Guide to FinOps Certified: AI Value Mastering Artificial Intelligence Costs The accelerated expansion of generative artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs), and graphics processing unit (GPU)-based infrastructure has caused a structural shift in cloud financial management. Traditional Cloud Financial Management…
AI Token Economics Weekly – AI Providers Updates Week of August 10, 2026 Anthropic Claude Code now shows gateway spend limits before they become a problem Anthropic Claude Code now surfaces gateway spend limits in usage warnings, including the spending…
FinOps Certified Engineer (FCE): Complete Certification Guide Although organizations waste up to 30% of their cloud budgets on inefficient resources and often view engineering as a mere cost center, this is not the fault of developers, who were hired to…
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…
Get more precise visibility into AI consumption in Cloud Billing Google Cloud Billing added an “Originating products” filter and group-by option. The update also includes a Gemini Enterprise preset report. The new view helps customers attribute and analyze AI-related consumption,…
Discover how Cost Goblin enables local AWS cost analysis without additional infrastructure, third-party tools, or per-user dashboard costs. In this Summit Series interview, Victor speaks with Etienne, the creator of this open-source tool powered by DuckDB. Enter the Summit:
AI Token Economics Weekly – AI Providers Updates Week of August 4-8, 2026 OpenAI GPT-5.6 Just Got Way Cheaper (and Faster) to Run OpenAI dropped some serious pricing changes for GPT-5.6, and the numbers are hard to ignore. Luna pricing…
BigQuery just got better for cross-cloud querying Google Cloud added cross-cloud connections in BigQuery, giving teams a more cost-efficient way to query AWS, Azure, and Salesforce Data 360 than BigQuery Omni. Google Cloud also updated the BigQuery JDBC driver with…
Azure is ending reservation exchanges for some savings-plan-covered services Microsoft announced that reservation exchanges will end for services covered by Azure savings plans starting February 1, 2027. Active reservations will get one final exchange, and after that the exchange option…
AWS Marketplace pricing is a lot easier to understand now Amazon Web Services just added AI Insights to Marketplace listings, so buyers can see pricing explained in plain language before they commit. The update breaks down pricing units, scaling behavior,…
