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Azure auto-enrolled PostgreSQL 11, 12 and 13 servers in extended support on 1 August 2026 and bills from 1 September at $0.07 to $0.161 per vCore-hour. The upgrade escape hatch is narrower than it looks.
The 20 August 2026 Browser Run changelog raised the Workers Paid concurrency default from 120 to 200 browsers. The pricing page, last updated 21 April 2026, still includes 10 at $2.00 each.
AWS Glue 6.0 went generally available on 21 August 2026 with a 30% price reduction. The cut is version-gated, several meters are excluded, and Iceberg v3 tables cannot be read by Athena SQL.
MSK shipped cluster-level custom domain names on 17 August 2026 at no extra charge. The docs add what the announcement omits: every new broker needs its own NLB listener and DNS record.
Vercel started metering Deployment Storage and Functions Storage at $0.10 per GB-month on 21 August 2026. The Pro retention default keeps production deployments for one year, and nobody set it.
AWS says there is no additional cost to generate a SageMaker inference recommendation. Its own EAGLE documentation shows optimization jobs running on training instances for up to 120 hours across ten nodes.
AWS's remaining performance obligations jumped to $496B in Q2 2026 and much of 2027 capacity is already reserved. Here is what the backlog means for your cloud bill and a sourced FinOps playbook for choosing Savings
On July 1, 2026 Azure ended Reserved VM Instance purchases and renewals for 18 legacy VM series. Existing reservations run to term, then revert to pay-as-you-go, erasing up to 72% savings. Your options: savings plan
A senior engineer's 2026 comparison of Neon and Supabase: scale-to-zero economics, instant branching, built-in auth, real pricing in dollars, and which serverless Postgres fits your SaaS backend.
On June 8, 2026 AWS added target coverage analysis to the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer. Here is how to pick a coverage percentage, run the analysis, and size a commitment without paying for unused capacity.
On July 21, 2026 AWS split Amazon SES into three plans, Essentials, Pro and Enterprise, while keeping a-la-carte pricing. The plans are not cheaper per email, so the real decision is tooling, not send price.
AWS reduced ECS Managed Instances management fees 60% for P-series and Trainium and 35% for G-series from July 1, 2026, the same day Capacity Block GPU rates rose. Here is how to capture the cut, with configuration
AWS Trainium3 is generally available in 2026 with 30-40% better price-performance than Trainium2. Here is how it compares with NVIDIA H200 and B200 on real cost per token and what Neuron migration costs.
India's public cloud spending is forecast to grow 28.1% to $17.5 billion in 2026, and Flexera says wasted spend rose to 29% for the first time in five years. This is a refreshed, senior-engineer FinOps playbook: nine
A self-hosted control plane, shipped inside the Claude Code binary, that gives platform teams one place to manage access, policy, routing and spend for Claude Code across AWS and Google Cloud.
Renting an H100 in India starts near ₹217/hour in 2026; IndiaAI subsidises compute to about ₹67-92/GPU-hour. Compare Indian providers, neoclouds and hyperscalers on H100, H200 and B200, with the buy-versus-rent maths.
On 16 June 2026 Google Cloud changed the default CUD scope from Project to Billing account. Commitments bought by one team now discount usage in projects that never paid for them. Here is how to check your scope
Amazon EKS 1.33 drops out of standard support on 29 July 2026 and billing jumps from $0.10 to $0.60 per cluster hour that same day. Here is the upgrade path to 1.36 and every breaking change between.
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reaches end of standard support on 31 July 2026, and Extended Support billing begins the next day at roughly $292/month for a single db.r5.xlarge. Azure and Google Cloud bill from 1 January
Azure Update 559756 paused the 128 KiB minimum billable object size for cool, cold and archive tiers. Billing did not change on 1 July 2026 for new or existing accounts. AWS still bills a 128 KB floor; Google does not.
On July 1, 2026 Azure stopped new purchases and renewals of Reserved VM Instances for 18 VM series, including Dv3, Ev3, Av2 and Fsv2. Existing RIs still run to term. Two options remain, the renewal escape hatch is gone
AI infrastructure spending is projected at $1.5 trillion for 2026, and Sequoia's arithmetic says the industry must earn $3 trillion to justify it. Frontier lab revenue sits in the low hundreds of billions. Here is what
AWS lifted EC2 Capacity Block rates roughly 20% on July 1, 2026, six months after a 15% rise on January 4. P6-B300 now bills at $14.04 per accelerator hour. Here is what changed, why analysts disagree on the cause
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 is in full production and promises up to 10x lower cost per token than Blackwell, arriving in the cloud in H2 2026. Here is why your GPU bill may still climb first, and the FinOps moves that
Cloud waste hit a five-year high of 29% in 2026 as AI workloads made spend unpredictable. eCorpIT's cloud FinOps managed service brings visibility, rightsizing, and anomaly detection to AWS, Azure, and GCP so teams cut
AWS's FinOps Agent entered public preview at FinOps X 2026: agentic AI that root-causes cost spikes, answers plain-language cost questions, and attributes Bedrock AI spend by model and user.
In 2026, 98% of FinOps teams manage AI spend, Azure Copilot ships optimization agents that act under governance, and Graviton4 lifts price-performance up to 40%. Here is what cloud teams and CFOs should automate
