FinOps Weekly

FinOps Weekly

AI Provider Cost Updates 2026-08-21 | AI Economics News

AI Providers Cost Updates

Anthropic Attribute gateway API spend to individual users Claude Code now helps teams connect gateway usage to the people generating it. An opt-in gateway setting forwards signed-in user identity, allowing organizations to attribute upstream API spend to individual users. Claude…

GCP Updates 2026-08-20 | Cloud Provider News

Google Cloud Updates

Flexible GPU Commitments Now Cover G2 and G4 Machine Series Google Cloud has made spend-based Compute flexible committed use discounts generally available for G2 and G4 GPU machine series. The commitments cover vCPUs, memory, Local SSD, and GPUs. They can…

AZURE Updates 2026-08-20 | Cloud Provider News

Azure Updates

Plan Ahead for the Retirement of License-Included Azure VMware Solution Microsoft has announced that the license-included Azure VMware Solution service will retire on August 30, 2027 following changes to VMware licensing. Customers must plan migration to portable bring-your-own VMware Cloud…

AWS Updates 2026-08-20 | Cloud Provider News

AWS Updates

AWS Makes FinOps Reporting Easier With Managed Billing Dashboards AWS has added preconfigured billing dashboards that give teams a ready-made view of cost trends, compute and database spending, commitment coverage, Savings Plans, reservations, utilization, and forecasted costs. The dashboards are…

AWS Updates 2026-08-12 | Cloud Provider News

AWS Updates

Put Bedrock inference costs on the right teams with IAM-based allocation Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM principal for inference requests through the bedrock-mantle endpoint, giving teams a clearer way to connect usage with users and roles. Customers…