Hyperscaler GenAI gets cheaper as pricing finds its level
Biography
Jean Atelsek is a senior research analyst working across the Cloud & Managed Services Transformation channel and digital economics unit of 451 Research, a technology research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. She covers vendors and technologies that manage or optimize public and private cloud total cost of operations, performance or consumption. This includes FinOps products, platforms and providers that help organizations forecast, analyze and optimize cloud spending based on data collected from the IT environment. In the cloud-native universe, Jean focuses on container-native software and platforms, serverless architectures, service mesh, and the converging worlds of observability, runtime policy enforcement and application networking. She also covers technology accelerators for application modernization, including the application of natural language processing and generative AI to effect code translation. As a maintainer of the quarterly Cloud Price Index, Jean tracks benchmark pricing for a selection of infrastructure and managed services around the world. With data collected from millions of hyperscaler SKUs, she looks at trends in pricing, service additions and regional expansion plans for the major public cloud providers. Prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, Jean worked at Omdia in the telecom, networks and consumer technology sectors. She holds a BA from Oberlin College.
Geographic Coverage
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Recent Research from Jean Atelsek
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Survey Data Hub - Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Native, Server Virtualization/Hypervisor Strategy 2024
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VMware remains prevalent, but virtualization alternatives take root – Highlights from VotE: Cloud Native
This survey examines the incumbency of VMware, the progress of alternative virtualization approaches in the enterprise and the extent to which cloud-native technologies have become first-class citizens in the IT estate.
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Hyperscalers slow regional expansion to lowest level in 11 years
The major cloud providers added eight regions to the public cloud universe in 2024, with New Zealand joining the roster of countries with domestic datacenters. The six vendors now operate 221 regions in 38 countries, with an additional 36 regions on the collective road map.
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FinOps convergence gathers pace as Flexera takes on NetApp's Spot (and CloudCheckr)
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CloudZero's FinOps platform highlights unit economics
The vendor allocates 100% of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud costs, and can ingest spending on popular software from the likes of Snowflake and Databricks. Its goal is to bring cost awareness and accountability to engineers, IT operations and finance teams.
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