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 - February News - 2023
Stephen and Frank dive into the latest news from FinOps in February, as well as a bit of a discussion on Azures FX changes that have increased customers pricing.
We also look at the changes to Azure RIs.
Actually as a whole there's a lot less AWS on this episode and quite a lot more Azure and GCP! Well worth a listen.
February
Data/DBs
Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)
Commitment
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/introducing-flexible-new-cloud-services-and-pricing (Frank)
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/reservation-exchange-policy-changes (Steve)
Savings and pricing
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/generally-available-azure-kubernetes-service-introduces-two-pricing-tiers-free-and-standard/ (Frank)
- https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2023/01/05/consistent-global-pricing-for-the-microsoft-cloud/ (Steve)
- https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/t5/General-Updates/Microsoft-FX-rate-adjustments-and-upcoming-security-changes-for/td-p/85129 (Steve)
Storage
Instances
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/02/amazon-ec2-m7g-r7g-instances/ (Steve)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/02/amazon-ec2-c7g-metal-instances-available/ (Steve)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-new-generalpurpose-vms-dlsv5-and-dldsv5/ (Frank)
Sustainability
Misc/Silly
