Cloud economics

How cloud and AI spend is measured, where the cost curves cross, and how to decide what to run, buy or bring back in-house.

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FinOps Maturity

Insight · Cloud Economics · Episode 17 · 30 Oct 2026

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  1. FinOps Maturity

    Cloud cost control is a capability you grow, not a dashboard you buy. The maturity ladder from raw visibility to unit economics — and the practices on each rung.

    Insight · Cloud Economics · 7:45

  2. FinOps for AI: Why Your LLM Bill Is Exploding — and How to Stop It

    Traditional cloud bills scale with traffic. AI bills scale with autonomy — and an agent stuck in a loop spends like an intern with a corporate credit card. The circuit breakers, caching, and chargeback discipline that keep agentic spend answerable to somebody.

    Writing · Cloud Economics · 10:03

  3. AI Cost Curves

    When API costs cross the self-hosting line — the economics that drive AI infrastructure decisions, and how to spot the crossover before it hits your bill.

    Insight · Cloud Economics · 9:05

  4. Build vs Buy

    The decision framework every CTO faces — when to build, when to buy, and when to compose. A structured way through the trade-offs that define your stack.

    Insight · Everything else · 7:06

  5. Cloud Repatriation Is Portfolio Management, Not Ideology

    The repatriation conversation has become tribal — cloud believers vs data-centre revivalists. Both camps are wrong. The right question is workload-by-workload: where do the economics, performance, and compliance of this specific system land?

    Writing · Cloud Economics · 8:08

  6. Cloud Exit Readiness: The Dependency Test Before You Repatriate Anything

    A practical cloud-exit readiness framework covering workload fit, dependencies, data gravity, contracts, operations, continuity and phased migration.

    Writing · Cloud Economics · 4:10

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