https://studio-7063241873-9e774.web.app/ Everything happening in FinOps, in one place. en Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:34:08 GMT 360 https://medium.com/@robinvp3/can-we-afford-to-run-it-again-why-scientific-computing-needs-finops-6fa34d90cd2d finops-radar:c29a5f317150b9bd Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:05:36 GMT Most scientific workflows are judged on one question: how fast can this run? Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) Opinion & analysis https://dev.to/cloudwiseteam/a-cost-anomaly-job-can-run-green-and-check-nothing-cur-lag-and-a-date-today-gate-ae finops-radar:d2971b15b92c84d6 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT Our cost-anomaly sweep runs every day at 08:00 UTC. It reads daily cost rows built from AWS billing data, and it only evaluated a service if that service had a row dated today. Billing data lags real usage. At 08:00 UTC a row dated today almost never exists. So the sweep evaluated zero services on every run, with no… (via DEV Community - finops tag) AWS FOCUS / standards Understand usage & cost https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wzut96/storage_is_the_one_line_item_nobody_owns_and_i finops-radar:11a39866db3c6a72 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:08:05 GMT Disclosure: I work at Lucidity, we do block storage optimisation. No pitch here. This is something I keep running into and I want to know how other teams handle it. Compute gets owned. Someone provisioned the instance, a service runs on it, it sits in a team's budget, and somebody notices when it moves. Storage does… (via r/FinOps) Governance & practice Quantify business value https://dev.to/zop_8abedcc7e12/what-an-idle-gpu-endpoint-costs-you-per-hour-e40 finops-radar:8124016253af13f5 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:35:42 GMT TL;DR AWS SageMaker charges full instance rates for every provisioned endpoint, running notebook, and provisioned concurrency slot, regardless of whether a single inference request arriv Quick Answer (TL;DR) AWS SageMaker charges full instance rates for every provisioned endpoint, running notebook, and provisioned… (via DEV Community - finops tag) AWS AI & GPU cost Optimize usage & cost https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wzsnnn/marked_as_applied_is_not_the_same_as_actually finops-radar:587e3729cd5b56f8 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:05:10 GMT Most teams track cost recommendations with a simple status. Open, applied, or dismissed. But applied only means someone clicked a button. No one checks if the server was really made smaller. Or if someone made it bigger again two weeks later. So the savings report shows one number, and the cloud bill shows another… (via r/FinOps) Optimize usage & cost https://medium.com/alvin-ai/bigquery-cost-optimization-the-complete-finops-framework-6c741de5d76c finops-radar:c241be74894905ef Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:24:27 GMT I spend most of my week talking to people about their BigQuery bill, and the conversation usually splits along the same line. Continue reading on Alvin AI » (via Medium - finops tag) Google Cloud FOCUS / standards Optimize usage & cost https://medium.com/@thalaxo/le-cloud-un-gouffre-financier-non-juste-mal-g%C3%A9r%C3%A9-9f217d5fb823 finops-radar:179459af5f7373b0 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:01:03 GMT Je me souviens très bien d’un projet où une équipe avait pour mission de déployer un même workload sur AWS, Azure et GCP. L’idée était… Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) AWS Azure Google Cloud Multi-cloud https://medium.com/@kartikanand_11915/agentic-finops-part-4-of-5-89e09e050646 finops-radar:982e8b9942556322 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:17:51 GMT ## Stop Paying for Model Calls That Cannot Change the Outcome Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) https://medium.com/@willpo/what-did-this-ticket-cost-the-question-your-ai-tooling-cant-answer-ab5b55d38515 finops-radar:e7aeea125e513a74 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:42:44 GMT Your AI bill is sorted by person. A Jira ticket isn’t a person, so what any one piece of work cost isn’t on the bill. Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/estimate-and-compare-aws-costs-with-the-aws-pricing-calculator-part-1-creating-and-comparing-workload-estimates finops-radar:9a1bd9d81864a5b6 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:45:39 GMT With the AWS Pricing Calculator , you can estimate the cost savings of migrating to AWS Graviton processors before you move a single workload. You can model the numbers directly in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console , no spreadsheets are required. AWS Pricing Calculator offers two estimate types, Workload… (via AWS Cloud Financial Management Blog) AWS Tooling Optimize usage & cost https://medium.com/@kartikanand_11915/agentic-finops-part-3-of-5-a974f453fbdb finops-radar:27d2c809bfd2bcc6 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:46:31 GMT ## Expected Cost Is Not Maximum Cost Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wzfa5r/business_context_and_forecast finops-radar:a3d3ea53a5f6fd8b Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:46:20 GMT how do you build in business context into your forecasts? we use a linear regression on historical usage, and are happy with our model to predict forwards but this gets blown out the water if a new feature goes live, marketing run paid activity to the product etc. its a pain and I’m getting questioned by management… (via r/FinOps) New feature Governance & practice Quantify business value https://medium.com/@taniafedirko/everyone-can-tell-you-what-ai-cost-nobody-can-tell-you-what-it-bought-f837b4664d56 finops-radar:34ce1282c33f35ea Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:43:02 GMT The FinOps community now names AI value as the skill it most needs. Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) AI & GPU cost https://dev.to/vlad_z_16b6320e21f32bee0d/a-22000-gpu-bill-with-a-very-quiet-night-shift-5c81 finops-radar:fd02076d1adbeab0 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:12:33 GMT The one I think about most is the account where the infrastructure was correct and the cost was still wrong ML startup. Eight engineers. Production inference API with real traffic Their AWS bill was $22,000 a month. Mostly GPU compute for inference I went in expecting to find over-provisioned instances. I found the… (via DEV Community - finops tag) AWS AI & GPU cost https://cloudzero.com/blog/shipped-activity-categorization finops-radar:7a29c72861b02a31 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:08:03 GMT Why this matters Most AI spend comes in with no tags and no owner attached. Your provider console shows total spend, maybe broken out by API key or model. It won’t tell you that the sales team spent $1,700 on Claude this week, let alone what the work was. And the problem is growing. McKinsey found that 56% of… (via CloudZero) AI & GPU cost https://dev.to/rahul_pandya000/aws-lambda-90-minute-timeout-setup-cost-and-catches-2026-59i2 finops-radar:1ed8cc5e0a385ae4 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:12:48 GMT If you've built anything real on Lambda, you've seen this line in your logs at least once: Task timed out after 900.00 seconds And then you did what everyone does. You split the job into chunks, or chained a few functions together with Step Functions, or saved progress to DynamoDB so the next run could pick up where… (via DEV Community - finops tag) AWS https://finops.org/insights/ai-spend-budget-busters finops-radar:b81d4bb7d289c781 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:01:13 GMT (via FinOps Foundation) AI & GPU cost Governance & practice Quantify business value https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wz26f3/engineers_and_architects_whats_your_experience finops-radar:234c9d9ef804b854 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:09:04 GMT Hi everyone, We’re building a FinOps product, and I’d like to hear from engineers and architects about how cloud cost optimisation works in their organisations. We’ve put together a short survey that takes around 2 minutes . Your responses will help shape what we build. 👉 Take the survey I’ll share a summary of the… (via r/FinOps) https://finout.io/blog/top-18-kubernetes-cost-optimization-strategies-in-2026 finops-radar:f10d4c8ef428dc9c Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:11:53 GMT What Is Kubernetes Cost Optimization? Kubernetes cost optimization focuses on reducing the operational expenses associated with running workloads on Kubernetes clusters. Kubernetes is now standard production infrastructure: the CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey found that 82% of container users run Kubernetes in… (via Finout) Kubernetes Kubernetes & containers Optimize usage & cost https://finout.io/blog/ultimate-guide-to-finops-principles-phases-and-technology finops-radar:e4798e62785ed227 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:02:37 GMT FinOps is a cloud financial management model that helps finance, engineering, business, and technology teams collaborate on cloud investment decisions. (via Finout) Opinion & analysis https://medium.com/transcloud/building-an-automated-kill-switch-for-vertex-ai-how-to-stop-runaway-api-costs-aa1cf95a9500 finops-radar:ee49b21ca5b8e1f1 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:19:52 GMT Generative AI APIs offer incredible capabilities, but unmetered endpoints introduce a massive financial vulnerability: Denial-of-Wallet… Continue reading on Transcloud Labs » (via Medium - finops tag) Google Cloud AI & GPU cost Opinion & analysis https://medium.com/observability-applied/why-truewatch-cost-about-66-less-in-this-enterprise-model-f8e9e35f92ce finops-radar:cca85ee8696e0d39 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:44:39 GMT One anonymized enterprise model came out at USD 3,579 a month instead of USD 10,494. Here is where the difference came from, and what it… Continue reading on Observability, Applied » (via Medium - finops tag) Opinion & analysis https://dev.to/pits2022/the-12-kubectl-queries-we-run-before-every-cloud-cost-review-2g61 finops-radar:0afed6dc0de26b1e Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:27:35 GMT Originally published on the Professional IT Services blog . Twelve queries show what a Kubernetes cluster costs and where it wastes money: nodes and taints, requests and limits, real usage, top pods, QoS classes, idle requests, pods over their requests, volumes, orphans, leftovers, load balancers and restarts. They… (via DEV Community - finops tag) Kubernetes Kubernetes & containers Optimize usage & cost https://finout.io/blog/best-aws-cost-management-services-top-10-solutions-in-2026 finops-radar:27b48573e7660488 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:14:07 GMT Key Takeaways What they are: AWS cost management services are the native AWS tools and third-party platforms you use to see, allocate, budget, and reduce AWS spend. Where native tools stop: Native services such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Anomaly Detection, and AWS Cost Optimization Hub cover AWS… (via Finout) AWS Kubernetes SaaS & AI vendors AI & GPU cost Kubernetes & containers Tooling Governance & practice Understand usage & cost Quantify business value Optimize usage & cost https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wyuceb/leanmoth_analyze_aws_waste_patterns finops-radar:2063bc1dc8f9845b Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:18:40 GMT Hey everyone, I built a small tool called LeanMoth that analyzes your AWS Cost & Usage Report. It identifies waste patterns and suggests remediation steps to bring your AWS bill down. The good thing is it doesn't send any sensitive data to a server. It only relies on three columns — usageType, usageAmount, and… (via r/FinOps) AWS Optimize usage & cost https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wyu2ae/once_the_big_rocks_are_gone_where_is_the finops-radar:ae386112be6d92b5 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:02:14 GMT The usual work is done: commitments, rightsizing, and cleaning up idle resources. But the returns are starting to flatten. What I keep noticing now is a pile of smaller AI costs spread across teams. LLM API calls, experimental projects, embeddings jobs, dev/test usage. Each one looks too small to worry about, but… (via r/FinOps) AI & GPU cost Optimize usage & cost https://medium.com/@wjtkkhtj/29-of-your-cloud-bill-is-waste-start-with-the-graveyard-5e69e257e765 finops-radar:f1d6d8946197bfec Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:30:04 GMT You're paying rent on servers everyone forgot. Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) Optimize usage & cost https://cloudzero.com/blog/shipped-personal-settings finops-radar:1d0b06df6ff48f06 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:54:54 GMT Why this matters Most people who use CloudZero spend their time in one or two places. For some it’s AI Signals, and for others it’s Optimize or Anomalies. If Explorer isn’t one of those places, every sign-in starts with a click to get where you need to be. Dates and numbers are another friction. A date like 04/07… (via CloudZero) New feature Tooling Optimize usage & cost https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wyksh1/finops_en_la_nube_cómo_reducir_el_gasto_sin finops-radar:8fdec4a50c6ca9e0 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:25:57 GMT FinOps en la nube es la práctica de hacer visible, controlar y optimizar el gasto cloud, sumando a finanzas, tecnología y negocio en las mismas decisiones. No se trata solo de recortar: se trata de que cada gasto en la nube tenga un responsable y un motivo. El problema real La nube se cobra por uso, y eso es una… (via r/FinOps) https://dev.to/vlad_z_16b6320e21f32bee0d/an-18000-aws-bill-that-should-have-been-12000-4o15 finops-radar:b138fa771cf3470f Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:38:59 GMT The second account I want to talk about was a different kind of problem Not wasteful. Efficient, actually. A well-run engineering team who had done their homework. Good tagging. Reasonable instance sizes. Clean account structure Their bill was still too high and they couldn't figure out why $18,000 a month. For their… (via DEV Community - finops tag) AWS Tooling Understand usage & cost https://medium.com/@kartikanand_11915/agentic-finops-part-2-of-5-2f0c4477ccb3 finops-radar:eb52cfc76a90021a Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:51:13 GMT ## The Economics of an AI Workflow Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wydx21/who_actually_pays_for_microsoft_365_copilot_in finops-radar:d3803fc3f36e16cf Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:00:51 GMT submitted by /u/ChicagoBreezy73 [link] [comments] (via r/FinOps) https://medium.com/@florentcham/uber-burned-its-2026-ai-budget-in-4-months-heres-the-finops-playbook-every-team-needs-10779141994a finops-radar:27d38bc6021e83e8 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:35:42 GMT A practical guide to bringing cloud cost discipline to OpenAI and Anthropic API spend, and why I started building a tool for it. Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) SaaS & AI vendors Governance & practice Quantify business value https://medium.com/@kartikanand_11915/agentic-finops-part-1-of-5-9bff0f7b9319 finops-radar:a4a2f5d2fba554e6 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:57:01 GMT ## Token Cost Is Only the Beginning Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) AI & GPU cost https://lagadhirdivyesh.medium.com/cloud-cost-optimization-how-to-actually-cut-your-bill-712cbeb56dde finops-radar:696d7db8f16b5719 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:35:24 GMT Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) Opinion & analysis Optimize usage & cost https://finout.io/blog/best-finops-tools-for-managing-ai-costs-in-2026 finops-radar:4832dd3d9c4d6bc3 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:58:39 GMT What Are the Best FinOps Tools for Managing AI Costs? The best tools give finance and engineering one shared view of AI spend, then let you allocate it to the teams, features, and customers that actually drove it. Finout is an enterprise-grade FinOps platform built for the agentic era, with deep multi-provider… (via Finout) Kubernetes SaaS & AI vendors AI & GPU cost Kubernetes & containers Tooling Understand usage & cost https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wy48cb/data_lakehouse_with_agentic_ais_a_guide finops-radar:f7f5d3b22c0d1ecf Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:34:52 GMT submitted by /u/codingdecently [link] [comments] (via r/FinOps) Opinion & analysis https://finout.io/blog/finout-vs-vantage-which-platform-is-right-for-your-team finops-radar:bdd7ed96d61bf23a Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:23:05 GMT Finout vs Vantage is a closer comparison than a feature checklist suggests. Both platforms offer virtual tagging, AI provider integrations, an AI assistant, and an MCP server, which means the checklist alone won't settle the decision. The difference shows up in how each platform builds and maintains allocation as… (via Finout) Kubernetes Kubernetes & containers Tooling Governance & practice Understand usage & cost Manage the FinOps practice https://finout.io/blog/ai-model-cost-breakdowns-the-complete-2026-comparison-guide finops-radar:0da954008c085d6a Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:16:26 GMT AI model costs look simple on the surface. ARK Invest’s analysis of Artificial Analysis benchmark data found inference costs for capable models declining 95% at an annual rate, yet the bill keeps growing. Between input tokens, output tokens, cached pricing, fine-tuning fees, and the infrastructure to run it all, the… (via Finout) Opinion & analysis Quantify business value https://dev.to/devopsdaily/knowing-what-your-ai-feature-costs-before-finance-does-303e finops-radar:b3a3d01b0048486f Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The invoice for your model provider arrives with one line per model. Finance reads it and asks a fair question: which feature spent that? If three features share one API key, the invoice cannot tell you, and neither can the provider dashboard. You find out the hard way, when one of them grows. We wanted to know how… (via DEV Community - finops tag) Tooling Understand usage & cost https://finout.io/blog/llm-token-cost-by-model-2026-pricing-data-and-optimization-tips finops-radar:027b86b5fad7b27d Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:39:15 GMT LLM token costs range from about $0.10 to $10 per million input tokens and up to $50 per million output tokens. Output tokens typically cost three to eight times more than input tokens, with five times the most common ratio. (via Finout) AI & GPU cost Opinion & analysis Optimize usage & cost https://finout.io/blog/cloud-cost-allocation-basics-benefits-and-types finops-radar:c32e7ae48b6023f6 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:17:25 GMT Key Takeaways Cloud cost allocation is the process of attributing cloud, Kubernetes, SaaS, and AI spend to the teams, products, or business units that drive it. There are five core allocation types: direct, proportional, even-split, weighted, and virtual (rules-based) allocation. Showback reports costs back to teams… (via Finout) Kubernetes SaaS & AI vendors AI & GPU cost Kubernetes & containers Tooling Governance & practice Opinion & analysis Understand usage & cost Quantify business value Manage the FinOps practice https://finout.io/blog/kubernetes-cost-monitoring finops-radar:9792351d4ee6330f Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:09:51 GMT Cost monitoring in Kubernetes tracks resources like CPU, memory, and storage used by applications in Kubernetes clusters to manage expenses. (via Finout) Kubernetes Kubernetes & containers Optimize usage & cost https://finout.io/blog/the-best-cloud-cost-allocation-methods-explained finops-radar:b215692d1bf30831 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:03:51 GMT Quick Summary Cloud cost allocation assigns every dollar of cloud spend to the team, product, or customer that generated it. The five core methods are resource tagging, account-based allocation, shared cost allocation, virtual tags, and business mapping. Shared costs — resources used by multiple teams — require… (via Finout) AI & GPU cost Tooling Opinion & analysis Understand usage & cost https://idlefy.medium.com/the-hidden-cost-of-mcp-more-context-more-tokens-ada2a84a2e39 finops-radar:329a5b02fdc5d4d7 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:01:03 GMT We use AI agents to optimize cloud spending. Then we give them a very expensive bag of context. Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) Optimize usage & cost https://medium.com/@taniafedirko/tokens-are-now-the-atomic-unit-of-ai-spend-nobody-allocates-atoms-e9dc4d0ff7ed finops-radar:a24315970075879d Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:01:01 GMT The FinOps community spent June setting out how AI should be billed. The harder question for your allocation model is what the tokens were… Continue reading on Medium » (via Medium - finops tag) AI & GPU cost Understand usage & cost https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wy1u3d/saas_project_for_cost_tracking_in_construction finops-radar:4b6b24624ec2a28c Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:55:33 GMT Hi. I started building a tool for cost tracking projects myself. Now it has become full stack cost management. What do you think? It is mainly for b2b but could be used for private projects as well. Also I really like to know from you guys: it is supposed to work for the DACH market. Would it be useful for other… (via r/FinOps) SaaS & AI vendors Tooling https://dev.to/vlad_z_16b6320e21f32bee0d/the-cloudwatch-fix-was-the-easy-part-9300-was-still-missing-4o7b finops-radar:9d9e2938f5b6d87d Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:57:03 GMT After the CloudWatch fix we kept going $11,400 a month. $340 on CloudWatch now. $9,300 still unaccounted for RDS was next. $2,800 a month across four database instances I looked at the instance types first. All four were db.r5.2xlarge. 8 vCPUs, 64GB memory each Then I looked at the utilization metrics. Average CPU… (via DEV Community - finops tag) AWS https://reddit.com/r/FinOps/comments/1wx248c/built_an_opensource_check_that_comments_a finops-radar:b8c8b727023d281c Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:23:55 GMT I wanted to see what a change would cost before merging it, not on next month's bill, and across more than one cloud. So I built this it reads terraform show -json , estimates the monthly cost and carbon of what's being created/destroyed (Azure, AWS, Databricks), and posts it as a PR comment that can fail CI. It's… (via r/FinOps) AWS Azure SaaS & AI vendors Multi-cloud https://dev.to/vlad_z_16b6320e21f32bee0d/an-11400-aws-bill-and-cloudwatch-logs-was-2100-of-it-37aj finops-radar:f79490886477681d Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:17:24 GMT I got access to the account on a Tuesday morning The founder had sent over credentials the night before with a message that said roughly: I think we're overpaying but I don't know where Total monthly spend: $11,400 Their product had about 800 active users. For 800 users that number felt wrong immediately First 15… (via DEV Community - finops tag) AWS Governance & practice Manage the FinOps practice