Azure Cobalt 200 Arm VMs and NC RTX PRO Blackwell VMs — New Compute Options for AI and Cost Optimization
New Azure compute options: Cobalt 200 Arm VMs and NC RTX PRO Blackwell GPU VMs.
Azure Landing Zone Cost Optimization — Right-Sizing Governance Without Overspending
A fact-checked playbook for right-sizing Azure landing zone hub services — firewall SKUs, VPN gateways, Log Analytics commitment tiers — with real Malaysia West pricing.
Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash GA, and the LLM Cost-Performance Frontier
The LLM market split into two clear tiers in mid-2026: frontier reasoning models and high-throughput workhorses. Here's how Malaysian enterprises should pick the right one for each workload.
LLM Inference Optimization — Quantization, Speculative Decoding, and the 10x Cost Reduction Playbook
80% of AI GPU spend is now inference, not training. Here's the layered optimization playbook — quantization, KV cache compression, continuous batching, speculative decoding, and prompt caching — that delivers 10x cost reductions for Malaysian enterprises.
FinOps for AI Agents: The Cost Optimization Playbook That Separates Viable From Vanity Projects
Most agent pilots fail on cost, not capability. Practical cost optimization playbook for production AI agents.