If you’re trying to make sense of your AI token bill, you’re not alone. At the FinOps Foundation conference in San Diego earlier this year, a phrase came up that many of us hadn’t heard before: Tokenomics. Token + Economics. The Foundation didn’t just mention it in passing. They announced it as a whole new domain under the Linux Foundation, signaling that managing AI costs is now as critical as managing your cloud infrastructure costs.
Following that announcement, customers across the world started asking the same question: What should our tokenomics strategy be?
Tokens are the currency models work in. Every model takes tokens as input and produces tokens as output, and those tokens can come from anywhere: a person typing a prompt, an application making a call, or another AI agent talking to your model through an MCP server. In this blog, we focus on the tokens generated by AI coding tools and AI solutions. If you’re a FinOps practitioner trying to…
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/getting-started-with-tokenomics-on-aws/
