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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


Strategic AI leadership for AWS‑native startups: tie AI to revenue and operations
Guide AWS-native startups to prioritize AI projects linked to revenue and operations using a value stack framework; focus on measurable goals, GenAI pilots, security, compliance, and governance for scalable, secure growth.
Alex Boardman
Mar 214 min read


Balancing AI ambition with FinOps reality on AWS: a practical playbook for scaling startups
This playbook guides startups on AWS to balance AI innovation with financial discipline, covering cost forecasting, controlled experimentation, build vs buy choices, LLM cost optimization, infrastructure selection, FinOps strategies, and a 90-day scaling plan.
Alex Boardman
Mar 203 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


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


Practical AI leadership on AWS: clear decisions that drive revenue
AWS startups should prioritize AI use cases that directly boost revenue, balance cost with impact, decide pragmatically on build vs. buy, optimize AWS costs, ensure security, and tie data efforts to business outcomes for growth.
Alex Boardman
Feb 214 min read


Data strategy for scaling on AWS: balancing operational maturity with growth
AWS startups must balance rapid growth with operational maturity by prioritizing key data processes, using scalable tools like S3 and Athena, controlling costs via FinOps, and enforcing governance and security for sustainable growth.
Alex Boardman
Feb 182 min read
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