The importance of real-time anomaly detection in preventing cloud budget overruns

In today’s modern enterprises, the rate of innovation often outpaces the speed of oversight. As organizations adopt increasingly complex multicloud and hybrid environments, the challenge of managing cloud costs in real time has become a strategic imperative. Dynamic scaling, ephemeral workloads, and decentralized ownership across engineering teams make it difficult to maintain visibility into where […]

12 Essential FinOps KPIs to Optimize Cloud Costs and Maximize ROI
By DoiTApr 25, 20255 min read

12 Essential FinOps KPIs to Optimize Cloud Costs and Maximize ROI

Discover the 12 critical FinOps KPIs finance leaders need to track for effective cloud cost management, improved forecasting, and strategic resource allocation.

Unlocking Savings: A look at Google’s new BigQuery & Composer CUDs
By Philipp HeinrichApr 23, 20254 min read

Unlocking Savings: A look at Google’s new BigQuery & Composer CUDs

CUDs for BigQuery and Composer finally arrived — Am I going to save money?