https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/Recent content in Blog on Aureon AdvisoryHugoenTue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/finops-decision-rights/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/finops-decision-rights/FinOps has run on partly informal authority: reputation and a record of good calls. An agent cannot be authorised by any of that, so tacit authority has to become written policy before an autonomous identity acts. A client request queued 16 working days shows the gap before any agent arrives.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/paid-to-tell-you-to-stop-cutting/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/paid-to-tell-you-to-stop-cutting/Your cost tools, and some of your advisers, are paid to push the bill down. Before you let an agent act on your spend, get three answers in writing: what it is optimising for, what must not get worse, and who owns the setting.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/ai-finops-practitioner-economist/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/ai-finops-practitioner-economist/You can see more AI consumption than ever, yet 56 per cent of CEOs report no significant financial benefit. Measuring AI expenditure and establishing its economic value are separate disciplines, and most organisations have only built the first.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/token-price-trap/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/token-price-trap/A lower price per million tokens can hide a higher cost per outcome. Jan Iłowski argues token pricing is meaningless, and he is right. It is the same mistake cloud finance made with the utility bill, and it is worth learning to measure AI by the cost of a decision instead of the price of a token.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/85-percent-tag-coverage-zero-answers/Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/85-percent-tag-coverage-zero-answers/Your tagging strategy is measuring compliance, not enabling decisions. Learn why allocation models come first and how five tags chosen with intent beat twelve copied from an enterprise playbook.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/roi-calculator-every-cfo-needs/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/roi-calculator-every-cfo-needs/Your CFO asks ‘What’s the ROI on FinOps?’ Here’s a multidimensional calculator covering savings, velocity, risk, and innovation metrics.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/ai-workloads-are-breaking-finops-model/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/ai-workloads-are-breaking-finops-model/AI spending breaking your budget with no clear ROI? Learn why traditional FinOps fails and how CFOs are using portfolio theory to govern AI investments.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/finops-isnt-costcutting/Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/finops-isnt-costcutting/Stop treating cloud as an expense to cut. Learn why leading organisations manage cloud spend as an investment portfolio, not a utility bill.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/breaking-down-aws-cur-part-2/Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/breaking-down-aws-cur-part-2/Turn raw AWS CUR data into actionable dashboards. Advanced Athena queries, QuickSight visualisations, and anomaly detection techniques.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/breaking-down-aws-cur-part-1/Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/breaking-down-aws-cur-part-1/Master AWS Cost and Usage Reports from scratch. Set up CUR, centralise data across accounts, and enable tag-driven chargebacks.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/deep-dive-into-cost-allocaton-models/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/deep-dive-into-cost-allocaton-models/Account-based or tag-driven? Discover which cost allocation model fits your organisation and how to blend approaches for maximum clarity.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/effective-cost-allocation-strategy/Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/effective-cost-allocation-strategy/Stop guessing where cloud costs come from. Build an AWS cost allocation strategy with tagging, chargebacks, and clear team accountability.https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/building-finops-culture-training/Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +1000https://aureonadvisory.com/blog/building-finops-culture-training/Tools alone won’t control cloud costs. Learn how to build a FinOps culture that makes cost awareness second nature across your organisation.