EP6 - Cloud Prices Only Go Up Now

The cloud pricing floor is gone — and your FinOps model doesn't know it yet.AWS hiked ML GPU instances 15% in January. Alibaba Cloud raised GPU pricing up to 34% this week. Baidu moved the same day. Google Cloud is next in May.We debate what this means for your commitment strategy when the baseline is moving in the wrong direction.Then: Microsoft's new $99/user M365 E7 "Frontier Suite" goes on sale May 1.Gartner ran the bundle math — the real discount is 13.2%. Copilot sits at 3% adoption. Agent 365 ships as a work in progress. We cover the bull case, the bear case, and the one contract clause your procurement team doesn't know to ask for.Two topics. One theme: the rules changed while you were watching the dashboard.cloudcostchefs.com