The Better Your Team Optimizes AI Spend, the Less Your Forecast Is Worth
Model prices drop every 6 to 9 months and a single routing or compression change can cut a line item 85% to 99%. Here is why AI cost forecasting breaks the cloud playbook, and what to forecast...
AWS’s FinOps Agent Will Tell You Why Your Bill Spiked. It Won’t Stop the Next One.
AWS put its FinOps Agent into public preview on June 9, 2026. It investigates cost spikes to root cause, but it's read-only, after the fact, and single-cloud. A practitioner's read on what it does...
FOCUS 1.4 Closes the Gap Between What You Used and What You Were Billed
Ratified June 4, 2026, FOCUS 1.4 adds Invoice Detail and Billing Period datasets so FinOps and accounts payable can reconcile the cloud bill against usage in one schema. Here is what changes for...
Azure is adding a 128 KiB minimum billable object size to the cool, cold, and archive tiers. New accounts hit July 1, 2026; existing accounts July 1, 2027. Small files can bill up to 32x larger. Here...
79% of Enterprises Blew Their AI Budget Last Year. Mature FinOps Teams Did Worse.
DoIT's 2026 survey of 500 finance leaders reveals that mature FinOps teams overspend on AI by 31%, nearly double the rate of early-stage peers. Unit economics tracking is the standout fix.
30% of AI Projects Die After Proof of Concept. Nobody Budgeted for the Failure.
Gartner projected 30% of AI projects would be abandoned after proof of concept. The actual number is worse. A stage-gated kill criteria framework for AI investments.
