Technical and Strategic Analysis of the FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst The FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst credential is an intermediate-level professional certification developed by the FinOps Foundation. It validates the technical competency required to work with the FOCUS™ (FinOps Open Cost…
AI Economics Weekly – AI Providers Updates Week of September 4, 2026 Anthropic Claude Code adds clearer spend limits and prompt-cache visibility Claude Code v2.1.251 adds spend-limit and prompt-cache monitoring, giving FinOps teams more direct signals for tracking token costs…
Kinesis Streaming Tables Can Cut Iceberg Delivery and Query Costs Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now offers serverless streaming tables for Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables, including inline compaction. AWS states that the feature can reduce delivery costs by…
BigQuery Restores Daily Token Quotas for Generative AI Functions BigQuery has restored daily token quotas for generative AI functions, giving teams a direct way to limit token consumption. These quotas can help reduce the risk of unexpected generative artificial intelligence…
Azure Resource Manager MCP Adds Cost Tools to AI Workflows Azure Resource Manager MCP now provides cost query and pricing tools by default, with optional capabilities for forecasting, budgets, alerts, reservations, Savings Plans, and Advisor recommendations. The integration lets artificial…
Full Guide to the FinOps Certified: Technology Value Certification The rapid evolution of corporate IT architectures has radically transformed the financial management of Information Technology (IT). The traditional view, strictly limited to controlling elastic public cloud spend, is now obsolete.…
AI Economics Weekly – AI Providers Updates Week of August 24, 2026 Anthropic Claude Code adds a practical workflow for reducing API spend Claude Code now includes a guided way to optimize Claude API costs. The new /claude-api cost-optimize command…
Build a clearer cost strategy for production AI agents Microsoft outlined an AI FinOps approach for Microsoft Foundry focused on moving AI projects from pilots to measurable returns. The approach combines cost attribution, model routing, caching, fine-tuning, workflow optimization, token…
Catch unexpected spending from third-party models on Amazon Bedrock AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now monitors third-party foundation models running on Amazon Bedrock, including provider-hosted models such as Anthropic Claude. Alerts include root-cause breakdowns by account, Region, service, and usage type.…
Keep AI agent spending flexible while adding firm budget guardrails Google Cloud introduced flexible billing and cost controls for AI agents on Google Cloud, giving teams more ways to support agent workloads without losing spending visibility. Gemini Enterprise now supports…
