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.

Transcript

February

Data/DBs

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/point-in-time-recovery-without-impacting-instance-storage (Frank)
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Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-cost-management-updates-july-2019/?WT.mc_id=acm-micflan#labs  (Steve)

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

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/multi-region-google-cloud-storage-to-regional-data-migration (Frank)

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)
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Sustainability

• https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/IT-Sustainability-Think-Tank-Embedding-GreenOps-into-enterprises (Steve)

Misc/Silly

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/microsoft-joins-the-finops-foundation/ (Frank)

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/six-things-you-can-do-with-500-in-google-cloud-credits  (Steve)