From Cloud Waste to Cloud Discipline

Cloud Waste Doesn’t Happen Overnight How I stopped treating cloud governance as an audit and started treating it as an engineering workflow. During my early years working with AWS environments, I assumed cloud governance was something teams reviewed every few months. A security assessment, cost optimization exercise OR a compliance report before an audit. The process always looked similar. Run a few scripts —> Export a spreadsheet —> Raise a list of findings —> Assign them to different teams —> Wait for them to be fixed. ...

August 4, 2026 · 3 min · 623 words