{"id":1012455,"date":"2026-06-05T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012455"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:56:55","slug":"as-cloud-bills-surge-cfos-are-stepping-in-to-drive-ai-led-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/05\/as-cloud-bills-surge-cfos-are-stepping-in-to-drive-ai-led-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"As cloud bills surge, CFOs are stepping in to drive AI-led decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012459,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012455\/revisions\/1012459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}