Cost Visibility Is Not Cost Control

Cost visibility tells you what your architecture costs. Cost control determines whether that architecture should have existed in the first place. These are not the same discipline. Most organizations treat them as if they are — and the FinOps data proves they have been doing so for years without fixing the underlying problem. The State of FinOps 2026 report found that 98% of organizations are now actively managing AI spend. Tooling investment has increased. Executive ownership has expanded. Repo