// Posts tagged: cloud-native

The Linux Foundation just launched the Tokenomics Foundation to extend FOCUS — the FinOps billing spec that normalized cloud cost data — into token-based AI spend. It's the cloud-native parallel playing out again, except this time every knowledge worker who touches an agent is about to become a cost center. Here's what FOCUS 1.4 actually standardizes, what it still can't see on self-hosted infrastructure, and why we're going to try to run it on a homelab anyway.

Anthropic and AWS are both, underneath everything else, infrastructure providers renting out specialized compute. But the sharper parallel is behavioral — both built a thriving ecosystem, then started eating pieces of it. Claude Design blindsiding Figma and Canva looks a lot like AWS's Elasticsearch moment, except it's happening at a pace AWS never approached, and one layer higher up the stack.

At a C-suite roundtable in Palo Alto last week, ten-plus executives from a mix of gaming platforms, enterprise systems providers, job sites, and other Bay Area titans landed on the same analogy without being prompted: we've seen this before. The lift-and-shift era of AI is already here. The native era — where you redesign workflows from scratch for agents, not humans — is what comes next.