Articles from Kion

Kion, a leading automated CloudOps and FinOps platform for multicloud, today announced that the Kion platform is now available for Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) customers via the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Marketplace. The AWS Marketplace provides U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) customers with secure, reliable, and mission-critical cloud services via JWCC. Kion is one of the first vendors to leverage the AWS Marketplace as a procurement vehicle when delivering to DoD, lowering acquisition barriers and expediting adoption across multiple cloud environments.

Kion, the leading automated CloudOps and FinOps platform for multicloud, announced the appointment of Brian Wilson as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Wilson will drive Kion’s next phase of growth in the cloud operations (CloudOps) market by accelerating the company’s vision for FinOps+, which addresses key priorities for governance and policy, cloud waste reduction and automation. He will succeed founder Brian Price, who will remain with the company as Chief Product Officer (CPO) where he will focus on driving innovation and product vision. Wilson is a seasoned SaaS leader with a track record of guiding companies through market expansion, building high-impact partnerships, and leveraging AI to drive growth and go-to-market innovation.

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.

FinOps X — Kion, the leading automated CloudOps platform for multicloud, today announced the release of Kion version 3.13 alongside a new partnership with ProsperOps, a leading FinOps optimization platform. Through the partnership with ProsperOps and new Kion FinOps governance platform upgrades, Kion helps organizations simplify spend and budgets for faster decision making, apply usage policies to prevent cloud waste and automate FinOps governance and policy to drive efficiency across multicloud infrastructure.

Kion, the leading automated CloudOps platform for multicloud, today announced it has been named as an IDC Innovator in the report: IDC Innovators: FinOps and Cloud Cost Transparency, 2025 (Doc number # US52809425, January 2025). According to the report, “Kion was chosen as an innovator in the marketplace because of its commitment to supporting the growing and evolving cloud market.” The report notes Kion’s key differentiators as; comprehensive cloud governance to help companies rapidly mature their FinOps teams, visibility and advanced automation and customer service.

Kion, a leading automated CloudOps platform for multicloud, today announced that it listed the Kion platform in the AWS Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community (ICMP). ICMP is a curated digital catalog from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easy to discover, purchase, and deploy software packages and applications from vendors that specialize in supporting government customers.

AWS re:Invent – Kion, the leading automated CloudOps platform for multicloud, will be showcasing its vision for the integration of FinOps and CloudOps practices to deliver more efficient, secure, and cost-effective cloud operations at AWS re:Invent 2024. With the rise of AI and multicloud expansion, the future of FinOps is going to require more governance related efforts to help organizations maintain control of spend and automate cloud operations efforts. Kion aims to promote a culture of innovation through increased collaboration of FinOps and CloudOps teams and processes to deliver on requirements for increased visibility, automated policies, and financial enforcements.

EDUCAUSE Annual Conference – Kion, the leading automated CloudOps platform for multicloud, today announced the availability of Kion version 3.11, introducing new features for Identity and Access Management (IAM), compliance automation, and FinOps. These new capabilities are advantageous for organizations, including higher education institutions, looking to implement policy-based controls and enforcements to better manage and automate their multicloud infrastructure. Along with showcasing these new capabilities at EDUCAUSE, the company will also be presenting a session with Northwestern University and Texas A&M University on creating a culture of accountability using a “governance by default” approach to cloud operations.

FinOps X – Kion, the leading automated CloudOps platform for multicloud, today announced support for the FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS) as well as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), helping customers to better optimize and operate cloud spend across multicloud infrastructure. Kion is supporting the recently announced FOCUS v1.0 from the FinOps Foundation, an open-source specification designed to normalize cost and usage billing data across cloud providers. Kion is also providing support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, in addition to existing capabilities for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud (GCP). This new support broadens Kion’s financial management and operations capabilities to further pair FinOps with CloudOps; helping cloud teams better operate multicloud through policy-based governance and automation.

AWS re:Inforce--Kion, the leading automated CloudOps platform for multicloud, today announced a new identity and access management (IAM) capability that discovers, manages, and remediates overprivileged administrators across an organization’s cloud infrastructure. Kion’s Admin Audit feature provides a panoramic view of all cloud admins across an organization’s hundreds, sometimes thousands, of cloud accounts, enabling security and CloudOps teams to better secure and govern administrative access by default. This new IAM capability is part of the company’s efforts to help users improve cloud visibility and implement the guardrails necessary to scale secure, compliant, and well-architected clouds.

Kion, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, announced today that it will partner with the University of Oregon to present insights into the strategic adoption of cloud in higher ed at EDUCAUSE 2023. The session will outline the University of Oregon’s mission-driven approach to multi-cloud infrastructure adoption in support of its research and education initiatives. The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is the premier higher ed IT event held on October 9-12, 2023 in Chicago, IL. Randy Shore, VP of Delivery and Support at Kion will be joined by Christy Long, Associate CIO for Technology Infrastructure at the University of Oregon.

Kion, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, today announced the appointment of Justin Bartinoski as Senior Vice President of Marketing. With more than two decades of technology experience, Bartinoski has a track record of building brand recognition, demand engines and customer-centric marketing organizations. In this role, Bartinoski will be responsible for accelerating market expansion and adoption of the company’s cloud operations platform within both commercial and public sector markets.

Kion, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, announced today that the company was named a 2023 SIIA CODiE Award winner in both the Best Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solution and Best Customer Success Team of the Year categories. Kion was one of four finalists in the Customer Success Team of the Year category and is being recognized as a leader in IAM by the CODiE Awards for the second consecutive year. The SIIA CODiE Awards, widely recognized as the premier awards program honoring the software and information industries, are organized by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the leading trade association representing software, education, media, and digital content industries. Recognized as a benchmark of excellence, CODiE award recipients represent the finest offerings in software, information, and business technology.

Kion, a leading cloud enablement solution provider, announced today that it has been accepted into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners who provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. The program will empower Kion to further enhance customer outcomes and assure mutual commitment from AWS and partners.

Kion, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, achieved monumental growth in 2022, positioning the company for accelerated innovation and expansion in 2023. Throughout 2022, Kion introduced new features within its cloud enablement software, appointed new leadership, and received notable industry recognitions. As a result, the company is positioned to continue a strong growth trajectory in 2023.

Kion, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, today announced that Randy Shore, VP of Delivery and Support at Kion, will speak at EDUCAUSE 2022. The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is the premier higher ed IT event and will be held on October 25-28, 2022 in Denver. Shore will be joined by Tim Champ, Assistant Director of Research and Enterprise Computing, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Andrew Marcontell, Executive Director of Solutions Engineering, from Texas A&M University.

Kion, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, today announced its addition to the Internet2 community through the successful completion of the NET+ program service evaluation. Kion was vetted by over 10 higher education institutions that found the company to be well positioned to satisfy the cloud services needs of the research and education community. Through this collaboration with Internet2, Kion will be able to provide its leading cloud enablement solution to more cloud-first research and education organizations, including Internet2’s 400+ member institutions, offering the added benefits of streamlined procurement, evaluation documentation, and preferred pricing.

Kion, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH). This partnership will join Kion’s cloud enablement solution with Booz Allen’s technology transformation and managed services expertise to provide government clients with complete cloud management and governance capabilities.

Kion, a leading cloud enablement solution provider, today announced that the company has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency. This designation recognizes that Kion has demonstrated proven technology that helps customers achieve their cloud security goals.

Kion, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, today announced that the Kion platform was named a 2022 SIIA CODiE Award winner in the Identity and Access Management category. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the long-running, premier awards program for software and information industries produced by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for software, education, media and digital content industries. CODiE award winners represent the best products, technologies and services in software, information and business technology.

Kion, a leading cloud enablement solution provider, today announced that the company has been recognized as an Authority to Operate (ATO) on AWS Partner, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) program that helps AWS partners meet their customers’ authorization needs, whether it be architecting, configuring, deploying, or integrating tools and controls. Kion is collaborating with Communications Training Analysis Corporation (CTAC) to advance a US government agency’s ATO on AWS project. Kion’s cloud enablement solution simplifies cloud management and governance activities, empowering organizations to confidently provision accounts, maintain financial control, and ensure compliance.

Kion, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, today announced the expansion of their leadership team through the appointment of Brad Herold as Senior Vice President of Sales. At Kion, Herold will be responsible for further building out the sales and partner organization to propel growth in the commercial and public sector markets.

cloudtamer.io, the leading cloud enablement solution provider, today announced its rebrand to Kion. This rebranding comes with a major update to its platform, Kion 3.0. These new features and user enhancements go beyond baseline cloud governance and management, enabling organizations to move farther, faster on their cloud journey and attain the full value of the cloud.