WNiCF - July 2023 - News

Frank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for July 2023.  A lot of updates this month. Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation.

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July 2023

Data/DBs

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/amazon-document-db-mongo-db-document-compression/ (F)

Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/aws-cost-management-visual-savings-plans-recommendations/ (S)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/auto-account-association-aws-billing-conductor-groups/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/aws-invoice-balance-due-information-invoice-amount-billing-console/  (S)
• GCP - List Prices now available in cost data exports (F)

 -You can now view the list prices associated with all line items charged to your account in Google Cloud Billing standard and detailed export. Use the cost_at_list_price column to view list prices.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export
Review the schema of the Standard cost data export

Cloud Billing Pricing API is now available in preview - (S)

You can now get list prices, as well as account-specific custom prices and discounts for Google Cloud stock keeping units (SKUs) with the Pricing API (preview). You can also use the Pricing API to get additional information about Google Cloud services, such as service-to-SKU mappings, information about SKU groups, SKU group to SKUs mapping, and geo and product taxonomy information.

• Learn about using the API, with example API requests
• Get detailed information in the the API reference

Commitment

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Savings 

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Storage

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-managed-lustre-now-generally-available/ (S)

Instances

• m7i=flex (5% cheaper only!!!) is this the Intel response to cheaper AMD? (F)
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/amazon-ec2-p5-instances-generative-ai-hpc-generally-available/ 
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-instances-c7gd-m7gd-and-r7gd-powered-by-aws-graviton3-processor-with-local-nvme-based-ssd-storage/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/amazon-appstream-2-0-graphics-g5-instances/ (F)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-latest-generation-burstable-vms-bsv2-basv2-and-bpsv2/ (S)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-host-resize/ (S)

Sustainability

• https://www.esgtoday.com/uk-to-create-ifrs-based-sustainability-disclosure-standards/ (S)

Misc/Silly

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/aws-lambda-detects-recursive-loops-lambda-functions/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/aws-public-ip-insights-vpc-ip-address-manager/ (F)
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights/ 
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/microsoft-dev-box-is-now-generally-available/  (S)