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FinOps for AI: Why Tagging Breaks Down (and What Comes Next)
By Josh PalmerJul 8, 20269 min read

FinOps for AI: Why Tagging Breaks Down (and What Comes Next)

FinOps for AI extends cloud cost discipline to AI workloads, but tags can't reach shared GPUs, LLM gateways, or agentic spend.

DoiT Launches Attribute™: AI Tokenomics Without Tags, SDKs, or Code Changes
By Kurt HeinemannJul 7, 20263 min read

DoiT Launches Attribute™: AI Tokenomics Without Tags, SDKs, or Code Changes

DoiT launches Attribute™, a kernel-level eBPF sensor that attributes AI token, GPU, and model API spend to specific customers, features, and agents in 15 minutes—no SDKs or tagging required.

Why We’re Launching Attribute™
By Vadim SoloveyJul 7, 20266 min read

Why We’re Launching Attribute™

AI infrastructure breaks the tagging and instrumentation models that cloud FinOps relied on. Attribute™ takes a kernel-level, eBPF-based approach to map every token and GPU cycle to the customer, team, or feature responsible.

Producing Reports that Finance Trusts
By Devorah KlartagJul 6, 20267 min read

Producing Reports that Finance Trusts

Finance rejects cost reports built on stale rules and incomplete tags. Runtime attribution with an eBPF sensor traces every cost to observed behavior, producing numbers you can defend.

Underutilised Reservations Are Silent Cost Leaks
By Satyam GuptaJul 6, 20265 min read

Underutilised Reservations Are Silent Cost Leaks

Idle AWS Reservations silently drain budgets across EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and more. See how a no-code CloudFlow template surfaces underused commitments before waste compounds.

AI cost attribution: why tagging can't answer the CFO's question
Jul 5, 20266 min read

AI cost attribution: why tagging can't answer the CFO's question

AI spend has no native unit for tags to attach to. Here's why FinOps teams need traffic-level attribution to answer per-customer and per-feature cost questions.

Know Before You Provision: GCP Spot VM Availability Signals
By Chimbu ChinnaduraiJul 2, 20266 min read

Know Before You Provision: GCP Spot VM Availability Signals

GCP's new real-time availability signals for Spot VMs reveal obtainability scores and estimated uptime before you provision — ending the guesswork around zone selection and preemption risk.

The 6 FinOps Principles Explained (and How to Apply Them)
By Josh PalmerJul 1, 202614 min read

The 6 FinOps Principles Explained (and How to Apply Them)

Most teams can recite the six FinOps principles but struggle to operationalize them. Here's what each principle means in practice and how to turn them into measurable outcomes.

Cloud Cost Optimization Metrics That Actually Matter
By Josh PalmerJul 1, 202613 min read

Cloud Cost Optimization Metrics That Actually Matter

Learn which cloud cost optimization metrics FinOps teams should track, organized by maturity stage, with a four-category framework and common pitfalls to avoid.

BigQuery Cost Optimization: How to Cut Spend Without Hurting Performance
By Josh PalmerJun 30, 202621 min read

BigQuery Cost Optimization: How to Cut Spend Without Hurting Performance

BigQuery's pricing model changed in 2023, making most older cost guides obsolete. Here's how Editions, autoscaling slots, and modern tactics reshape optimization in 2026.

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GCP Cost Optimization Tools: A Buyer's Guide
By Josh PalmerJun 30, 202613 min read

GCP Cost Optimization Tools: A Buyer's Guide

Compare the best GCP cost optimization tools for FinOps teams. See how DoiT, Cloudability, CloudHealth, and CAST AI handle BigQuery, GKE, and CUD coverage.

Azure Cost Management Tools Compared: A Buyer's Guide
By Josh PalmerJun 29, 202618 min read

Azure Cost Management Tools Compared: A Buyer's Guide

Compare the top Azure cost management tools. See which platforms go beyond dashboards to automate reservations, AKS rightsizing, and multi-cloud.