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"Cloud Cost Optimization Isn't Broken. The Approach Is."

January 15, 2026, 12:30pm PT | 3:30pm ET

Cloud spend rarely explodes overnight — it accumulates. A few over-provisioned workloads here, an unused environment there, and suddenly teams are optimizing after the invoice arrives. Most organizations attempt to solve this problem at the wrong stage, relying on reactive cost controls, manual audits or finance-led governance that arrives long after architectural decisions are locked in.

Shifting left reframes cloud value as an engineering responsibility, not a financial afterthought. Instead of asking, “How do we reduce costs?” the better question is, “How do we prevent waste from being deployed in the first place?” That means embedding optimization, security and governance directly into design, CI/CD and deployment workflows, where decisions are cheapest to fix and easiest to automate.

In this webinar, Patrick Brogan and Ben Linares of Harness will explain how a shift-left strategy enables proactive optimization, and show how Kubernetes environments can be continuously aligned with intent without slowing developers down. You’ll see how architecture becomes enforceable policy, how zero-drift environments eliminate configuration entropy, and how to turn best practices into defaults rather than documentation.

Highlights:

• Find out why optimizing cost efficiency, reliability, security or developer velocity at the expense of the other values creates hidden debt.
• Learn how to shift optimization and governance left to prevent rework, firefighting and spend remediation.
• Learn why drift between declared intent and runtime reality is inevitable without automation.
• See why architecture standards and cost controls scale only when enforced automatically.

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