Tag: Cost Management
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Azure OpenAI Cost Governance and FinOps (Azure Gen AI Series, Part 26)
When a Provisioned Throughput reservation actually beats pay as you go on Azure OpenAI, how to read a bill hidden under Cognitive Services, and the Batch and caching discounts you get for free.
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Amazon Bedrock Cost Governance and FinOps on AWS (AWS Gen AI Series, Part 26)
Bedrock cost is driven by tokens, model choice, and inference tier. Here is how I attribute spend by team, cut it with batch and prompt caching, and put budgets and anomaly alerts around it before the bill surprises anyone.
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Cost, Pricing Cards and Showback in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 28)
Where cost actually lives in VCF 9, how rate-based and cost-based pricing cards differ, and how showback and chargeback turn consumption into a defensible bill against an organization or region quota.
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VCF 9 Operations Capacity and Cost Management: A Practical Runbook (VCF 9 Series, Part 20)
A hands-on runbook for capacity planning, rightsizing, reclamation and cost reporting in VCF 9 Operations, including the model and policy choices that decide whether the recommendations are worth trusting.
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VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
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- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
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- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
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- Hugging Face Models
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About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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