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Fredrik Filipsson
MultiCloud Optimization · Independent, buyer-side cloud cost advisory
Connect on LinkedIn →Fredrik Filipsson is a co-founder of MultiCloud Optimization, the independent, buyer-side cloud cost advisory.
He advises enterprise buyers on the commercial side of cloud — commitment and discount negotiation, licensing, marketplace spend, and the contract clauses that quietly move the bill — alongside the engineering changes that make savings durable across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI. He answers only to the client and takes zero provider commissions, and he writes here to give buyers the same leverage in their own negotiations. Each article ties its claims back to real usage and billing data, never a vendor spec sheet.
Areas of focus
246 articles
Articles by Fredrik Filipsson.
AI Spend Governance for the CFOAlert Fatigue and How to Avoid ItAligning Procurement and EngineeringAmpere ARM Economics on OCI: The Buyer CaseAnomaly Detection That Catches Spend EarlyApproval Workflows for New Cloud SpendArchive Storage Economics on OCI: When It PaysAthena and Query Cost DisciplineAutomating Commitment Management SafelyAutomation Guardrails That Prevent OutagesAutonomous: ECPU Sizing and Auto ScalingAutoscaling Policies That Cut Cost on AWSAWS Budgets and Alerts That Actually WorkAWS Cost Allocation for Kubernetes WorkloadsAWS Cost Explorer: What It Shows and MissesAWS Organizations and Consolidated BillingAWS Savings Plans Explained for BuyersAWS vs Azure vs GCP vs OCI on PriceAzure Budgets and Alerts That Actually WorkAzure Cost Exports and FOCUS Data ExplainedAzure Dev Test Pricing and Who QualifiesAzure Files vs Blob on CostAzure Hybrid Benefit Explained ProperlyAzure Monitor Cost DisciplineAzure Pricing Models Explained for BuyersAzure Private Endpoints and Network CostAzure Savings Plan vs Reservations: How to ChooseAzure Storage Cost Optimization End to EndAzure VM Rightsizing Engineers AcceptB Series and Burstable VM EconomicsBandwidth and Egress on AzureBatch Inference EconomicsBenchmarking Cloud Discounts ProperlyBigQuery Editions and Autoscaling SlotsBin Packing and Scheduling for CostBudget Guardrails Versus Hard LimitsBuilding a Migration Business Case That HoldsBuilding Your First Cloud Cost BaselineCaching Strategies That Cut Inference SpendCloud Budgets Teams Actually RespectCloud Cost Optimization for AgricultureCloud Cost Optimization for BankingCloud Cost Optimization for EcommerceCloud Cost Optimization for Energy and UtilitiesCloud Cost Optimization for GamingCloud Cost Optimization for HealthcareCloud Cost Optimization for LogisticsCloud Cost Optimization for MediaCloud Cost Optimization for PharmaCloud Cost Optimization for Public SectorCloud Cost Optimization for RetailCloud Cost Optimization for TelecomCloud Functions Cost OptimizationCloud Logging: The Quiet Budget Eater on GCPCloud Negotiation Mistakes That Cost MillionsCloud Spend Governance After a MergerCloud Spend KPIs for Engineering LeadersCloud SQL Cost Control on GCPCloud Storage Classes and Lifecycle RulesCloudFront Economics for Heavy EgressCluster Autoscaler vs Karpenter: The EconomicsColocation versus Cloud in 2026Commitment Coverage Targets on GCPCommitment Shortfall: Your OptionsCommitted Use Discounts Explained for BuyersCommon Azure Billing Surprises and How to Stop ThemComparing Compute Pricing Across CloudsCompartments and Cost Structure on OCICompute Engine Rightsizing That SticksConsolidate or Diversify: The Cloud Spend QuestionContainer Image Hygiene and Storage CostControl Plane and Add On CostsCost Allocation Without the PoliticsCost Data in CI CD PipelinesCross Cloud Commitment StrategyCross Region Replication CostsData Gravity and Its Cost ConsequencesData Transfer Costs on AWS ExplainedData Transfer Costs on GCP ExplainedDatabricks on Azure Cost ControlDataflow Cost OptimizationDataset Ownership and Tagging on GCPDecoding AWS Credits and How to Use Them WellDecoding GCP Credits and How to Use Them WellDecommissioning AWS Data You No Longer NeedDecommissioning GCP Data You No Longer NeedDisaster Recovery on OCI Without OverspendE2 and Tau Machine Family Economics on GCPEBS Snapshots and the Cost of ForgettingEC2 Rightsizing Engineers AcceptEffective Savings Rate on OCIEFS vs EBS vs S3 on CostEgress Fees Across the Four CloudsEKS vs AKS vs GKE vs OKE on CostEngineering Accountability for Cloud CostEvent Hubs Cost Control on AzureExadata Cloud Service EconomicsFargate vs EC2 on Cost: When Each WinsFine Tuning Versus Prompting on CostFlexible CUDs and What Changed on GCP CommitmentsFOCUS Data Pipelines in PracticeForecasting AI Spend Under GrowthFrom Cloud Only to Multi Technology FinOpsGCP Billing Export and FOCUS DataGCP Cost Allocation for GKE Workloads, Done RightGCP Data Architecture Choices That Cut CostGCP Network Tiers: Premium vs StandardGCP Pricing Models Explained for BuyersGCP Projects, Folders, and Cost StructureGCP Support Plans and What They CostGlacier and Deep Archive EconomicsGoverning OCI Spend After an Oracle DealGoverning Shadow Projects on GCP to Recover SpendGPU Capacity and AI Workloads on OCIGPU Scheduling for AI WorkloadsHeatWave MySQL Economics: Sizing and the Real CostIdle Clusters and Weekend WasteIdle Resources and How to Find ThemInfrastructure as Code and Cost ReviewKinesis and Streaming Cost Control on AWSKubernetes Commitments: How They MapKubernetes Logging and Observability CostsLambda Cost Optimization in PracticeLicense Mobility and Hybrid Benefit StackingLocal SSD Economics on GCP: When It Pays OffMACC Shortfall: The Clause That BitesManaged Instance Groups and AutoscalingMarketplace Spend and Commitment DrawdownMeasuring Cost per AI OutcomeMeasuring Effective Savings Rate on AzureMemorystore Cost Discipline: Size Redis to NeedMigrating Between Clouds: The EconomicsMigration Funding From Cloud ProvidersModernization That Pays for ItselfMulti Account Strategy and Cost ControlMulti Project Cost Reporting on GCPMulti Tenant Cluster EconomicsMulticloud Cost KPIs for the BoardMulticloud Showback That Holds UpNamespace Cost Allocation That Actually WorksNative Tools Versus Third Party PlatformsNegotiating AI Capacity ReservationsNegotiating an AWS Enterprise Discount ProgramNegotiating GCP Enterprise Agreements: A Buyer GuideNegotiating the Azure MACC: A Buyer PlaybookNormalizing Costs Across Cloud ProvidersObservability for AI CostOCI Block Volume Performance Tiers and CostOCI Budgets and Alerts That Actually WorkOCI Cost Allocation for OKE WorkloadsOCI Cost Analysis Console: Strengths and GapsOCI Functions and Serverless CostOCI Support Rewards ExplainedOKE Cost Optimization in PracticeOn Demand vs Commitment on AWSOne Year vs Three Year AWS CommitmentsOne Year vs Three Year ReservationsOpen Weight Models on Your Own GPUsOverprovisioning: The Default Kubernetes TaxPartitioning and Clustering for Query Cost in BigQueryPersistent Volume Cost DisciplinePolicy as Code for Cost ControlPre Deployment Cost Estimation for CloudProvisioned Throughput for AI WorkloadsPub/Sub Cost Control on GCPQuotas and Limits as a Cost Safety NetRDS Reserved Instances Explained for BuyersReading Your AWS Bill Line by LineReading Your GCP Bill Line by LineRedshift Cost Optimization in PracticeRenewing Azure Commitments From StrengthRenewing GCP Commitments From StrengthReserved Capacity for SQL DatabaseReserved Instances vs Savings PlansRightsizing as a Continuous DisciplineS3 Intelligent Tiering: When It Pays OffS3 Request Costs People ForgetSageMaker Cost Control for ML TeamsScale Sets and Autoscaling for Cost on AzureScheduling Non Production Environments Off on GCPScheduling Non Production Off on AWSScoring Optimization RecommendationsServerless Migration EconomicsShadow AI Spend and How to Find ItShowback Versus Chargeback: Choosing the ModelSizing a Universal Credits CommitmentSizing Reservation Coverage on AzureSnapshot and Backup Cost Discipline on GCPSovereign and Regional Cloud EconomicsSpot Capacity in Kubernetes, Done SafelySpot VMs and Preemptible Economics on GCPSQL Database vs Managed Instance on CostStorage Tagging and Ownership on Azure for Cost ControlSubscriptions and Management Groups for CostSynapse Versus Fabric on CostTagging for Cost Allocation on AzureTagging Strategy That Survives Real TeamsThe AI Cloud Cost Guide for BuyersThe Anatomy of a Cloud BillThe AWS Cost and Usage Report ExplainedThe AWS Spend Review CadenceThe AWS Well Architected Cost PillarThe Azure Spend Review CadenceThe Biggest AWS Waste CategoriesThe Biggest GCP Waste CategoriesThe Business Case for a FinOps FunctionThe Cloud Cost Tooling Landscape in 2026The Cost of Poor Cost VisibilityThe Economics of AWS Data LakesThe Economics of Cloud Region ChoiceThe FinOps Maturity Model in PracticeThe FOCUS Billing Standard ExplainedThe GCP Commitment Renewal Checklist for BuyersThe GCP Spend Review CadenceThe Growth Trap in Cloud CommitmentsThe Hybrid Estate Cost ModelThe MACC: Sizing It Without OvercommittingThe Monthly FinOps Cadence That WorksThe Multicloud Cost Strategy GuideThe Multicloud Tagging DictionaryThe OCI Spend Review Cadence: Weekly to QuarterlyThe Repatriation Question in 2026The Risk Adjusted Approach to Azure CommitmentsThe Savings Tracking LedgerThe Tagging Policy That Actually Gets FollowedThe True Cost of a Cloud MigrationThe Use It or Lose It Risk in OCI CommitmentsToken Economics for Enterprise Buyers of GenAITooling Review Checklist for FinOpsTrading Commitment Term for Flexibility on AWSUniversal Credits Explained for BuyersUntangling Shared Costs on AWSUntangling Shared Costs on GCPVariance Analysis for Cloud BudgetsVertex AI Spend GovernanceVPC Endpoints as a Cost MoveWhat Cloud Sellers Will Offer and What They HideWhen AI Workloads Should Leave the CloudWhen Oracle Workloads Belong on OCI: A Buyer GuideWhen to Let an AWS Reservation LapseWhen You Need a FinOps Platform and When You Do NotWhy Cloud Bills Grow Faster Than UsageWhy Kubernetes Bills Are So Hard to ReadWindows Versus Linux Cost on AzureYour First AWS Cost Optimization SprintYour First GCP Cost Optimization Sprint
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