15 stories tagged finops.
Per-user quotas are now generally available in Snowflake, letting admins set daily and monthly credit limits per user with automatic block enforcement and tag-based scoping. Anomaly monitors in preview add team-level spike detection.
Five AWS services drive 80 percent of spend. Rightsizing, commitment discounts and storage tiering pull hardest, and the FinOps Agent automates the triage.
A dev team's GitHub bill has four parts: Actions, Copilot, Codespaces and Packages. AI agents multiply the Actions bill. The levers are runner and seat audits.
Matillion bills on pipeline credits and runners. The three levers are pipeline efficiency, runner right-sizing and scheduling. Maia AI adds a new cost line.
FinOps is the operating discipline for cloud and SaaS spend: three phases, 22 capabilities. AI agents now automate nearly half of them.
Running Postgres costs from $15 per month on RDS to tens of thousands self-managed. The three levers are right-sizing, storage tiering and connection pooling.
Power BI licensing is a maze of Pro seats, Premium and Fabric SKUs that can turn a $10 tool into a six-figure bill. The levers are license and capacity audits.
Snowflake bills are driven by compute credits, storage and serverless. Warehouse right-sizing, resource monitors and auto-suspend keep the bill predictable.
The AI compute cost gap is widening: 92 percent of enterprises lack mature cost tracking for AI infrastructure even as 45 percent plan to switch or add providers within a year, risking runaway spend.
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is GA on AWS in six regions, with query-level billing and a 1.2x Snowflake benchmark edge over Gen2.
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is query-based adaptive warehouse compute. Use its 2 knobs to cap bursts, monitor credits, and avoid blind migrations.
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is query billed warehouse compute with 2 tuning knobs. Use it when tuning costs more than control.
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is query-billed warehouse compute. Its default XLARGE cap and multiplier 2 force FinOps teams to retest sizing.
Snowflake Gen2 standard warehouses run on faster hardware and finish most queries quicker, but they bill at a higher credit rate and you often have to switch with a SQL clause. Whether they save money depends entirely on whether the speedup beats the rate.
Snowflake warehouse sizing sets your credit burn: each size up doubles credits per hour, so a 4XL costs 128 credits per hour against an XS at 1. Right-size by workload, not by habit.