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AWS Updates 2026-07-10 | Cloud Provider News
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…
GCP Updates 2026-07-10 | Cloud Provider News
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 Updates 2026-07-10 | Cloud Provider News
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 Was Hard Until I Understood These SRE Concepts
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…
How to Cut SaaS Waste with a FinOps Mindset
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.…
The Future of FinOps & AI Spend in 2026
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…
I Wish I Knew This About AI in FinOps When I Started
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 Updates 2026-07-02 | Cloud Provider News
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…
AWS Updates 2026-07-02 | Cloud Provider News
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…