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Cloud FinOps is no longer a side conversation for architects, CFOs, or cloud operations teams—it is the fight that will define who survives the next wave of enterprise transformation. In this video, we break down why 2026 is exposing the ugly truth: too many companies still have no idea where their cloud money is going, why AI workloads are detonating budgets, and why most FinOps programs are delivering far less value than promised. This is not about trimming a few wasted instances. It is about the brutal collision of cloud complexity, executive delusion, runaway SaaS spend, and AI-fueled infrastructure costs that are rewriting the economics of IT.
By David Linthicum5
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Cloud FinOps is no longer a side conversation for architects, CFOs, or cloud operations teams—it is the fight that will define who survives the next wave of enterprise transformation. In this video, we break down why 2026 is exposing the ugly truth: too many companies still have no idea where their cloud money is going, why AI workloads are detonating budgets, and why most FinOps programs are delivering far less value than promised. This is not about trimming a few wasted instances. It is about the brutal collision of cloud complexity, executive delusion, runaway SaaS spend, and AI-fueled infrastructure costs that are rewriting the economics of IT.

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