FinOps 2025: Why Cloud Costs Explode and How to Counteract
Dr. Matthias Schuchardt
Head of Business Development
"Companies waste an average of 30% of their cloud budget in 2025. FinOps is not a tool, but a culture change that connects engineering and finance."
Migration to the cloud is complete in most companies. Now comes the rude awakening: Monthly bills from AWS and Azure are rising exponentially. This phenomenon is so widespread that it has spawned its own discipline with "FinOps" (Financial Operations).
The Problem: "Infinite Scale" Meets Limited Budget
In traditional data centers, hardware was the limiting factor. In the cloud, developers can incur thousands of Euros in costs with the push of a button. Without governance processes, this leads to "Cloud Sprawl".
3 Immediate Measures for Cost Reduction
- Delete Zombie Resources: Identify volumes and load balancers that are not bound to any running instance.
- Rightsizing: Most VMs are 50% oversized. Use metrics to adjust instance sizes.
- Spot Instances & Reserved Instances: Committing saves up to 70%. Use this for stable workloads.
At Novartum, we integrate FinOps directly into the software architecture. Cost efficiency is a non-functional requirement of every application we build.
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