WNiCF - December 22 News - Last bits of the year.

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

Transcript

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://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/aws-cost-anomaly-detection-percentage-based-thresholds/ (S)
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/aws-cost-anomaly-detection-account-name-alert-notifications/ (S)
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/using-budgets-automate-cost-controls (F)

Spot

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-ec2-spot-ready-software-products/ (S)

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 

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/aws-compute-optimizer-amazon-ecs-services-aws-fargate/ (F)

Storage

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Instances

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-eks-automated-provisioning-lifecycle-management-windows-containers/ (F)
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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)