Chatting With Eli Mansoor- CEO at OskaQ Consulting, Advisor At ScaleOps, Angel Investor; FinOps Evangelist; FinOps As A Service; AWS Contract Negotiation From Israel- Eli Mansoor is a seasoned leader in cloud transformation with 25 years of experience in the tech industry and nearly a decade in the cloud sector, including four years at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Recently, Eli left AWS to follow his passion and founded OskaQ Consulting LTD, a firm dedicated to improving cloud customers’ gross margins by optimizing vendor agreements and reducing cloud spending.
During his four years at AWS, Eli served as an Account Manager, guiding enterprise clients through their cloud transformation journeys. Later, he transitioned to a Business Development role as part of the AWS EC2 Compute team. Before AWS, Eli held leadership positions as the Israel manager for CloudHealth Technologies (acquired by VMware), a Cloud Financial Management SaaS platform, and for Rackspace (acquired by Apollo Global Management). In these roles, he helped numerous organizations navigate digital transformation, establish Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoE), save millions in cloud costs, build FinOps practices, and secure better deals with cloud vendors or resellers.
In 2019, Eli co-authored Mastering AWS Cost Optimization, a book that has become essential reading for FinOps engineers worldwide. The third edition is now available in English, with a Korean release coming soon.
At OskaQ Consulting, Eli continues to support companies in negotiating better cloud agreements, saving millions in cloud spending, fostering cost-aware cultures, advancing cloud vendor partnerships, complying with migration programs, and contributing to writing the Israeli Government’s FinOps practice guide as part of the Nimbus project.
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