Survey Surfaces Lack Of DevOps Visibility Into Consumption Of Cloud Infrastructure
DevOps.com, Friday, March 7th, 2025
A survey of 700 engineering leaders (350) and developers (350) from the U.S. and United Kingdom (UK) conducted by Harness finds less than half have access to real-time insights into idle cloud resources (43%), unused or orphaned resources (39%), and over or under-provisioned workloads (33%).
More troubling still, more than half of the application developers (55%) said purchasing decisions are ultimately based on guesswork and 32% have fully automated practices to enforce cost savings. On the plus side, 62% of developers want more control over, and responsibility for, managing cloud infrastructure costs.
Overall, half of all respondents (52%) admitted there is a disconnect between their application development teams and FinOps functions within their organization.