Master the collocations for right-sizing instances, tracking spending, setting budgets, and identifying waste in cloud environments.
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The FinOps team recommended moving from on-demand to reserved instances to ___ instances and cut the monthly AWS bill by 40%.
Right-size instances is the standard FinOps and cloud cost collocation for matching compute resources to actual workload demand, avoiding both over- and under-provisioning. 'Resize along' and 'shrink around' are informal. 'Reduce out' is not a standard phrase.
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The platform team set up Cost Explorer dashboards to ___ spending and detect unexpected cost spikes in real time.
Track spending is the standard FinOps collocation for continuously monitoring cloud expenditure across accounts and services. 'Monitor along' and 'check out' are informal. 'Watch around' is not standard in a cost management context.
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Engineering leadership asked each team to ___ budgets for the next fiscal quarter and alert on overruns.
Set budgets is the standard financial planning and FinOps collocation for establishing spending limits for cloud accounts or services. 'Create along' and 'define out' are informal. 'Build around' does not convey the act of setting a financial limit.
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The FinOps audit helped the team ___ waste from hundreds of orphaned EBS volumes and idle load balancers.
Identify waste is the standard cloud cost optimisation collocation for locating unused or inefficient cloud resources that are generating unnecessary charges. 'Find along' and 'spot around' are informal. 'Detect out' is redundant.
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After the quarterly review, the team agreed to ___ savings plans to lock in discounts for steady-state workloads.
Commit to savings plans is the standard AWS and cloud cost collocation for purchasing reserved capacity commitments in exchange for discounted pricing. 'Sign along' and 'buy around' are informal. 'Take out' does not convey the financial commitment required.