COMMENTARY: Shortly after enterprise cloud adoption exploded, an entire ecosystem of startups emerged to solve a singular, bleeding wound: the cloud bill.From spot instances to automated cost optimization platforms, the industry rushed to stand up FinOps architectures designed to save compute budget and wrangle runaway microservices.[SC Media Perspectives columns are written by a trusted community of SC Media cybersecurity subject matter experts. Read more Perspectives here.]Yet, years into the cloud era, true cost optimization remains an unsolved puzzle. Hidden infrastructure expenses persist, and organizations still struggle to cleanly calculate exact infrastructure-costs-per-user, a gap that routinely breaks financial forecasting, pricing models, and business insights.Now, history has repeated itself at a blistering pace. As organizations rush to integrate AI, we are facing an…
