WNiCF - April 2023 News

Join Frank and Stephen talking through the latest news from FinOps in April 2023.

A nice mix of AWS, Azure and even a bit of GCP.

Covering topics like new instances, some "free tier" stuff and even ABC (you can find out what that is by listening!).

Also watch out for our next interview with Marit Hughes!

Transcript

April 2023

Data/DBs (F)

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/04/amazon-athena-provisioned-capacity/ - F
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/amazon-emr-eks-vertical-auto-scaling/  - S
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/generally-available-new-burstable-skus-for-azure-database-for-postgresql-flexible-server/ - F

Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories) - S

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/04/aws-billing-conductor-pricing-change/ - S

Commitment

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/using-committed-use-discounts-for-rhel-and-rhel-for-sap - F

Savings 

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/generally-available-azure-kubernetes-service-introduces-two-pricing-tiers-free-and-standard/ - S 

Storage

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/04/aws-backup-support-sap-hana-databases-amazon-ec2/ - F

Instances

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/04/aws-split-cost-allocation-data-amazon-ecs-batch/ - S
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-inf2-instances-for-low-cost-high-performance-generative-ai-inference-are-now-generally-available/- F
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/amazon-ec2-i4g-storage-optimized-instances/ - F
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-new-generalpurpose-vms-dlsv5-and-dldsv5/ -S
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-azure-hx-series-and-hbv4-series-virtual-machines/ - S
• https://cloud.google.com/compute/confidential-vm/docs/about-cvm - New VM types join the confidential compute list (hard to find out which) - S

Sustainability - F

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/coop-reduces-food-waste-with-google-cloud-ai-and-data-cloud - F

Misc/Silly - F

• Aws.frankcontrepois.com - F
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-april-2023/#FinOps - S