Hannah Cole

FinOps & Leadership

Hannah covers cloud economics and engineering leadership, translating infrastructure spend into decisions leaders can act on.

5 stories

From Savings Plans to Graviton to the storage classes nobody reads about — a field guide to cutting AWS spend without cutting reliability.

Hannah ColeSep 13, 202611 min read

FinOps is not a cost-cutting team — it is a practice for making spend a shared, engineering-owned decision. Here is how it works.

Hannah ColeSep 9, 20269 min read

CloudCase Study

What moving a production fleet to ARM actually returned — the wins, the recompiles, and the workloads that stayed on x86.

Hannah ColeSep 3, 20269 min read

Deployment frequency looks great on a dashboard and can hide a fragile system. How to read the four keys without gaming them.

Hannah ColeAug 29, 20268 min read

Most postmortems produce a document and no change. The practices that turn incidents into durable reliability improvements.

Hannah ColeAug 27, 20269 min read

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