FinOps+ inspired release empowers CloudOps teams to leverage AI to reduce complexity and minimize manual work

Kion, the leading automated CloudOps and FinOps platform for multicloud, announced the general availability of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, connecting artificial intelligence (AI) assistants directly to Kion environments. Kion has also unveiled version 3.14, a FinOps+ inspired release that has enhanced operational visibility and upgraded cost forecasting and management tooling for beyond public cloud.

There is a growing demand for intelligent decisions to be made around cloud costs as organizations are faced with increasingly complex cloud bills and procurement arrangements. The rise of AI assistants has demonstrated how intuitive, responsive systems can reduce friction, enhance productivity and deliver immediate value. With the launch of the MCP, Kion’s API can be integrated with powerful AI models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, enabling customers to achieve intelligent access to real-time data and actions that support varied use cases, from compliance to financial. MCP retrieves and analyzes data, such as reporting on cloud spend across departments, summarizing resources operating with under- or over-utilized budgets, identifying users with access to an account, and surfacing patterns across compliance findings. It can also be used to take swift action, allowing users to delegate common tasks to AI assistants, such as creating and editing budgets, allocating funds to cloud resources or organizing your cloud infrastructure.

“Most of my day is spent working with customers and prospects. These cloud architects or FinOps practitioners are at various stages of their cloud journeys, but there is a common thread among them all. The consensus is that organizations want to be able to connect with a subject matter expert to ask questions, lean on for support when issues pop up and help make sense of all the powerful data spread across cloud accounts,” said Randy Shore, Chief Customer Officer at Kion. “We designed our MCP to do exactly that: act as a cloud advisor that is available any time to anyone. This is the next capability in our platform that is enabling our customers to mature and scale their cloud footprint with speed and confidence.”

In alignment with the FinOps Foundation’s Cloud+ Scope, Kion has released version 3.14, empowering organizations to more efficiently manage cloud operations and accelerate value by unifying public cloud, private cloud, and SaaS spend into a single source of truth. New features include:

• Custom Accounts: Normalizes non-CSP billing data, consolidating spend for unified visibility, attribution, reporting, budgeting, and enforcement.
• Forecasting 2.0: A next generation forecasting engine that builds highly accurate spend projections, enabling users to customize report views to support planning and decision-making.
• CloudPulse: Operational dashboard for CloudFormation Templates (CFTs), unifying deployment visibility, template status, errors, and changes for faster issue response across all of your cloud accounts.
• Service Categories: Cross-cloud cost reporting by macro categories (Compute, Storage, Networking) for executive reviews and comparisons.

“Every year the FinOps Foundation surveys organizations to understand what their priorities are in a given year. Recent results highlight that there is an increase in the number of organizations seeking ways to manage costs outside of just public cloud,” said Tatum Tummins, Senior Product Manager at Kion. “Our FinOps+ approach was designed to be proactive and holistic, bridging the gap between FinOps and operational excellence. Centralizing all cost management, whether public, private or SaaS, allows teams to utilize Kion’s powerful capabilities to identify and enforce financial and operational policy with automation at scale.”

Kion’s MCP server is open-source and available today within a GitHub repository. Expanded in-app support and new feature rollouts will continue through the rest of the calendar year. For current customers, MCP support is available now, and it will be supported back to version 3.12.

To see a sneak peek of Kion’s MCP server and get an overview of Kion’s approach to FinOps+, access the on-demand webinar FinOps+: A new Era of Accelerating Value.

About Kion

Kion automates CloudOps with a single platform providing policy-based FinOps, identity, and compliance for multicloud infrastructure. Kion helps organizations achieve ‘governance by default’ through improved visibility, automation, guardrails, and guidance across multicloud environments. This helps enterprises reduce complexity, eliminate chaos, and minimize manual work so they can innovate faster with less risk. Wherever they are on their cloud journey, Kion empowers organizations to confidently provision accounts, maintain financial control, and ensure compliance with security regulations. Kion serves leading commercial, higher education, and government agencies including Indeed, Verizon, NASA, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Learn more at https://kion.io.

View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250930424577/en/