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How AI Agents Are Transforming the FinOps World

What if your FinOps team could delegate repetitive cost optimization tasks to AI agents that work 24/7 across all your cloud providers?

Pelanor's Composer lets you create custom agents using natural language that automatically hunt down waste, enforce budgets, and alert the right people, turning multi-cloud chaos into orchestrated efficiency.

See how forward-thinking teams are using AI-powered FinOps to transform cost management into a competitive advantage.

LEADERSHIP
Optimize Cloud Costs with C-Suite Leadership Insight

Companies with top executives leading cloud cost efforts see much better results. They cut costs three times more effectively than teams working alone. While regular IT teams might save 10-15% on cloud bills, executive-led programs typically slash 30-40% of costs.

When CEOs and other top leaders get involved, things move faster. Projects that normally take 12-18 months can finish in just 6-9 months. Companies often see their innovation budgets grow by 25-35% after successful optimization.

The best approach follows four clear steps. First, leaders create a vision and get everyone on board. Second, they build teams that work across different departments. Third, they change company culture to make everyone think about costs. Finally, they watch progress closely and make adjustments when needed.

Companies need strong leadership commitment, teams that work together, decisions based on real data, and a culture that values smart spending. The payoff can be huge - many organizations see returns of 300-500% within the first year.

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LEADERSHIP
Key FinOps KPIs for C-Suite Success

Most FinOps teams get stuck tracking technical metrics that don't speak the language of business leaders.

While engineers focus on server usage and cost breakdowns, executives think about profit margins and customer value. This gap creates a problem when FinOps teams try to get support for their cloud cost management efforts.

The solution is simple: translate cloud metrics into business terms that matter to each leader.

CEO Focus: Cloud Cost per Customer

CFO Focus: Cloud Spend as Percentage of Revenue

CTO Focus: Resource Usage Efficiency

CPO Focus: Cloud Cost per Feature

The key is matching the metric to how each person thinks about success in their role.

When FinOps teams speak the same language as business leaders, they get more support for cost optimization efforts.

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BIGQUERY
Avoid BigQuery Cost Trap: Optimize Partitioning

When Raman Shaliamekh's team moved their analytics from PostgreSQL to BigQuery, they thought they did everything right. They set up proper partitioning and clustering on their time-series data. But their costs stayed high, and they couldn't figure out why.

Here's what happened: When filtering data by date, there are three common ways to extract the date from a datetime column:

• DATE(dt)

• CAST(dt AS DATE)

• EXTRACT(DATE FROM dt)

All three should work the same way, right? Wrong.

In a test with a 1GB table partitioned by a DATETIME column, two of these functions worked perfectly and only scanned 85MB of data. But CAST(dt AS DATE) scanned the entire 1GB table - that's 12 times more data processed.

For a 200GB table, this difference could cost over $1 per query. Run hundreds of these queries daily, and you're looking at serious money.

The weird part is that this only happens with DATETIME columns. When the same test was run on TIMESTAMP columns, all three functions worked correctly and pruned partitions properly.

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FINOPS EVENTS
AI in FinOps: Automating Cost Analysis with MCP

Use the Most Powerful AI Protocol for Your FinOps Practice

Learn how to use natural language to explore your organization’s cloud costs via MCP clients, like Claude, Cursor, and others. All explained in 1 Hour.

Hosted by industry leaders Victor Garcia (Founder, FinOps Weekly), Ben Schaechter (CEO & Co-Founder, Vantage). Seats for this live event are limited.

17th July - 6:00 PM CEST / 12 PM EST

CLOUD PROVIDERS
Everyone Is On Holiday, Read Past Week

Nobody is working this week at the CSPs on FinOps. Some GPU Instances got RIs (P5) You can still read what happened last week.

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AWS
Automate Alerts for AWS Savings Plans Utilization

AWS has created a solution to help companies watch their Savings Plans automatically. The system uses two parts working together across different AWS accounts for better security. Here's how it works:

The main account holds all the Savings Plans data. A second account runs the monitoring system that checks this data regularly. The monitoring system looks at all Savings Plans bought in the last seven days within the current month. It measures how much each plan gets used compared to what was promised.

When the system finds plans that aren't being used enough, it sends email alerts to the finance team. The email alerts help teams make quick decisions about returning unused plans before the seven-day window closes.

Teams can also adjust the sensitivity of alerts by setting their own usage thresholds. If a Savings Plan falls below this level, the system triggers a warning.

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📺️ VIDEO
Expert Masterclass: FOCUS Success Case in Azure

In this Masterclass, we teach you how to designe an event-driven architecture based on Azure Functions that processes billing information and divides costs using a combination of general rules and specific allocations that can be managed and pre-set in advance. Using FOCUS and Power BI

🎖️ MENTION OF HONOUR
What Does Value Really Mean?

Larry Advey, FinOps Lead at Twilio, breaks down what "value" really means in simple terms. He starts with the basic question we all ask: Is this thing worth my money and time?

But value goes deeper than just dollars and hours. It can mean importance in general life, monetary worth in business, numbers in math, personal beliefs we hold dear, or data in computer systems. In the world of FinOps, value combines all these meanings:

Money and Smart Spending: It's about getting the most bang for your buck and using resources wisely, not wastefully.

Cutting Unnecessary Costs: Finding ways to spend less while getting the same or better results.

Making Smart Choices: Using financial data to make decisions that help businesses grow and make more money.

Measuring Success: Comparing what you spend against what you achieve to spot good opportunities and avoid risks.

Value in FinOps isn't just about spending less money - it's about making every dollar work harder for your business goals.

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P.S. Cloud Efficiency Hub has been released and works like a giant library of cloud waste problems. Great community effort driver by Taylor, it covers major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, Databricks, and Snowflake.

Professional Spotlight
Michiel van Oudheusden

Azure FinOps Mastery

It was a pleasure to have Michiel on the Podcast. Creator of the Azure Cost CLI and writer of Azure Finops Newsletter, he’s been a great contributor to the FinOps community and a supporter of FinOps Weekly

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Last Chance to our Summer Master in FinOps

Go from confusing spreadsheets and messy tags to perfect cost allocation. Our live, hands-on cohort course gives you the system and resources to implement a tagging and naming strategy that scales across your entire organization (AWS, GCP & Azure).

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In this 6-week Master, you will:

• Design a Future-Proof Tagging Policy: Learn to create a tagging strategy that guarantees you can allocate your cloud spend.

• Automate your entire tagging workflow using Infrastructure as Code policies that provide all the benefits of code.

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• Implement Done-for-You enterprise-grade governance that ensures accurate visibility into spend and identify optimization opportunities.

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