Cloud Cost News
Updates and highlights from the world of FinOps, tools, and cloud cost optimization.
BigQuery spend-based CUDs offer 10–20% discounts for committing to a fixed hourly spend on PAYG capacity for 1 or 3 years in a specific region. Discounts apply automatically across eligible BigQuery usage.
Amazon Aurora and RDS now support Reserved Instances for Graviton4-based R8g and M8g instances, offering up to 40% better performance and 29% improved price-performance over Graviton3. These instances support larger sizes and feature DDR5 memory for enhanced efficiency.
Cost Optimization Hub now supports DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations. You can filter and aggregate recommendations across both services, making it easier to identify the highest cost-saving opportunities for DynamoDB and MemoryDB.
The April 2025 release of the FinOps Toolkit introduces Microsoft Fabric integration, expands support to Azure Government and China, and updates the FinOps Framework to include SaaS and on-prem scopes—alongside key data quality and reporting enhancements.