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FinOps and cloud costs
23 stories in the last 90 days · 3 community threads
In short
FinOps is the practice of managing cloud spending as a shared job between engineering, finance and the business, so teams can see what they spend, forecast it and make trade-offs. It matters to buyers because cloud and AI costs scale with usage, and pricing models, commitment discounts and data transfer fees are easy to misjudge at contract time.
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Latest stories
The newest FinOps and cloud costs stories from the last 90 days. Each one opens with our summary and a link to the original source.
Enterprise Applications
The Next Chapter in Spend Management: AI Innovations Across SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, and SAP Concur
New capabilities and partner innovations help organizations turn spend insights into faster, better-informed decisions.
Observability
7 Best FinOps Tools for Cloud Cost Management in 2026
Compare the top FinOps tools for cloud cost management, commitment automation vs. tools that connect cost to the system behavior behind it.
DevOps & Platform Engineering
Why engineers ignore cloud cost governance (and fixes)
Discover why engineers ignore cloud cost governance and how to build developer cost accountability. Learn how Harness helps empower engineering teams. | Blog
Data & AnalyticsHow-to
A practical guide to cost optimization with Lakebase Postgres
Lakebase is a fully managed Postgres database, built for the operational realities...
Developer Tools
Take Control of the Economics of AI with Kong AI Gateway
Most AI cost management starts with infrastructure. A provider can tell you that you consumed a certain number of input and output tokens on a particular model. An observability platform can show requests, latency, tokens, and traces. A cloud cost…
DevOps & Platform Engineering
Why Engineers Ignore Cloud Cost Optimization & Fixes
Learn why engineers ignore cloud cost optimization and how to build a culture of FinOps governance. See how Harness helps. | Blog
Observability
Cut Carbon, Cut Costs: Achieve ESG Compliance with New Relic Cloud Cost Intelligence.
Align cloud cost and sustainability. Discover how New Relic uses Cloud Cost Intelligence to cut emissions by 37% and meet global ESG compliance.
Hybrid & MulticloudHow-to
FinOps for AI: a practical guide to managing AI cloud costs
AI has crossed the threshold from speculative R&D to the operational engine of the modern enterprise. Engineering teams deploy autonomous agents to handle complex customer workflows; product squads embed foundation model APIs directly into flagship software; and business units independently license AI-powered SaaS platforms to streamline daily work. What began as a series of isolated experiments…
Earlier in the last 90 days
- Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies for 2026 to Reduce SpendHarness · 24 Sept 2026
- AWS Cost Optimization: 15 Tactics for This QuarterHarness · 23 Sept 2026
- The AI cost reckoning: Why token bills are becoming the new cloud billFlexera · 23 Sept 2026
- Why Cloud Cost Optimization for Engineers FailsHarness · 22 Sept 2026
- Unit Economics of Agentic AI: Context × Turns × Model | Solo.ioSolo.io · 22 Sept 2026
- Spend Management expands to Enterprise Flexible Commitment plansVercel · 19 Sept 2026
- Kubernetes cost optimization: a practical guide for teamsHarness · 17 Sept 2026
- What impact does AI have on cloud and data cloud spend?Flexera · 16 Sept 2026
- Vultr Joins the FinOps Foundation and Tokenomics FoundationVultr · 16 Sept 2026
- Manage Cursor costs with Datadog Cloud Cost ManagementDatadog · 15 Sept 2026
- Cloud cost management isn’t just about cutting waste: What 5 years of Flexera’s State of the Cloud data revealsFlexera · 3 Sept 2026
- Democratizing FinOps with Wiz: Driving Cost Attribution with the Wiz Service CatalogWiz · 27 Aug 2026
- Introducing the new Coralogix Metrics EngineCoralogix · 13 Aug 2026
- Set a monthly budget on every Olly API KeyCoralogix · 13 Aug 2026
- The Future of Agentic AI Depends on Cloud Cost OptimizationVultr · 30 July 2026
What practitioners are discussing
Stories say what companies announced. These threads are where people who work with FinOps and cloud costs compare notes.
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Which skills are you hiring for in FY27 that you were not a year ago?
AI engineering, platform, FinOps, security automation? Share what is on your hiring plan.
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Which FinOps practice saved you the most money in the last year?
Commitment management, rightsizing, tagging and showback, architecture changes? Numbers welcome.
Companies in these stories
The active companies with the most FinOps and cloud costs stories in the last 90 days. It counts news coverage, not quality, market share or fit for your needs.
Related categories
Where FinOps and cloud costs sits among the categories Techarda covers. Each hub shows who is active, and each guide sets out how to evaluate vendors.
Terms to know
Plain definitions of terms that come up in FinOps and cloud costs stories, from the Techarda glossary.
Frequently asked questions
Where do teams usually find the quickest savings?
Idle or oversized resources, storage nobody uses, missing commitment discounts on steady workloads, and data moving between regions or out of the cloud. Tagging resources by owner makes these visible.
Who should own cloud costs?
The teams that create the spend, with finance setting budgets and a central FinOps function providing data, tooling and commitment management. Costs that belong to nobody tend to grow.
Does FinOps apply to AI workloads?
Yes. Model usage, GPU capacity and inference are priced per token, per hour or per request, and spend can rise quickly with adoption. The same habits apply: allocate costs to owners, forecast, and track the cost of each unit of work.
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