10.6.1 · Skill in Operational economics

Infrastructure costs

What servers, databases and services cost to run.

Infrastructure costs grow with usage and with forgotten resources. Knowing the main cost drivers helps engineers make cheaper design choices. Cost is a metric worth putting on a dashboard.

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Resources

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FinOps principles ↗
FinOps Foundation · 4 min
Cost as an engineering metric: teams own their usage, decisions follow business value, data arrives fast.
docsGo deeper
Introduction to cloud unit economics ↗
FinOps Foundation · 2025 · 20 min
Measuring cost per customer or per transaction, which tells you far more than the total bill.

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