Inference Economy: From Shadow to Spotlight
The rapid adoption of AI workloads into core applications and internal operational workflows introduces major governance and financial challenges. These include unmonitored compute consumption, fragmented provider tooling, and spiraling "Shadow AI" expenses. An organization that doesn't u nderstand its AI usage granularly enough is at serious risk of efficiency loss and unchecked operational costs. They need a Cloud Management Platform not only to understand "classic" service utilization, but also to provide real-time visibility into token usage and GPU utilization. To meet these modern demands, Maestro is evolving into an Infrastructure Orchestrator and Platform Engineering Hub built specifically to govern the emerging "Neocloud" reality (according to the roadmap we shared earlier). With the new capabilities, Maestro extends its FinOps, security, and orchestration engines directly to LLM usage by applying two new approaches: Treating a cus...