Agentic AI lacks cost control planes, driving a shift from token maxing to value maxing.
“people are proud to call themselves token billionaires”
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10 tracked signals on finops.
nOps cut FinOps agent delivery time 75% by migrating from LangChain to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
“We were attempting to build advanced AI capabilities on top of infrastructure that wasn't designed for analytics-driven agents, which made iteration slow, complex, and prone to inaccuracies.”
AWS now offers per-IAM-principal cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock via Athena and CUDOS dashboards
“you can typically track usage at the granularity you want for any Bedrock-powered service or application, whether third-party tools like Claude Code or Codex or your own custom builds”
BMW Group's CLEA system runs daily anomaly detection across 14,000 cloud accounts for ~$50/month in compute.
“But a dashboard shows what already happened, and only when someone opens it.”
Databricks launches Governance Hub for intelligent account-level cost and governance visibility.
AWS show discusses three AWS agents for FinOps strategy and when to use each for cost optimization.
“unless you've been living under a rock for the last like two or three years, you're probably aware that we have something called AI or generative AI”
AWS announces public preview of its FinOps Agent for proactive cloud cost optimization.
“we were there to celebrate the release and public preview of AWS PinOps Agent”
Claro Brasil built a self-service cloud portal on AWS Outposts, cutting costs over 40%.
“with the Claro portal, our customers are having a 30% of efficiency in their operations and more than 40% cost reduction”
AWS webinar previews new Bedrock cost allocation features and CUR columns for tracking generative AI spend.
“We are excited to talk about some new features that have come out. How to look at your spend using the cur and these new columns”
Azure launches flexible spend-based savings plans for database cost optimization
“It's a flexible spend-based commitment that gives you meaningful discounts across eligible Azure database services without locking you into a specific service, region, or configuration.”