AWS API Gateway Pricing Simplified: A 2026 Guide For Cost Savings

API Gateway pricing isn’t expensive. Unmanaged API traffic is. Learn what drives costs and how to keep API spend under control.

How Kubernetes Node Affinity Works (And Why It Matters for K8s Cost Control)

Node affinity is the most common (and the most misunderstood) type of Kubernetes affinity — and it works alongside mechanisms like taints and tolerations to give teams precise control over pod placement. Here's why it matters and how to avoid the most common mistakes.

Top Cloud Cost News From December 2025

Don’t miss this year-end recap of the biggest cloud cost news headlines from December 2025.

Mature Companies Don’t Care About Cloud Costs

Instead of blindly cutting costs, here’s how you can use unit metrics to strategically achieve positive business outcomes.

Google Cloud Compute Engine Pricing Guide

Is the Google Compute Engine free? This guide explores how the Compute Engine pricing really works.

Cloud Efficiency Rate: A Clear Way To Measure Cloud Business Value

Empower your engineering org to answer the question: When we spend a dollar in the cloud, how much do we get back?

Real-Time Anomaly Detection For Cloud Cost Monitoring: Why It’s The Future (And How It Works)

Real-time anomaly detection allows teams to identify abnormal cloud cost behavior within minutes, while decisions are still reversible. Using real-time anomaly detection, we surfaced more than 5,500 cost issues and captured over $20 billion in anomalous cloud spend. Here’s how this approach works, why it outperforms delayed cost alerts, and how you can apply it yourself.

FinOps for AI: What It Is And Why AI Changes Cloud Cost Management

The more success you have with AI, the more it costs. And without a working FinOps for AI approach in place, that spend grows faster than your team can explain it (or justify it).

‘I Don’t Believe In Cost Optimization’: Caligo’s Erik Norman On FinOps Values, Cultures, And Myths

FinOps thought leader Erik Norman joins the FinOps In Full Bloom podcast to share provocative insights on tagging, tech culture, communication failures, and what it really means to optimize for value.

The AI Cost Crisis: ‘AI Cost Sprawl’ Is Crashing Your Innovation (AI Cost Sprawl Explained + How To Fix It)

Here is your practical, bookmarkable playbook for taming AI cost sprawl and building a smarter, more predictable, and scalable approach to AI cost management.