The earliest adopters of AWS and Azure celebrated the cloud for its elasticity — the ability to scale up or down instantly based on demand. But that same elasticity has made cost governance slippery.

Most of today’s operational models were built for stability and predictability. Agentic AI doesn’t play by those rules.

“If you’ve heard of minimalist design, it’s the opposite,” Hopp says of maximalism. Maximalist interiors often emulate the richer parts of life. It’s a design style rooted in a more-is-more philosophy ...