Background
Morten is a co-founder of Cloud Cost Room, the independent, vendor-neutral cloud cost optimization and FinOps firm founded in 2019. Across two decades in IT — spanning infrastructure, operations and cloud — Morten's focus has been the same problem the firm exists to solve: cloud bills that grow faster than the value behind them. Morten is a FinOps Certified Practitioner, accredited by the FinOps Foundation.
At Cloud Cost Room, Morten works hands-on with engineering and finance teams to find waste, rightsize before committing, and lock in savings that hold across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. The writing here reflects that engagement experience — practitioner guides, not vendor marketing — and is part of the firm's commitment to staying vendor-neutral: the only side Morten is on is the customer's.
Cloud cost optimization · FinOps operating models · commitment and rightsizing strategy · cost governance across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and OCI.
Connect with Morten on LinkedIn ↗, or read more about Cloud Cost Room.
Selected articles by Morten
The complete cloud cost optimization playbook for 2026
The Cleanup Playbook: 50 Things to Delete Today
The Complete Guide to AWS Cost Optimization in 2026
The Complete Guide to Cloud Commitment Management
The Complete Guide to Cloud Cost Visibility and Tooling
The Complete Guide to Cloud Storage and Data Cost Optimization
1-Year vs 3-Year Commitments: How to Decide
Account and Subscription Structure for Cost Control
Amazon API Gateway Cost: REST vs HTTP APIs Compared
Amazon CloudFront Cost Optimization: Price Classes and Cache Hit Ratio
Amazon EMR Cost Optimization: Spot, Instance Fleets, and EMR Serverless
Amazon OpenSearch and Elasticsearch Cost Control
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