Screaming in the Cloud · 2025-10-16 · 40 min
Deana Solis, 2022 FinOps Foundation Evangelist of the Year, joins Corey Quinn to discuss her winding career path from electrical engineering to healthcare IT to FinOps. She shares why certifications are "largely performative," warns that AI can turn your AWS bill into "a telephone number," and explains why NAT Gateway costs hit everyone from hobbyists to enterprises. The episode covers cloud repatriation conspiracy theories, translating between engineering and finance teams, and why good FinOps work is really just getting humans in a room to talk. Show Highlights: (02:36) FinOps Foundation (03:15) FinOps as Marriage Counseling Between Engineering and Finance (06:00) Deana’s Journey From Electrical Engineering to FinOps (12:41) The Performative Nature of Certifications (16:22) AI as Both a Threat and Tool in FinOps (20:41) Why AI Is Flooding the Job Market with Noise (25:09) Why FinOps Is Never Boring Despite Sounding Like It (29:10) The NAT Gateway Problem (33:09) The Generational Divide in Cloud Platform Preferences (37:23) Stay In Contact With Deana Solis About Deana Solis: Deana Solis is a senior FinOps engineer with more than 20 years of infrastructure management experience.
Other episodes covering the same guests and topics, from across The B2B Podcast Index.
115: Rethinking AI Governance for Enterprise Adoption with Dr. Markus SchmidbergerUsing AI at Work · on AWS92 / 100
Why your research needs a “thinking cave” with Sarah KlingThe Curiosity Current: A Market Research Podcast · on Amazon89 / 100
He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years - with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of RenderA Product Market Fit Show · on AWS89 / 100
512. Is SpaceX Over or Undervalued, Why Consensus Kills, How Chewy Beat Amazon, and the GameStop Saga from a Board Member (Larry Cheng)The Full Ratchet (TFR) · on Amazon86 / 100
From Amazon to Arm: The Blueprint for Scaling Tech Giants with Jason ChildSecrets of Rockstar CFOs · on Amazon85 / 100
Slow Decisions Are Killing Your eCommerce Business - Alex PospekhovThe eCom Ops Podcast · on Amazon85 / 100
When AI Starts Writing the Pull Requests with Madelyn Olson77 / 100
The Appalachian Cloud Trail: Hiking, Cloud Economics, and Finding Perspective62 / 100
Coding Agents, Chaos, and the Future of Dev Work with Dexter Horthy73 / 100
The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent with David Yanacek78 / 100
Building the Backbone of AI Agents: Telemetry, Open Source, and the Future of Developer Infrastructure with Brian Douglas79 / 100