Cloud cost, FinOps, AI and engineering — product updates and deep dives.https://mofcloud.com/enhttps://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-24-azure-reseller-cost/https://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-24-azure-reseller-cost/Buying Azure through a reseller (CSP)? What you see is the pay-as-you-go rate, not what you pay the reseller. Azure is the easiest of the three to connect — one service principal, no exports to set up — and a custom discount turns PAYG into what you actually owe.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-24-gcp-reseller-cost/https://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-24-gcp-reseller-cost/If a reseller resold you GCP, the billing data lives in their BigQuery — mixed with every other customer — and what you pay isn't the raw number on the bill. Here's how to get a filtered BigQuery view of just your data, and use MOF to compute what you actually owe.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-22-aws-reseller-cost-analysis/https://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-22-aws-reseller-cost-analysis/If a reseller opened your AWS account, you're a member account and the org-wide bill sits with them. But in most cases you can still export your own CUR and connect it — no reseller needed. Here's the self-test, the two situations, and the exact IAM policies.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMThttps://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-22-ai-vs-human-cost-china/https://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-22-ai-vs-human-cost-china/Everyone assumes replacing people with AI saves money. Tokens are cheap — but the real bill hides in five places most comparisons skip. We run the numbers with Chinese salaries and Chinese model prices, using one engineering team as the worked example.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-21-finops-tools-for-chinese-clouds/https://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-21-finops-tools-for-chinese-clouds/Most cloud cost tools quietly don't support Chinese clouds. A 2026 comparison of Western FinOps tools (Vantage, Cloudability, CloudZero, Finout, CloudHealth…) and Chinese platforms — which support Alibaba, Tencent, Volcengine & Huawei, pricing, self-host, and how to choose.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-20-meet-mof/https://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-20-meet-mof/One dashboard for every cloud bill — normalized cost, allocation, and anomaly detection across AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, and more. Plus Mofis, the cloud architect Agent that reads your live bills.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-19-beyond-the-dashboard/https://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-19-beyond-the-dashboard/Everyone has cost dashboards now. The bottleneck moved from seeing spend to deciding what to do about it — and that takes an architect's judgment, applied to your live bills. Our take on where FinOps goes next.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-18-why-cloud-costs-spiral/https://mofcloud.com/blog/2026-08-18-why-cloud-costs-spiral/Cloud bills rarely blow up because of one big mistake. They drift upward through eight quiet leaks — here's each one, and the FinOps habit that plugs it.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT