As cloud bills surge, CFOs are stepping in to drive AI-led decisions

Cloud was meant to make technology spending more flexible. Instead, for many organisations, it has become one of the fastest-growing and least predictable costs on the balance sheet. Global public cloud spending has crossed the $700 billion mark, growing at over 20% annually in recent years, as enterprises scale workloads and expand AI-led use cases. Cloud environments have become more complex, and cloud bills incline more towards being a financial priority rather than just an engineering concern.