**Highlights**
* **Jay from Advanced**
* Advanced is a software vendor with over 3000 employees and a multi-billion dollar ARR.
* They have a mixed range of architectures, including multiple VMs, containerized Solutions, Kubernetes clusters, and a mainframe.
* Their cloud estate is about 160 AWS accounts and 400 Azure subscriptions across 16 tenant groups.
* They moved to the cloud about a decade ago and have been on a journey to optimize their cloud costs ever since.
* **Andy from United**
* United is a large airline with over 100,000 employees and a revenue of over $40 billion.
* They are a startup-like company that is constantly innovating.
* They are always looking for ways to improve the customer experience.
* They use a scrappy mentality to get things done.
* **Discussion**
* The importance of having a strong leadership team that supports a culture of cost optimization.
* The need to educate finance teams on cloud economics.
* The importance of having a budget for innovation and putting guardrails in place to ensure that innovation doesn’t stifle cost governance.
* The challenges of associating revenue with cost savings.
* The benefits of using CCM to reduce cloud spend.
* The reasons why a company would choose to implement CCM.