How to Choose the Right AI Model on GCP Without Blowing Your Budget in 2025. In this FinOps Weekly episode, we sit down with Bar to break down how to select the best AI model on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI…
Together with FinOps for AI: See It. Control It. Use It Safely. Join this FinOps for AI webinar to learn how to control AI costs, improve visibility, implement governance, and justify AI investments with confidence. 📅 August 20, 2026 🕚…
Track and optimize agents more easily in Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Foundry added GPT-5.6, hosted agents, tracing, agent optimization, and ROI tracking. The update includes GA hosted agents, tracing and evaluation for agent observability, an agent optimizer, and an ROI feature…
Make AI and HPC images easier to standardize Google Cloud previewed Advanced Compute Images for AI and HPC workloads. These are preconfigured, performance-tuned OS images that include things like drivers, fabrics, and Slurm agents. That can cut operational overhead and…
Store logs more cheaply with automatic tiering CloudWatch Logs now has intelligent storage tiering. It automatically moves logs between Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access tiers based on access patterns. For teams with large log volumes, this can simplify…
AWS cuts GPU management fees and makes accelerated workloads cheaper to run AWS just lowered management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types on Amazon ECS Managed Instances. G-series fees are down 35%, and P-series plus AWS Trainium fees are…
Google Cloud makes Bigtable tagging easier for cost allocation Bigtable now supports binding tags to instances at creation. It also supports enforcing mandatory tag assignments through policies. Since this is now in GA, it’s ready for teams that want stronger…
Azure lays out a clearer path for long-term IaaS cost optimization Microsoft published new guidance for designing and optimizing Azure IaaS environments. The guidance covers compute right-sizing, storage lifecycle policies, networking efficiency, and continuous optimization. That makes it a practical…
FinOps Meets SRE: How Site Reliability Engineering Principles Can Transform Your Cloud Cost Management Strategy in 2025. Discover how key SRE concepts like toil, SLAs, and blameless postmortems can be applied to FinOps practices. In this episode, an SRE-turned-FinOps engineer…
