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I don't care for this paradigm because the architects and developers likely have very little context upon which to base decisions. There are tradeoffs between time to develop, cost to run and reliability that it runs at. Where you want to make those tradeoffs is more of a business decision than a technical one.

A high margin product might want to launch quickly and reliably, costs be damned. Another product may need to run as cheap as possible, even if it's unreliable and takes a long time to develop.

FinOps translates business goals into technical requirements. It's not just cutting everything down to as cheap as it can be.