--- title: "FinOps for Engineers: Why Your Architecture Has a Price Tag - Yihui Xu - NDC Copenhagen 2025" url: https://daily.dev/posts/finops-for-engineers-why-your-architecture-has-a-price-tag---yihui-xu---ndc-copenhagen-2025-i362xabr1 source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm5f-T126NQ type: video:youtube source: "NDC Conferences" published: 2026-01-21T10:49:25.607Z updated: 2026-01-21T10:49:51.705Z tags: ["cloud", "azure", "finops"] reading_time: 44 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FinOps for Engineers: Why Your Architecture Has a Price Tag - Yihui Xu - NDC Copenhagen 2025 **[NDC Conferences](https://daily.dev/sources/ndc)** · 44 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloud architecture decisions directly impact costs, often unexpectedly. Multi-region deployments, premium storage tiers, unfiltered logging, and cross-region data replication can dramatically increase cloud bills. Engineers can achieve 30-50% cost reductions through lifecycle management policies, storage tier optimization, log sampling and filtering, autoscaling with business metrics instead of CPU alone, and reducing unnecessary cross-region replications. Cost optimization should be treated as a non-functional requirement integrated into CI/CD pipelines through pull request cost estimates, policy-as-code checks, and engineering-facing cost dashboards. Real savings come from architectural decisions, not vendor negotiations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Your APIs Are Costing More Than You Think](https://daily.dev/posts/your-apis-are-costing-more-than-you-think-dd24wtzpb) · The New Stack · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why Cloud Optimization Is an Engineering Problem](https://daily.dev/posts/why-cloud-optimization-is-an-engineering-problem-zirwltvzb) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure), [#finops](https://daily.dev/tags/finops) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/finops-for-engineers-why-your-architecture-has-a-price-tag---yihui-xu---ndc-copenhagen-2025-i362xabr1)