Drive adoption without the noise: The incremental path to shifting cloud costs left

Most teams approach shift-left adoption the same way: enable everything, enforce everywhere. They are then left wondering why engineers tune them out when they are asked to reduce cloud spend.

The fix is not better policies; it is fewer policies at a time, implemented with purpose.

This talk shares the counterintuitive strategy that took one team from 45% to 95% prevention rates: radical prioritization. By disabling 27 policies and focusing on a single objective, the team eliminated the noise that killed adoption. No escalation meetings. No compliance tickets. Just consistent progress on what actually mattered.