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FinOps and AI: Building the Financial Discipline for the Next Wave of Enterprise Intelligence

Prayukti Shankar — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Artificial intelligence has reached an inflection point. Foundation models, agent-based architectures, and enterprise platforms such as Amazon Bedrock now make it possible for organisations to embed generative AI into workflows with unprecedented speed and ease. However, as AI moves from experimentation into production, a new challenge is emerging: AI is not just a technological shift, but a profound financial one.

Confidence Under Load: How We Verified AKS Readiness for Peak

Basil Benny — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:45:00 GMT

Introduction

In cloud-native platforms, peak periods put both technology and operational readiness to the test. Increased traffic does not just strain capacity; it often exposes hidden assumptions within Kubernetes architectures that can impact business-critical outcomes.

Building Cloud Resilience: Lessons from the AWS Outage

Team Capacitas — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:15:00 GMT

When AWS stumbled this week, much of the internet stumbled with it. Apps froze. Payments failed. Services timed out. For most people, it was an inconvenience. For the businesses that run on AWS, it was a high-stakes reminder of how fragile digital scale can be.

Bringing Order to Chaos: A Practical Guide to Chaos Testing in the Cloud

Ben Pollins — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:00:00 GMT

In today’s cloud-native environments, resilience is not optional—it’s critical. Chaos testing has emerged as a key practice for validating system behaviour under failure conditions. However, effective chaos testing demands more than injecting random disruptions; it requires a structured and disciplined approach. Here’s how to get it right:

Integrating Lighthouse into Cypress Testing: A Guide to Performance & Accessibility Audits

Catherine Brown — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:30:00 GMT

Why Integrate Lighthouse into Cypress?

3 Parallels between construction and cloud

Ben Pollins — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:15:00 GMT

As a recent mover from the construction industry into the tech world, I have a somewhat unique perspective on what we do at Capacitas and as an industry. I spent the first four years of my career as a Mechanical Engineer, delivering critical cooling systems for data centre projects, before pivoting into building control systems, and ultimately joining Capacitas.

Capacitas DevOps Cloud Forecast Guide

bogdangrigore@capacitas.co.uk (Bogdan Grigore) — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

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CFO focus: Why your CTO should be concerned about cloud costs – and how you can influence them

frank_warren@hotmail.co.uk (Frank Warren) — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

As a CFO, convincing your chief technology officer (CTO) to prioritise cloud cost optimisation is crucial for effective budget management. With cloud waste estimated at 30% of total spending (Flexera 2023), optimising costs can lead to significant savings, both in the short and longer term.

Here’s how to make cloud cost management a higher priority for your CTO:

Beyond FinOps: Addressing The Missing Pieces In Cloud Cost Optimisation

jasoncross@capacitas.co.uk (Jason Cross) — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:45:00 GMT

FinOps has emerged as a valuable methodology for organisations seeking to optimise their cloudcosts. It provides visibility, accountability, and improved resource management. Many organisations are on what is called rate optimisation, which is focused on getting discounts through Reserved Instances, Saving Plans, Volume discounts and EDPs. While these are good levers to pull, they can limit the amount you can save on your cloud bill because rate optimisation doesn't address waste. Eliminating unused resources and rightsizing does go some way to address waste, however, to truly achieve sustainable cloud cost control, you need to go a bit deeper. That is because FinOps assumes that all workloads are valid and provides business value, but this is rarely the case.

5 Steps To Setting Your Cloud Budget

frank_warren@hotmail.co.uk (Frank Warren) — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:15:00 GMT

One of the questions I often get asked is: Why is a cloud budget forecast needed? The answer is simple. Like any major expenditure, cloud budgets need to be optimised and aligned with business objectives to maintain cost predictability and prevent overspending.