You want an AWS Budget that alerts only on SAP spend, not the whole account. Which template do you pick and what scope do you set — and why won't a standard template do?

An engineer proposes a tagging-and-rightsizing project that will take two sprints and is forecast to save a few hundred dollars a month. By what test do you decide whether to greenlight it?

You enable AWS vCPU Optimization on an 8-vCPU instance so SAP only licenses 6 vCPUs. What happens to your EC2 bill?

A team says they 'do FinOps' because they run Cost Explorer and Compute Optimizer. What does the FinOps framework say they're actually missing?

On-premise SAP IT spend had a natural ceiling. Why does moving to AWS — even with up-to-50% savings potential — tend to make costs snowball instead?

How does Cost Explorer's Cost Anomaly Detection decide what to alert on, and how is the trigger different from an AWS Budgets alert?

A team kicking off FinOps wants the fastest dollar win, so they jump straight to right-sizing SAP and buying Compute Savings Plans (the Optimization pillar). Why will that effort largely miss its target until they do something else first?