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.
The public cloud market leader is phasing out third-party resale of commitment discounts and clarifying that all software sold on the AWS Marketplace must be deployed on AWS for commitment retirement. These shifts are part of a recalibration of how partners and ISVs can benefit from their relationship with AWS, requiring a greater measure of added value for the end customer and AWS itself.
Businesses face challenges in managing public cloud expenses, focusing on budget planning, forecasting, cloud policy, governance and billing complexity. To address these, they adopt FinOps tools to enhance planning, optimize spending, improve visibility and manage resources, emphasizing disciplined spending over reducing overall costs.
Organizations rely heavily on virtualization to make their IT environments more efficient and manageable, but recent market disruption has caused customers to reconsider their options. Take five minutes to read five Voice of the Customer qualitative interview comments and what they mean.
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud are investing to capture the AI inference opportunity while leveraging proprietary data to craft AI agents that represent compelling use cases for GenAI. Although the performance of DeepSeek's low-cost V3 and R1 models was eye-opening, the techniques will likely be additive to the hyperscalers' efficiency efforts.
The company's recent purchases of LiveDiagrams and PerfectScale represent consolidation in the FinOps market as well as maturity in the FinOps discipline. The goal is to combine rate optimization, usage optimization and cloud-native observability to deliver always-on, largely automated savings coverage for off-premises resources.
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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