Welcome to your monthly cloud economics pulse check, in which we analyze cloud and AI spend across different dimensions including provider, service, and other categories.
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Welcome to your monthly cloud economics pulse check, in which we analyze cloud and AI spend across different dimensions including provider, service, and other categories.
During a cloud outage, If you can’t quickly answer: “Which services are down? What’s still running? What’s costing us cash right now?” you might already be behind.
On the FinOps Weekly podcast, CloudZero CTO Erik Peterson dismantled conventional AI cost wisdom, warning of “zombie AI experiments,” invisible cost icebergs, and the end of old FinOps thinking.
At KubeCon Atlanta, it became clear that the cloud-native world is evolving — from simply cutting spend to actively engineering business value. CloudZero CTO Erik Peterson shares eight powerful insights from the floor with one key takeaway: optimization is no longer the goal — value is.
February 12, 2025
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