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$44.5 Billion in Cloud Spend Is Wasted Every Year

Harness FinOps 2025: 21% of enterprise cloud spend ($44.5B) is waste. 55% of developers say commitments are based on guesswork.

Dennis Vorobyov
Dennis Vorobyov
CEO & Founder, EltexSoft
September 28, 2025 · 6 min read

One in five dollars spent on cloud infrastructure is wasted. That's $44.5 billion globally in 2025, according to Harness's FinOps in Focus survey of 700 engineering leaders. The root cause isn't technical — it's organizational: engineering teams buy what they think they need, finance teams approve what they don't understand.

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Last updated September 28, 2025

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