This kind of across-the-board target highlights that the decision makers don't know where the costs/inefficiencies exist, or they don't care and can't be bothered to...
Many in the cloud cost control/FinOps community have stories of "somebody" being hired to finally bring sanity to cost control efforts, but being made responsible...
Most of us will work on projects that involve architectural change and/or complete re-architecture. This is an opportunity to address costs that should not be...
Engineering is where science meets economics. In the tech world, this means that we as engineers are primarily concerned with using scientific and logical tools...