OpenAI Simpler API Usage Tiers: Build, Launch, and Grow Billing just got easier to follow, because OpenAI cut its API usage tiers from five down to three. The new tiers are Build, Launch, and Grow. Organizations now move between them…
AWS finally makes cross-Region data lake queries much easier Amazon Redshift now supports cross-Region queries for your data lake. Amazon Redshift can now query Amazon S3 data lake tables in another AWS Region without copying or replicating the data first.…
Azure to raise prices for selected VMs and Storage in seven regions Azure announces regional price increases for selected Virtual Machines and Storage services. Starting February 1, 2027, prices for certain Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Storage services will increase…
BigQuery gets smarter chart-based conversational analytics Google Cloud adds conversational analytics charting improvements in BigQuery. BigQuery conversational analytics now supports chatting with graphs, using multiple graphs, tables, views, and UDFs as data sources. That makes the conversational experience more capable…
Anthropic Claude Code finally fixes those confusing spend-meter and billing glitches Anthropic rolled out a fix for the Claude apps gateway spend meter, and it’s a solid win if you’ve ever scratched your head over your billing numbers. The update…
Google Cloud Fit bigger in-memory workloads on a single machine Google Cloud’s new X5 machine series pushes memory limits higher. The new configurations go up to 48 TB of memory, beyond the previous 32 TB limit. That’s especially relevant for…
Lower your AI inference costs with new Bedrock model options AWS just added new model choices on Amazon Bedrock. GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available, and AWS says it delivers strong performance at about one-fifth the cost of GPT-6 Astra.…
Cut idle database spend with new Hyperscale Serverless controls Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Serverless now pauses and resumes automatically. The new auto-pause and auto-resume feature is in public preview. This is one of the clearest FinOps updates in the Azure…
Anthropic Opus 5.5 brings clear token prices to Claude Code Claude Code now defaults to Opus 5.5, with published rates to help you plan model costs. The model has a 1-million-token context window. Its listed rates are $4 per million…
Azure’s biggest FinOps change this week is about reservation flexibility Microsoft announced a change to Azure reservation exchanges for services covered by savings plans, with exchanges ending starting February 1, 2027. Existing reservations bought before that date will get only…
