Article: InfoQ Cloud and DevOps Trends Report - 2026
InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ are discussing the current trends in the domain of Cloud and DevOps as part of the process of creating our annual 2026 trends report. By Steef-Jan Wiggers, Matt Saunders, Shweta Vohra, Daniel Bryant, Mark Silvester
InfoQ's 2026 Cloud and DevOps Trends Report outlines significant innovations in AI infrastructure, FinOps for cloud, and digital sovereignty. AI infrastructure is transitioning from individual assistants to centrally governed platforms with centralized gateways, model catalogs, and provisioned team workspaces. This hub-spoke model aims to control costs, ensure sovereignty, and regulate model usage.
However, the practical application of this model remains unclear. FinOps, a mature discipline for managing cloud costs, is encountering new challenges as AI spending surges. Token consumption, a major operational expense, lacks clear correlation with outcomes, making optimization difficult. The FinOps Foundation has established the Tokenomics Foundation to address this issue.
Digital sovereignty, once a policy discussion, is now an architectural consideration, particularly in Europe. Organizations are grappling with the challenge of keeping data and models within regional boundaries due to their dependency on American platforms and SaaS. While European providers offer IaaS and storage services, platform and SaaS layers remain lacking.
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