The Economics of Cloud-Native AI: A FinOps Perspective
The rise of cloud-native AI has transformed how enterprises enhance their business platform from design, deployment, and scale intelligent applications to make them secure, safe, and scalable across the global industry. Most company uses cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to offer the elasticity and specialized hardware required for complex AI/ML workloads, but they also introduce significant financial challenges. When it comes to traditional IT spending, where infrastructure costs were predictable and centralized, cloud-native AI demands dynamic, distributed, and often unpredictable consumption patterns. This is where financial accountability combines with cloud operations and plays an important role for various organizations in investing heavily in AI platforms. Adopting a FinOps mindset ensures that financial efficiency aligns with technical innovation. In this blog, we will define the economics of cloud-native AI through a FinOps lens, focusing on cost models, resour...