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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.
Manu Shukla 
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
Manu Shukla 
CloudWatch Coding Agent Insights, launched July 20, 2026, gives engineering leaders OpenTelemetry dashboards for AI coding tools: how to measure token spend, per-team cost and developer productivity across Claude Code
Manu Shukla 
A specs-and-cost comparison of Google Ironwood (TPU7x) and NVIDIA B200 for AI inference in 2026: memory, bandwidth, scale, software lock-in, consumption models, and a decision matrix for when to pick each.
Manu Shukla 
India's data centre numbers get quoted interchangeably, but 1.9 GW of capacity, $120 billion in commitments, and a $1.7 billion market are three different things. Here is how to read them before you decide where to host
Manu Shukla 
AWS's June 2026 container caching removes the ECR image pull from SageMaker scale-out. In AWS's own test a GenAI endpoint's cold start fell from 525 to 258 seconds. The benchmarks and when to use it.
Manu Shukla 
Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027, Gartner says, on escalating cost, unclear value and weak risk controls. A build plan for staying in the surviving 60%.
Manu Shukla 
On July 22, 2026 Cursor launched Router, a request-level classifier that sends each coding request to the best model. In Cursor's own tests it cut costs 30-60% versus Opus 4.8. Here are the numbers and the trade-offs.
Manu Shukla 
AMD put EPYC Venice into production on TSMC 2nm in May 2026, then spent July announcing where it lands first: two new Azure VM series and Anthropic's 2 gigawatt Helios deployment. Here is how to read the numbers before
Manu Shukla 
S3 Standard runs $0.023/GB and GCP Standard $0.020 in 2026, but egress and retrieval fees decide the real bill. Compare AWS, Azure and GCP storage tiers, and the tactics that actually cut spend.
Manu Shukla 
Alibaba Cloud unveiled Agent Native Cloud at WAIC on 18 July 2026, adding AgentLoop and AgentTeams to AgentRun. Here is how the three big agent runtimes compare on billing, isolation, observability and lock-in.
Manu Shukla 
AMD and NVIDIA both ship 72-accelerator AI racks in 2026, and almost none of their headline numbers are measured the same way. A line-by-line normalisation of the two vendor-published spec sheets, and the seven
Manu Shukla 
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
Manu Shukla 
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.
Manu Shukla 
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
Manu Shukla 
Gartner expects power to constrain 40% of AI data centers by 2027, and GPU lead times run 36 to 52 weeks. This 2026 playbook covers capacity forecasting, spot vs reserved, neo-clouds and procurement governance.
Manu Shukla 
A 2026 cost-per-token comparison of the NVIDIA B200 and H100 for LLM inference, with MLPerf v6.0 throughput, real cloud hourly rates, the arithmetic that makes the pricier chip cheaper per token, and the cases where
Manu Shukla 
Frontier LLM output prices fell about 94% since 2023, and a 100x spread now separates the cheapest models from the priciest. How to migrate off deprecated models and cut your AI bill.
Manu Shukla 
GitHub Copilot now bills by GitHub AI Credits, not seats alone. A senior engineer's guide to credit pools, cost-center caps, per-user budgets and chargeback that holds at scale in 2026.
Manu Shukla 
Meta reportedly plans Meta Compute to rent out its spare AI GPUs, and the news moved billions on 1 July 2026. What is confirmed, why the neoclouds fell hardest, and whether renting surplus GPU capacity is worth it.
Manu Shukla 
AWS Interconnect - multicloud reached GA on 14 April 2026 with Google Cloud as first launch partner. A 10 Gbps Tier 1 link costs $9,000.90 a month with no per-GB charges. Attach a Cloud WAN Core Network with a Singapore
Manu Shukla 
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.
Manu Shukla 
Cursor split Teams usage into two pools and added a $120 Premium seat for renewals from 1 July 2026. Premium buys 5x the included usage at 3x the cost, which makes its included usage 40% cheaper per unit. Here is
Manu Shukla 
Thinking Machines released Inkling on 15 July 2026 under Apache 2.0: 975B parameters, 41B active. We priced the GPUs against the Tinker API using AWS and vendor figures, and the break-even is brutal.
Manu Shukla 