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AI Governance & Cost Control

AI governance for infrastructure is the set of controls - RBAC, budget limits, audit trails, and compliance policy - that lets AI agents operate infrastructure within safe, attributable boundaries.

Anyone can spin up containers fast. The hard part is making sure agents do not break things. We have seen 500 million dollars in AI credits burned in a single month, entire annual budgets exhausted early, and breaches from over-permissioned AI tools.

AI governance means every agent action is bounded and attributed: who can do what and where (RBAC), how much they can spend (budgets), and a full audit trail exportable to your SIEM - all while meeting SOC 2, DORA, HIPAA, and the frameworks your industry requires.

These guides cover governance, cost control, security architecture, and compliance for AI-driven infrastructure.

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$500 Million in One Month: What Happens When AI Has No Guardrails

A company burned $500M in Claude credits because nobody set a limit. Uber exhausted its 2026 AI budget. Microsoft canceled Claude Code licenses. The problem isn't AI - it's the total absence of governance around how people use it.

May 30, 2026 · 7 min

Shadow IT Is Back - And Vibe Coding Made It 10x Worse

AI coding tools are the new Shadow IT - but instead of rogue Trello boards, they have OAuth access to your code repos, cloud accounts, and production databases. Here's what's already gone wrong, and how platform engineering fixes it.

May 1, 2026

Secret Manager Integration: One Source of Truth for Humans and Agents.

Production secrets should live in one place and stay there, whether your next deployment is triggered by a developer or an AI agent. The Secret Manager integration connects AWS Secrets Manager, AWS SSM, or GCP Secret Manager to Qovery so secrets are referenced, never copied, and enterprise governance holds regardless of who deploys.

Jun 10, 2026

Beyond the spreadsheet: Using GitOps to generate DORA-compliant audit trails.

By adopting GitOps and utilizing management platforms like Qovery, fintech teams can automatically generate DORA-compliant audit trails, transforming regulatory compliance from a manual, time-consuming chore into an automated, native byproduct of their infrastructure.

Mar 26, 2026

Zero-friction DevSecOps: get instant compliance and security in your PaaS pipeline

Shifting security left shouldn't slow you down. Discover how to achieve "Zero-Friction DevSecOps" by automating secrets, compliance, and governance directly within your PaaS pipeline.

Dec 22, 2025

Qovery Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance

Qovery is officially SOC 2 Type II compliant with an Unqualified Opinion. Get the highest assurance of continuously verified security controls for enterprise-grade application deployments and simplify due diligence.

Oct 20, 2025

Kubernetes cost optimization: agentic FinOps for enterprise fleets

The three pillars of Kubernetes spend (Compute, Network, and Storage) compound rapidly at enterprise scale. While manual cost-cutting works for a single cluster, managing 1,000+ clusters requires an agentic FinOps approach. By automating resource right-sizing, Spot instance orchestration, and idle environment shutdowns, organizations can eliminate cloud waste without sacrificing production stability.

Feb 7, 2026

OpenAI Just Proved Our Thesis: Everyone Is a Builder Now. Here's What Comes Next.

OpenAI reports 5M weekly Codex users - 20% non-developers, growing 3x faster. Six role plugins, hosted Sites, zero enterprise governance. The governed runtime is what's missing.

Jun 2, 2026

The Lovable Experience. Enterprise Governance. Your Infrastructure. We Built It.

Introducing the AI Builder Portal - the governed alternative to Lovable and Bolt.new for enterprise. Same one-click builder experience, running on your Kubernetes cluster, under your governance.

May 31, 2026

Don't Ban the Builders - Govern Them

AI tools turned everyone into a builder. Your sales team, your finance team, your CEO - they're all shipping apps now. The answer isn't to ban them. It's to give them a governed platform they actually want to use.

May 23, 2026

Agentic AI infrastructure: moving beyond Copilots to autonomous operations

The shift from AI copilots to autonomous agents is redefining infrastructure requirements. Discover how to build secure, stateful, and compliant Agentic AI systems using Kubernetes, sandboxing, and observability while meeting EU AI Act standards

Apr 9, 2026

GPU orchestration guide: How to auto-scale Kubernetes clusters and slash AI infrastructure costs

To stop GPU costs from destroying SaaS margins, teams must transition from static to consumption-based infrastructure by utilizing Karpenter for dynamic provisioning, maximizing hardware density with NVIDIA MIG, and leveraging Qovery to tie scaling directly to business metrics.

Mar 31, 2026

Inside Qovery’s security architecture: how we secure your cloud & Kubernetes infrastructure

Discover how Qovery bridges the gap between developers and infrastructure with a "security by design" approach. From federated identities and unique encryption keys to real-time audit logs and SOC2 Type 2 certification - see how we protect your data while eliminating vendor lock-in.

Jan 7, 2026

Cut tool sprawl: automate your tech stack with a unified platform

Stop letting tool sprawl drain your engineering resources. Discover how unified automation platforms eliminate configuration drift, close security gaps, and accelerate delivery by consolidating your fragmented DevOps stack.

Dec 21, 2025

DevOps Guide: Automating HIPAA Compliance on Azure and Qovery

Master HIPAA compliance on Azure. Understand the Shared Responsibility Model, the critical role of the BAA, and how to configure Access Control, Encryption, and Networking. See how Qovery automates security controls for continuous compliance.

Nov 17, 2025

AWS HIPAA Compliance: A Comprehensive Guide & Checklist

Learn how to achieve and maintain HIPAA compliance on AWS with this comprehensive guide. Understand the shared responsibility model, essential architectural principles, and a practical checklist to protect PHI and avoid costly compliance violations. Discover how automation can reduce human error and streamline your security posture.

Sep 10, 2025

How To Automatically Save 24 Days of Infrastructure Maintenance per Quarter

Discover how Qovery helps DevOps and SRE teams save up days on infrastructure maintenance by automating updates, ensuring compliance, and freeing your team to focus on innovation and business growth.

Jul 16, 2025

Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies: How to Reduce Cloud Infrastructure Costs

Learn how mid-size companies can dramatically cut cloud infrastructure costs using practical strategies like compute rightsizing, serverless, storage tiering, and automated scaling. This guide also explores how Qovery simplifies and automates cost optimization for growing teams - no full DevOps team required.

Jul 8, 2025
Frequently asked

How do you govern AI agents that deploy infrastructure?

You govern agents at the API boundary, not by trusting the agent. A governed platform enforces RBAC (who and which agent can act, and where), budget and region policies, and a full audit trail attributing every action - so agents operate only within defined limits.

How do you prevent AI agents from causing runaway cloud costs?

Enforce per-environment and per-team budget caps, automatic cleanup of idle resources, and policy controls the agent cannot exceed. Combined with real-time cost visibility, this prevents the runaway-spend scenarios that occur when agents are given ungoverned access.

Speed is easy. Governance is the hard part.

Give agents a governed path to production - RBAC, budgets, and a full audit trail on every operation, on your own infrastructure.