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The 2026 FinOps landscape isn’t just bigger, it’s more complex.

98% of teams now manage AI spend. 90% manage SaaS. 78% report to the CTO/CIO. This isn't scope creep, it’s the evolution of cloud accountability.

On April 15, join FinOps practitioners and cloud leaders at FinOps Forward 2026, a virtual summit focused on how high‑performing teams are adapting their operating models.

You’ll hear:

→ Analysts from IDC + FinOps Foundation analysts decode State of Cloud and State of FinOps 2026 data

→ Champion practitioners share real‑world approaches to AI governance, SaaS optimization, and cross‑team alignment

→ Live Q&A with your peers

If you’re responsible for turning cloud spend data into action, this is where the FinOps community pressure‑tests strategy for 2026.

Free registration, on-demand replay included.

The 2025 and 2026 State of FinOps reports reveal a troubling pattern: FinOps didn't become more efficient over the past year.

In 2025, about 63% of teams managed AI spending. By 2026, that number jumped to 98%. That's an explosion of new work landing on already busy teams. But AI is just part of the problem. FinOps teams are now responsible for managing spending across multiple areas:

Each area comes with different pricing models, different stakeholders, and different ways to optimize. What used to be one job is now four or five jobs stacked on top of each other. But now they're also expected to fund new AI projects through the savings they find. So the workload keeps stacking up with nothing getting removed.

The role itself is changing too. Now teams are expected to influence spending decisions before they happen, connect costs to business value, and enable investment choices across the company. That means more stakeholders, more decisions, and more accountability, all requiring significantly more work.

The path forward requires less manual work and more automation, better integration across different spending areas, and the ability to act on cost data consistently at scale.

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Graviton4 (C8gn) and I7ie instances expanded to more regions, offering up to 30-40% better price-performance for ARM-based and storage-intensive workloads.

CUDOS Dashboard v5.7.3 improves discount prioritization and tag-based filtering for faster analysis.

EC2 Fleet now supports interruptible Capacity Reservations to utilize spare capacity.

Aurora PostgreSQL serverless joined the Free Tier, significantly lowering the cost of dev/test prototypes.

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Cloud Monitoring telemetry quotas are now regional and byte/request-based.

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Standard cloud optimizations: reserved instances and basic rightsizing, are no longer enough. With the rapid rise of AI infrastructure and GPUs, cloud spend is outpacing traditional playbooks.

Join us to discover how leading teams are moving from reaction to prevention

📅​ Date: April 16th
🕗​ Time: 11:00 AM EST / 17:00 CEST
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In this ultimate FinOps guide for beginners, we’re joined by Donal Burke to show you exactly how to transition from a traditional finance or accounting role into the tech ecosystem.

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One team followed that advice blindly. What they missed? The 4x Friday evening spike. That simple downsize turned a quiet weekend into a 90-minute outage and a massive incident report.

Cloud optimization should consider risk management. Before you hit "resize," run this 9-point pre-flight checklist.

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​Join us at the heart of Hawthorne as we kick off our first-ever LA FinOps Weekly Meetup at the lively Common Space Brewery!

Hosted by FinOps Weekly Regional Leader Diana Molski, this event is your chance to dive into the world of FinOps while enjoying good company and great brews.

​We promise an evening of engaging conversations and a relaxed vibe.

First beer on us, limited slots!

📅​ Date: April 9, 2026
🕗​ Time: 5:00pm PT
📍 Common Space Brewery | Hawthorne, California​

Most teams treat cloud costs as a surprise that arrives at the end of the month. But by the time you see the bill, your architectural choices are already locked in. To truly control spend, you have to build cost into your system from day one.

Instead of fixing costs later, start treating efficiency as a primary technical requirement, just like performance or security. Does your system scale linearly? Does it have expensive spikes? Understanding how your system behaves financially helps you design better guardrails.

You wouldn’t design a car and check its fuel efficiency only after it’s built. The same logic applies to the cloud. When developers, architects, and leaders treat cost as a design constraint, better decisions happen naturally.

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A FinOps team can check every box on a maturity model and still fail. Why? Because most models measure progress from the inside out, better reporting, better tools, better allocation, but they often fail to translate that data into executive-level strategy.

While FinOps teams focus on utilization rates and commitment coverage, leadership is asking different questions. What value does this technology create? What risks are we taking on? What trade-offs are we making? What decisions become easier because FinOps exists?

According to Frank Contrepois, true maturity is about building a two-way bridge: Top-Down: Turning strategic intent into actionable engineering tasks & Bottom-Up: Turning cloud spend into a readable format that leadership can trust to govern.

If your FinOps practice doesn't help executives act with confidence, your maturity score doesn't matter. Great article by Frank.

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