Taming the Azure Spend Beast: Real-World FinOps Strategies for Cost Control

Why You Should Attend

2025 is the year cloud cost governance goes from nice-to-have to non-negotiable. Azure’s pricing, billing models, and service usage patterns have matured — but so have the risks of uncontrolled spend.

In this fast-paced session, Shannon Eldridge Kuehn, a cloud strategist and FinOps expert from AHEAD, will walk through proven approaches to understanding, optimizing, and automating Azure financial management.

Join us to learn:

• The most common ways Azure spend gets out of control — and how to stop the pain.
• How to enforce tagging, build cost accountability, and automate reporting.
• When to use Reservations, Savings Plans, and shut down non-prod resources.
• How automation and governance tools (like Azure Policy + PowerShell) can make cost control repeatable and scalable.