Keep historical billing data intact in Cost Explorer AWS Cost Explorer now preserves historical billing data, even for accounts mapped into billing groups through Billing Conductor and Billing Transfer. AWS says the data remains priced at original billable rates. That…
Prepay GitHub usage and make spend way more predictable GitHub Pre-Purchase Plans are now available, giving customers a way to pre-commit units for eligible GitHub services over 12 months. The eligible services include Copilot, Actions, Codespaces, and AI Credits. This…
AI token costs are growing by 50% every month, and companies are getting a massive sticker shock. But how do you cut AI waste when the data is hidden on the developer’s computer? Watch this FinOps X interview with PointFive…
Companies are signing million-dollar AI deals without looking at the bill. In this FinOps X San Diego interview, cloud expert Adedeji shares exactly when the AI cost shock will hit and how to protect your business. Watch to see why…
Network troubleshooting gets more visibility in Google Cloud Cloud Network Insights is now generally available, giving teams monitoring, visualization, and diagnostics for multicloud and hybrid networks. The release includes support for Compute Engine VM Monitoring Points and Connectivity Tests. That…
Azure Monitor now links performance goals to customer impact Azure Monitor added Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives, and they’re generally available now. The key change is that teams can measure customer-experience metrics instead of only infrastructure signals. That…
FinOps automation gets a big boost with AWS FinOps Agent Amazon just previewed AWS FinOps Agent, a new agent that can answer cost questions, surface optimization opportunities, investigate anomalies, and even open tickets or post findings. The preview is available…
A stronger cost management toolkit for Azure workloads Azure Cosmos DB now has a public preview cost estimator that lets you model throughput, storage, regions, and capacity modes before provisioning. It’s designed to help teams forecast costs and choose deployments…
BigQuery billing gets a more efficient model for autoscaling BigQuery just made fluid scaling generally available, and the big win here is per-second billing with no minimum duration for autoscaling reservations. That means workloads can scale more granularly without running…
Better cost visibility lands across AWS tools AWS rolled out the new Pricing Change Analysis Dashboard, and it’s built to show how pricing changes affect your spend. The dashboard tracks every AWS pricing change across the SKUs you use and…
