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Top 18 Kubernetes Cost Optimization Strategies in 2026

What Is Kubernetes Cost Optimization? Kubernetes cost optimization focuses on reducing the operational ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Oct 6, 2026 16 min

Ultimate Guide to FinOps: Principles, Phases, and Technology

FinOps is a cloud financial management model that helps finance, engineering, business, and technology teams ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Oct 6, 2026 22 min

New From Finout: Kubernetes Cost Allocation For Red Hat OpenShift on AWS and Azure

Finout now delivers Kubernetes cost allocation for managed Red Hat OpenShift clusters- on ROSA (Red Hat ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Sep 29, 2026 4 min

The Discount You Now Pay For: Prompt Caching Just Became a FinOps Problem

Azure OpenAI is about to start charging you for the thing you did to save money.

AL Asaf Liveanu

Sep 9, 2026 7 min

Reserved Instances Aren't Being Killed. They're Being Disassembled.

Part three. The first piece was RIP RIs, where I argued AWS was quietly killing Reserved Instances. The ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Aug 11, 2026 7 min

New From Finout: How We Use Billy to Validate and Investigate Waste

Every FinOps platform can hand you a rightsizing recommendation. The hard part has never been getting the ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Aug 10, 2026 5 min

State of FinOps 2026 Report: Key Trends, Insights, and What Comes Next

All statistics in this post are sourced from the FinOps Foundation's State of FinOps 2026 — the sixth annual ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Aug 2, 2026 11 min

Beyond GPUs and API Calls: Understanding the True Cost of AI Initiatives

If you're building with AI, the first costs you notice are the obvious ones—GPU hours, cloud infrastructure, ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jul 9, 2026 5 min

Anthropic Keeps Signaling Where AI Cost Governance Needs to Go. It's Not All the Way There Yet

On July 2, Anthropic shipped a release that got a fraction of the attention a new model gets and deserves ten ...

AL Asaf Liveanu

Jul 8, 2026 6 min