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CloudHealth Roundtable: Leadership Responds to the State of FinOps 2026 On Thursday, February 19th, 2026, the FinOps Foundation released its 6th annual State of FinOps report, providing invaluable insights into the trends, challenges, and maturity of the FinOps discipline. In this blog, we share the discussion from our recent CloudHealth roundtable discussion where the leadership team reacted to the key findings of the report, offering their expert commentary and perspective on the current state of FinOps. Before the roundtable on Wednesday, February 25th, Cathal Cleary outlined CloudHealth's response to the trends and challenges highlighted ...
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Fresh from the Labs - CloudHealth Product Enhancements February 2026 The latest FinOps Foundation's State of FinOps report underscores the critical need for robust tools that provide granular cloud visibility, optimization capabilities, and a unified view across multi-cloud environments. As organizations mature in their FinOps practice, the complexity of managing cloud spend—especially across AWS, Azure, and GCP—demands solutions that simplify data curation, automate anomaly detection, and deliver actionable insights like commitment discount recommendations. This need was a central theme at the recent CloudHealth Roundtable, where industry leaders ...
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The State of FinOps 2026: Why CloudHealth is Your Strategic Partner for the Next Era of Technology Value About the Author: Cathal Cleary (Product Leader, CloudHealth) The results of the FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps survey are officially in, and the message is clear: the discipline has evolved far beyond basic cloud cost-cutting. Today, FinOps is the "operating system" for managing technology value across AI, SaaS, and hybrid infrastructure. As I look at our recent 2025 releases and our 2026 roadmap, I am incredibly proud to see that CloudHealth isn’t just following these trends—we are defining them. Our product strategy is perfectly ...
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2025 in Review: A Year of Intelligence, Speed, and the new CloudHealth experience About the Author: Cathal Cleary (Product Leader, CloudHealth) 2025 marked a truly transformative year for the CloudHealth platform. Building on the foundation laid in 2024, the platform saw the successful launch of the new CloudHealth experience . This release went far beyond the visible interface overhaul, delivering significant advancements in multi-cloud visibility, AI-driven assistance, and operational efficiency for our partners. In 2025 we released 70+ features with an emphasis on usability and reliability. 61% of all feature work was focused on the new CloudHealth ...
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Fresh From the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates January 2026 For many, January represents a new start. “New Year, new you.” The CloudHealth team, however, has decided to keep building on the incredible momentum it had in the second half of 2025. CloudHealth’s January product update boasts 8 new features for our customers and partners. Headlined by the Public Beta of Custom Datasets and the addition of Dashboards to Content Packages for our Partners, the team has been hard at work delivering impactful and meaningful improvements. Let’s dive into the January 2026 updates. In the New Experience Public Beta | Custom Datasets CloudHealth ...
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The New CloudHealth Experience & the Operate Phase of the FinOps Framework Originally Published: August 6, 2024 Starting in June, leading up to FinOps X in San Diego, the CloudHealth team has been teasing a new CloudHealth user experience . While in San Diego at FinOps X, those in attendance were lucky enough to get a tech preview of it live at the CloudHealth booth in the Expo. Throughout the Summer, we have been bringing the new user experience into the context of a user’s journey in cloud maturity, and aligning it to the FinOps Phases developed by the FinOps Foundation. At the beginning of July, my colleague did a deep dive into ...
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The New CloudHealth Experience and the Optimize Phase of the FinOps Framework Originally Published: July 22, 2024 At FinOps X in San Diego back in June, the CloudHealth team proudly introduced the brand new user experience for CloudHealth. The team behind this new experience poured their heart and soul into a solution purpose-built for the modern FinOps practitioner, providing you with unprecedented visibility and customization. Earlier this month, we also started a series of blogs to share how we will use this new user experience to align with users throughout the Phases of their FinOps journey. Maturing with the FinOps Framework In ...
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The New CloudHealth Experience and the Inform Phase of the FinOps Framework Originally Published: July 9, 2024 As announced in June, the CloudHealth team has been hard at work reimaging and engineering a brand new CloudHealth user experience. We unveiled this live for the first time at FinOps X in San Diego, and were so encouraged to see the excitement and positive feedback from this first look. As we continue getting closer to the availability of this new experience for all CloudHealth customers, we’ll be posting a series of blogs showing how it has been tailored to the needs of today’s FinOps Practitioner through all three phases of the FinOps ...
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State of FinOps 2025 Takeaways

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State of FinOps 2025 Takeaways Originally Published: February 27, 2025 About the Author: Lucas Paratore (Product Manager, CloudHealth) The fifth FinOps Foundation State of FinOps results were shared last week, and it is clear FinOps teams have their work cut out for them this year! Although we see consistencies with last year’s results, there is one new significant trend: FinOps teams are going to be responsible for more than just public cloud going forward. I’ll dig into that and more below! FinOps = Cloud and… Back in November, 2024 as a part of FinOps X Europe, the FinOps Foundation introduced the concept of “Scopes” to address the growing ...
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Scopes, AI, and FOCUS: Unpacking FinOps X 2025 Originally Published: June 25, 2025 About the Author: Lucas Paratore (Product Manager, CloudHealth) Same location, same energy, same passion. All the anticipated qualities of FinOps X 2025 returned even with it being the biggest FinOps X ever. In every keynote and every presentation, it was apparent. But, it wasn’t just that this was the most attended FinOps X. No, it was clear to everyone that FinOps has become larger than just public cloud. From beginning to end, we saw the topics of Scopes, AI, and FOCUS dominated the conference. Getting Deeper into Scopes Debuted at FinOps X Barcelona in November ...
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CloudHealth Intelligent Assist: Your FinOps Co-Pilot for Multi-Cloud Cost Intelligence Originally Published: July, 17, 2025 About the Author: Vani Chugh (Engineer, CloudHealth) In today’s rapidly evolving cloud landscape, managing costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP is no small feat. Enterprises often struggle with siloed billing dashboards, complex pricing models, and fragmented insights. That’s where FinOps comes in—to bring financial accountability to cloud spending. But as cloud usage scales, so do the challenges. What if you could ask questions and get instant answers about your cloud spend, usage patterns, and savings recommendations across ...
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Fresh from the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates December 2025 December provides a natural opportunity to reflect on the year and look forward to the coming year. Before the confetti has been cleaned up from New Years, let’s dive into what’s new for CloudHealth in December. What’s New in December Allocate Across Groups (Pin Accounts) Cost Reallocation Rule (Classic Experience) Customers can now choose to allocate across perspective groups while maintaining the account assignment of the original cost. Previously, when moving cost across Perspective Groups, the account associated with the cost would change to the account associated with the destination ...
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Recapping Announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025 About the Author: Lucas Paratore, Product Manager - CloudHealth | FinOps Foundation Technical Advisory Counsel AWS re:Invent is often remembered for what’s loudest on stage. Although, while it is exciting for the FinOps practitioner, it likely is not disruptive to their day-to-day life. This year was different. With the introduction of Database Savings Plans during the keynote to the updates soft launched the week prior, these updates were about fixing long-standing challenges in how cloud costs are committed, shared, and charged back.. Database Savings Plans The headline announcement for the FinOps ...
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How CloudHealth Can Help You Buy Your First AWS Database Savings Plan Confidently Author: Sanjna Srivatsa, CloudHealth Product Manager and Data Scientist The recent announcement of AWS Database Savings Plans marks a pivotal shift in cloud financial management. For years, optimizing database costs meant navigating a rigid landscape of Reserved Instances (RIs)—locking you into specific engines, regions, and instance types. The new Database Savings Plans promise the same flexibility we’ve enjoyed with Compute Savings Plans: commit to a steady hourly spend (e.g., $50/hour) and get significant discounts across Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and more, ...
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Fresh From the Labs: CloudHealth Portfolio Update November 2025 Even as 2025 winds down and everyone starts "circling back after the Holidays," the CloudHealth team hasn't slowed down! We're thrilled to share all the new features we've been developing in November. Let's take a look at what the team has been cooking in the labs! Update to GraphQL API Documentation CloudHealth is pleased to share that the GraphQL API documentation is now publicly available and no longer requires login. Previously, access to this documentation required login to the CloudHealth platform. Click Here to access the GraphQL API documentation. Dashboard Sharing ...
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How CloudHealth Cut FinOps Bot Costs by over 99% with Google's Gemini Model About the Authors: Sanjna Srivatsa (Data Scientist, Product, CloudHealth) Darien Schettler (Generative AI Architect, Broadcom) Pathik Sharma (Cloud FinOps Lead, delta, Google Cloud Consulting) Introduction At CloudHealth, we pride ourselves on helping businesses optimize their cloud spend. It's what we do. So, when it came to optimizing our own AI operating costs, we faced a delightful irony: we, the experts in FinOps, found ourselves navigating the complexities of large language model (LLM) expenses. This is the story of how we tackled that challenge ...
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“The only thing to fear is fear itself” - President Franklin D Roosevelt Throughout the month of October, CloudHealth's LinkedIn featured "Frightening FinOps Fables," addressing common fears faced by FinOps teams globally. These fables explored issues such as unauthorized access, unallocated spend, zombie resources, and the challenges of managing a FinOps managed service at scale. We're excited to announce CloudHealth's latest October product updates, featuring new tools designed to empower teams and overcome FinOps fears by providing essential resources. Let's dive in and explore what's new. For Our Partners… Customer ...
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