Budget and Cost Optimization Questions

Practices for managing budgets and optimizing infrastructure and operational costs. Topics include right sizing and autoscaling strategies, workload placement and instance selection, reservation and committed use approaches, cost allocation and chargeback models across teams, forecasting and budgeting cycles, trade offs between capital and operating expenditures, preparing financial business cases for technical investment, measuring cost efficiency and total cost of ownership, and communicating cost versus feature trade offs to executives. Candidates should discuss actions to reduce waste in pipelines and services while maintaining reliability and performance.