{"product_id":"ai-first-finops-and-cloud-al-qayoom-9798274560917","title":"AI First FinOps and Cloud Cost Engineering: Learn Cloud Cost Optimization, Tagging, Architecture, and Reporting with Hands-On Labs for Faster Skill Bu","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first AI First FinOps playbook that teaches you cloud cost engineering through hands on labs, adaptive learning, and a complete FinOps simulator you can run anywhere.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCloud bills are rising faster than teams can explain them.\u003cbr\u003eBudgets are tightening.\u003cbr\u003eExecutives want clarity.\u003cbr\u003eEngineers want simplicity.\u003cbr\u003eAnd most organizations still do not have the skills to control cloud spend without slowing delivery.\u003cbr\u003eThis book fixes that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAI First FinOps and Cloud Cost Engineering\u003c\/b\u003e is the first fully hands on FinOps guide built for real practitioners.\u003cbr\u003eNot a theory book.\u003cbr\u003eNot a certification cram guide.\u003cbr\u003eA true learning system that turns FinOps into something you can practice, master, and use inside real environments with confidence.\u003cbr\u003eInside this book you will learn FinOps by doing.\u003cbr\u003eYou will build a complete synthetic cloud environment.\u003cbr\u003eYou will load it into your own vector store.\u003cbr\u003eYou will ground an AI model to your dataset so the answers come from \u003ci\u003eyour\u003c\/i\u003e signals, not the open web.\u003cbr\u003eYou will run adaptive labs that change difficulty each time you practice.\u003cbr\u003eYou will use the CLEAR framework to diagnose costs, fix ownership, optimize resources, evaluate architecture, and produce leadership ready reporting.\u003cbr\u003eYou are not reading a book.\u003cbr\u003eYou are building a FinOps simulator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou will learn how to: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Find real cost drivers in complex bills\u003cbr\u003e- Fix tagging and ownership without politics\u003cbr\u003e- Identify waste safely before touching production\u003cbr\u003e- Diagnose architecture issues that silently inflate costs\u003cbr\u003e- Build narratives that leaders trust\u003cbr\u003e- Forecast cloud spend with defensible assumptions\u003cbr\u003e- Run the CLEAR loop end to end in real environments\u003cbr\u003e- Use AI as your cost analyst, tutor, explainer, and training engine\u003cbr\u003e- Move from lab practice to real world FinOps responsibility without fear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou get a complete companion system.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven large synthetic datasets.\u003cbr\u003eJSONL chunks for RAG.\u003cbr\u003eEmbeddings.\u003cbr\u003ePortfolio templates.\u003cbr\u003eSimulation templates.\u003cbr\u003eLab prompts.\u003cbr\u003eA full adaptive learning plan.\u003cbr\u003eAn incident dataset for deep practice.\u003cbr\u003eEverything you need to build capability on your own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy this matters right 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