How CFOs are governing cloud costs in 2026

We asked CFOs how they are managing cloud cost investments in 2026 and here’s what we found:

💸 88% say their cloud spend is rising
🗑️ 69% say between 10-30% of their cloud spend is wasted

Get the report: https://bit.ly/4bRoeYC

#CloudCosts

Your AI works at 1k users. At 100k it bankrupts you. That’s expensively quadratic.
#AI #GenAI #CloudCosts #StartupTech
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Cloud bills exploding? It's more than just AI. Uncover the hidden complexities and unexpected costs silently draining your budget. Time to rethink your cloud strategy.

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#cloudcomputing #cloudcosts #ai

CloudZero With CloudZero you get insights about your applications and systems, helping you manage operations at a scale that you’ve never had before. Our platform provides you with insights about every piece of your system, including the real cost of resources, resource utilization, reserved capacity and cost center efficiency.

The latest update for #CloudZero includes "#AWS Direct Connect Pricing: A Complete Guide" and "How Finance Leaders Can Use #AI To Stay On Top Of #CloudCosts".

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Egress Fees Are a Tax on Bad Architecture » CloudSee Drive AWS S3 egress fees aren’t a pricing bug. Tthey’re a design problem. Learn how you can cut your egress costs by 90% or more.

That growing line on your AWS bill labeled "data transfer"? Not a mistake...it's a design flaw.

S3 egress without CloudFront, NAT Gateway routing, cross-region reads. Fast fixes, big savings.

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#AWS #AmazonS3 #FinOps #CloudCosts

Model Denial of Service Turns Your Cloud Bill Into a Weapon Model denial of service—also known as Denial of Wallet—lets attackers keep AI services online while rapidly draining cloud budgets by forcing excessive token consumption. Real-world LLMjacking incidents on services like AWS Bedrock and Google Gemini show six-figure bills in days, so teams must deploy cost-aware rate limiting, hard spending caps, billing anomaly alerts, and stronger credential protection. #LLMjacking #AWSBedrock

Model denial of service attacks exploit per-token billing to inflate AI cloud costs without downtime, using tactics like context flooding and recursive prompts. Major cases hit six-figure bills on AWS Bedrock. #LLMjacking #CloudCosts #USA

AI developers are about to burn tons of money!!

Read this. Summarized by me, reference:Cloudsyntrix.com

#AIdevelopers #Artificialintelligence #Losingmoney #cloudcosts

Total Economic Impact™ Study: 5 Ways Optimizing Java Runtime Performance Delivered 129% ROI In a new study commissioned by Azul, Forrester found that customers saved $5.7M over three years with a payback period of less than 6 months.

Customers saved $5.7M over 3 years with a <6‑month payback by using Azul Prime, Azul's high-performance Java platform, according to the latest #ForresterTEI study. Rebekah Dumouchelle breaks down where the savings come from in this blog: https://bit.ly/4lqU41a

#Java #AzulPrime #CloudCosts

☁️ Scaling fast but cloud bills rising faster? Learn how to manage cloud waste and keep costs under control as your business grows.

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#CloudCosts #ITStrategy #NovoIT

Both SquaredUp and Grafana have data sources for Azure - but which of these tools is the best fit for your use case.

Our colleague Sameer Mhaisekar gives you the lowdown in this article on the SquaredUp blog:

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#azure #cloudcomputing #cloudcosts #dashboards

1 week to go! Two super practical talks + networking
🎤 Matt Johnson: When things go wrong: managing cloud costs
🎤 @codek1.bsky.social (Dan Keeley): Predictable data engineering on AWS

Grab your spot:
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#AWS #AWSCommunity #FinOps #CloudCosts #DataEngineering #DevOps

Large enterprises lose 8,000+ hours DAILY to CI cold starts.

📉 Reclaim 60% of wasted compute costs with #Develocity Universal Cache. 🏛️

Scale smarter: https://gradle.com/develocity/product/universal-cache/

#PlatformEngineering #CloudCosts #AI

Coroot Metrics, logs, traces, continuous profiling, and SLO-based alerting, supercharged with predefined dashboards and inspections.

The latest update for #Coroot includes "Let's make alerting great again" and "How to Reduce Your #CloudCosts with Coroot".

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Infracost shows exact cloud costs for Terraform changes before they hit production - right in your pull requests. No more surprise AWS bills.

🔗 https://github.com/infracost/infracost

#Terraform #FinOps #CloudCosts

Stop overpaying in the cloud.
“You only pay for what you use” sounds great, but many workloads are heavily overprovisioned. That is wasted budget. Smart use of Reserved Instances or Savings Plans cuts costs without hurting performance.
#FinOps #CloudOptimization #CloudCosts #Azure #GoogleCloud

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A Controversial Takeaway:
If cloud vendors really cared about your mission, they’d let you leave without a ransom. Non-profits aren’t tech labs. Your impact dies when you fund Azure’s ski trips instead of village networks.

#CloudCosts #NonProfitTech #TechMyths #OnPremise #VendorLockIn […]

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Ask Them This:
Why do consultants sell cost-cutting that requires paying extra for emergencies? If sharing resources saves money, why are cloud CEOs buying yachts while your co-op lays off cheesemongers?

#Cooperatives #CloudCosts #TechConsultants #CoopHistory #EconomicJustice #SelfHosted […]

How Azure Picks a Discount (and Why Your Bill Looks Confusing) When I wrote Azure Savings Plans, Finally Explained with Math That Actually Makes Sense, I was very focused on solving one specific problem. People were looking at Savings Plans and feeling like they ...

Azure doesn’t stack discounts.
It chooses one per hour.
Reserved Instances first, then Savings Plans, then pay-as-you-go. That’s why bills feel confusing.

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#Azure #CloudCosts

Azure Savings Plans, finally explained with math that actually makes sense Math IS hard and mathing isn't my strong suit. I am writing this blog because I STILL get tripped up at times with Savings Plans. You guessed it...this becomes a cheat sheet for ME in the future, too!...

Azure Savings Plans aren’t confusing because you’re bad at math. They’re confusing because they’re explained badly.

Once you see them as pricing substitution instead of a discount, everything clicks.

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#Azure #SavingsPlans #CloudCosts

I Have Won But At What Cost

I Have Won But At What Cost

#Ai #aws #Cloudcosts #Llm #machinelearning

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Cloud services often push distributed computing, potentially leading to vendor lock-in and obscured costs. Users must be critical of how cloud providers promote solutions, ensuring they don't overspend on resources that simpler setups could manage. #CloudCosts 4/6

💸 Paying for cloud servers you don’t use? Learn 3 simple Power Automate workflows that automatically shut down waste and cut costs.

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#PowerAutomate #CloudCosts #NovoIT

Chef's good news: FinOps is now recognized as important as DevOps and SecOps. Cloud optimization is the #1 business priority.

You don't need expensive tools to start. You need the right recipes.

Start cooking at cloudcostchefs.com

#FinOps #CloudCosts #CloudCostChefs

CloudZero With CloudZero you get insights about your applications and systems, helping you manage operations at a scale that you’ve never had before. Our platform provides you with insights about every piece of your system, including the real cost of resources, resource utilization, reserved capacity and cost center efficiency.

The latest update for #CloudZero includes "Mature Companies Don't Care About #CloudCosts" and "Amazon ECR Unpacked: How It Works And Why It Matters".

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💰 Cloud bills making you cry?
Cut dev infrastructure costs by 87% with one change:
Traditional cloud: $4,200/month
nobgp MCP: $500/month

Here's the breakdown 👇
#DevOps #CloudCosts #nobgp

💡 Perfect for batch inference, model fine-tuning, and HPC. The secret recipe? Trading start-time flexibility for massive savings.

🍲 Dive into the full recipe at cloudcostchefs.com
#FinOps #CloudCosts #GCP #CloudCostChefs

Cost isn't just infrastructure. Self-hosting can save direct money but demands significant time and specialized expertise, which is a hidden overhead. Managed services are pricier but offer convenience, potentially reducing staff needs. #CloudCosts 3/5

Cloud Cost Optimization: Reduce IT Spend Without Sacrificing Performance Discover smart cloud cost optimization strategies enterprises use to cut IT spend, improve efficiency, and maintain high performance without compromise.

Cloud Cost Optimization: Smart Strategies Enterprises Use to Reduce IT Spend Without Sacrificing Performance

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#CloudOptimization #CloudComputing #CloudCostOptimization #CloudManagement #CloudCosts #CloudStrategy #ECSBiztech #ECS