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…
Why FinOps for SaaS Is the Biggest Gap in Cloud Cost Management (And How to Tackle It) Discover why SaaS spend is a black hole in FinOps with no tool to scrape it all into a single pane of glass.…
What does the future of FinOps and AI spend optimization look like heading into 2027? In this interview recorded live at FinOps X in San Diego, we sit down with Zach Johnson to break down the biggest announcements, trends, and…
What Every FinOps Practitioner Needs to Know About Using AI to 10x Their Productivity In this interview recorded live at FinOps X in San Diego, AWS FinOps expert Ricardo shares how he went from barely using AI to making it…
Azure Copilot and FinOps MCP Server Push Agentic Cloud Ops Forward Microsoft is shaping a new agentic cloud operations model that connects observability, governance, and optimization in a closed loop. As part of that, Azure Copilot observability agent is now…
EC2 Auto Scaling Now Prioritizes Reserved Capacity First Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduced a reservations-then-balanced distribution strategy. It tries Capacity Reservations first, including ODCRs, Capacity Blocks, and Interruptible Capacity Reservations, before balancing across Availability Zones. Redshift Adds More Reserved Instance…
How to get High Savings with Commitments using a Free FinOps Tool Are you afraid to lock into a 3-year cloud contract because AI tech changes so fast? Buying on-demand burns your cash, but long commitments can trap your budget.…
