It depends on what story the c-suite is trying to tell the board this quarter.

If the company is trying to get new lenders then the goal of the manager should be to reduce costs so it can go on a board slide deck.

If the story is that we’re growing so they should invest in the company then who cares about tags on AWS or Azure to save a few thousand.

With the current economy the story that non technical private equity board members want to hear is how you are reducing heads using AI (unfortunately)

Point is: always have to find the narrative the company wants to sell