Why your biggest hidden AI cost isn’t GPUs

Joseph Morais serves as a technical champion and data streaming evangelist at Confluent. Before Confluent, Joseph was a senior technical account manager at AWS, helping enterprise customers scale through their cloud journey. Joseph has also worked for Amino Payments, where he focused on Kafka, Apache Hadoop, NGINX, and automation initiatives. He was on Urban Outfitters’ e-commerce operations team, focusing on agile methodology, CI/CD, containerization, public cloud architecture, and infrastructure as code projects.