What's new in Cloud FinOps?
Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois get together to discuss what's new in the world of cloud when it comes to FinOps. There are two monthly episodes, one where we'll discuss the top stories we've found from this month and a second episode where we bring in a friend of the show to talk to us about a topic of their choosing.
What's new in Cloud FinOps?
WNiCF - December 22 News - Last bits of the year.
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A quick run through of the new FinOps updates from December, completing the updates for 2022.
Stephen and Frank go through the key topics as usual:
Data/DBs
Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)
Commitment
Savings
Storage
Instances
Misc/Silly
December 2022
Data/DBs
- Some DB changes that provide more memory so help reduce query time
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-relational-database-service-2iedn-instances-mysql-postgresql/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-rds-optimized-writes-r6g-r6gd-instances/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-rds-oracle-supports-x2idn-x2iedn-x2iezn-instances/ (F)
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/dataproc-job-optimization-how-to-guide (S)
Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/global-free-tier-pricing-rules-aws-billing-conductor/ (F)
- Cost anomaly detection finally has percentage thresholds so you don’t need to forecast numbers, and it now adds much better things to the alerts like account name! (S)
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/using-budgets-automate-cost-controls (F)
Spot
Commitment
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/aws-cost-management-1-click-experience-refresh-savings-plans-recommendations/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-memorydb-redis-reserved-nodes/ (S)
Savings
Storage
Instances
Misc/Silly
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-ec2-calculator-dedicated-instance-pricing/ (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/aws-pricing-calculator-bulk-estimation-amazon-ec2-instances/ (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/aws-marketplace-free-trials-saas-usage-based-pricing-products/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-sagemaker-automatic-model-tuning-higher-limits-categorical-hyperparameters/ (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-braket-adjoint-gradient-computation-runtime-cost-savings/ (F)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-build-a-business-case-with-azure-migrate/ (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/aws-license-manager-commercial-linux-subscriptions-discovery-governance/ (F)
