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Design an AI roadmap that supports revenue, not just experiments
Create an AI roadmap aligned with business goals to drive revenue, prioritizing high-impact use cases, setting 90-day plans, leveraging AWS for data, compliance, MLOps, cost control, and secure AI deployment.
Alex Boardman
1 day ago4 min read


How to reduce cloud and AI spend without slowing product delivery
This playbook offers AWS cost optimization strategies—like right-sizing, serverless adoption, and AI inference control—to reduce cloud and AI expenses without slowing product delivery, featuring quick wins, decision frameworks, and key metrics.
Alex Boardman
5 days ago5 min read


FinOps for AI on AWS: A practical playbook to control data and model spend
This playbook guides AI cost control on AWS using FinOps principles, aligning spend with business goals, optimizing usage with tools like Spot Instances, Savings Plans, and cost allocation tags to ensure sustainable AI delivery.
Alex Boardman
Mar 303 min read


Optimising FinOps for Generative AI Workloads in Early‑Stage AWS Startups
Optimize GenAI costs on AWS startups by measuring spend with AWS tools, understanding unit economics, choosing efficient models, leveraging pricing options, enhancing GPU use, prompt engineering, and continuous cost monitoring.
Alex Boardman
Mar 274 min read


Practical cost control for AI workloads on AWS: scale without bill shock
Guide outlines practical strategies for controlling AWS AI workload costs: optimize GPU use, choose Trainium vs GPU wisely, manage vector DB/storage, apply FinOps tools, leverage SageMaker savings, and use Spot instances.
Alex Boardman
Mar 154 min read


FinOps for AI on AWS: a practical playbook for controlling GPU and model costs as you scale
This playbook guides managing AI GPU costs on AWS by leveraging cost-efficient instances, spot instances, right-sizing, autoscaling, and AWS tools to optimize spending and align technical choices with business value.
Alex Boardman
Mar 144 min read


Balancing AI ambition with cost control and compliance on AWS: a founder’s playbook
This playbook guides startups on AWS to balance AI ambition with cost control and compliance, using tools like AWS Budgets, SageMaker, and compliance services to ensure scalable, secure, and budget-conscious AI growth.
Alex Boardman
Mar 84 min read


A founder’s guide to AWS FinOps: cost control that scales with revenue
This guide outlines AWS FinOps for startups, emphasizing cloud unit economics, cost ownership, cost-aware architecture, tagging, budgeting, governance, and optimization tactics like Savings Plans and Kubernetes cost control to align spend with growth.
Alex Boardman
Mar 24 min read


Balancing AI Innovation with FinOps: A Practical Guide for Early-Stage AWS Startups
This guide helps early-stage AWS startups balance AI innovation with FinOps by using cost-effective AWS tools, clear financial goals, budgeting, tagging, and scalable AI experimentation to control expenses and boost growth.
Alex Boardman
Feb 224 min read


Commercially framing generative AI on AWS: from proof-of-concept to P&L impact
This guide explains how AWS startups can turn generative AI from proof-of-concept into measurable business impact by focusing on clear goals, key metrics, risk management, and strategic choices for ROI.
Alex Boardman
Feb 163 min read
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