finops
Finops for AI gets a new neutral working group under the Linux Foundation to quell token cost fears.
Enterprises find AI adoption metrics are a lousy substitute for cost-per-outcome, but AI finops is tricky.
"The yearly cost will be below $200,000. Much easier to swallow than $1.5m/year"
FinOps... CapEx? Access to IPv4 reserve pool protects it from “being forced to purchase these in an ad hoc manner”...
"Traditional FinOps cost allocation (e.g. mapping costs of resources back to teams or projects) doesn’t work. You can’t simply allocate the cost of a resource, such as EC2 instance to a tag or label..."
A longer "lookback" period of utilisation history, centralised cost savings hub and more. But don't rely on it alone...
Central bank keen to "improve consumption-based spend and reporting and to be able to "make strategic TCO decisions on location of workloads..."