Make ownership visible
Every major workload should have a business owner, technical owner, cost driver, service tier, and modernization plan so cloud spend can be managed as an operating decision.
Build FinOps into delivery
Budget alerts, tagging, unit economics, rightsizing, reserved capacity, and architecture reviews should be part of product-team rhythms rather than quarterly cleanup work.
Optimize for value, not only cost
The best governance model balances savings with resilience, performance, security, and delivery speed so teams can make tradeoffs with business context.