Make AI and HPC images easier to standardize Google Cloud previewed Advanced Compute Images for AI and HPC workloads. These are preconfigured, performance-tuned OS images that include things like drivers, fabrics, and Slurm agents. That can cut operational overhead and…
Store logs more cheaply with automatic tiering CloudWatch Logs now has intelligent storage tiering. It automatically moves logs between Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access tiers based on access patterns. For teams with large log volumes, this can simplify…
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…
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…
