Cloud spending is accelerating faster than most organizations can manage it. According to Flexera’s State of the Cloud report, 82% of enterprises identify cloud cost optimization as their top initiative — yet the average organization wastes 28% of its cloud budget. FinOps, the operating model that unifies engineering, finance, and operations around cloud financial accountability, is […]
⚡ Key Takeaways Cloud costs are the second-largest operational expense for most engineering-led companies — and the fastest-growing. According to the FinOps Foundation, organizations waste on average 32% of their cloud spend. That’s not a vendor problem. It’s a governance and execution problem. I’m Roman Burdiuzha, co-founder and CTO at Gart Solutions, and I’ve personally led […]
Picking a cloud provider used to be a fairly contained decision: compare a few price sheets, check which region is closest to your users, and sign up. In 2026 it’s a different kind of decision. AI workloads now make up roughly 19% of total cloud spending, Kubernetes runs in production at 82% of organizations using containers, and […]
On-prem to cloud migration has stopped being a one-time IT initiative and become something enterprises revisit every time their infrastructure, compliance posture, or cost base shifts. If you are a CTO or CIO scoping a move to AWS, the question by 2026 is rarely whether the cloud belongs in your architecture — most environments already […]
A service-by-service breakdown of what EU clouds actually ship today versus AWS — and where the sovereign stack opportunity sits for systems integrators. Section 1 The Gap in Numbers AWS Frankfurt and Dublin regions expose the same full catalog of 200+ managed services as any other AWS region. European IaaS-first providers range from near-zero PaaS […]
AWS still offers unmatched scale, but for a large share of production workloads it has become the most expensive way to solve an ordinary infrastructure problem. That is the conclusion three Gart Solutions clients reached independently, in three different industries, before any of them had heard of each other’s projects. Each one asked the same […]
