Spreadsheets to Autopilot: UiPath's Multi-Cloud Rate Optimization

UiPath Director of FinOps Tammy Burnitt and ProsperOps Co-Founder and CPO Erik Carlin walk through UiPath's journey from manual, spreadsheet-and-Kusto-driven commitment buying to autonomous multi-cloud rate optimization. As the first FinOps hire at UiPath, with no team, no budget, and a decommissioned CFM tool, Tammy shows how to build a self-funding AI for FinOps business case, win executive buy-in with data, and lean on the FinOps community along the way. Erik covers effective savings rate (ESR) as the output metric that matters, adaptive laddering and cyclical optimization strategies, and the real ESR gains across UiPath's Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS environments, plus why Azure's retirement of one and three-year RIs starting July 1st is a rate-optimization event worth watching. 00:00 Intro: A Team of One, No Budget, and a Mandate to Cut Cloud Spend 07:06 The FinOps Community and Building the Business Case 10:05 Effective Savings Rate and Sophisticated Rate Optimization 16:04 Winning Executive Buy-In: Framing, Objections, and Planning for the No 21:47 Runway, Results, and the Azure Modernization Event 31:38 The FinOps Flywheel and Key Takeaways Watch the Day 1 Keynote and Tokenomics Foundation announcement: https://www.youtube.com/live/W4g8xvduIbs Watch the Day 2 Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/live/vyQTW0PLw7A Learn more about Token Economics: https://tokeneconomics.com https://x.finops.org https://join.finops.org#FinOps #FinOpsX #RateOptimization #CloudSavings #Multicloud