WNiCF - October 2023 - News

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Frank and Stephen review the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for October 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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October 2023

Data/DBs

• (FC) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/amazon-memorydb-graviton3-based-r7g-nodes/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/amazon-relational-database-service-dedicated-log-volume/ could increase your costs
• (SO) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-storage-autogrow-online[…]-scaling-for-azure-database-for-postgresql-flexible-server/

Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)

• (FC) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/aws-trusted-advisor-64-checks-aws-config/
• Budgets for project users is now Generally Available

Project users such as Project Owners, Project Editors, and Project Viewers in Google Cloud can now create budgets and stay on top of their cloud costs, without needing additional permissions to access Cloud Billing accounts. Budgets for project users enables project users to take ownership of their costs, plan for the spend in the projects that they own, and proactively manage cost exceptions.

You can now assign custom roles to users who can create, modify and delete single-project budgets for the projects they have access to.

Project users can use the Google Cloud console or the Cloud Billing Budget API to manage budgets for projects.

• (SO)Control access to single-project budgets

If you are a billing account-level user and are creating a budget for a single project, you can now prevent project users such as Project Owners and Project Editors from making changes to the budget. This prevents inadvertent changes to budgets that you might be tracking at the Cloud Billing account level.

Learn more about creating Google Cloud budgets.

• View granular cost data from Dataflow usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

You can now view granular Dataflow cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed Dataflow usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

• View granular cost data from BigQuery usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

View granular cost data from BigQuery in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery You can now view granular BigQuery cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your BigQuery Dataset and Jobs costs.

Commitment

• (F) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/amazon-athena-one-hour-reservations-provisioned-capacity/
  • [OLD April] Today, AWS announced Provisioned Capacity for Amazon Athena, a new feature that allows you to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments. Provisioned Capacity enables you to allocate dedicated compute to mission-critical queries and control workload performance characteristics such as query concurrency and cost. You can add capacity at any time, and pay only for the amount of capacity you specify and time it is active in your account.
• (SO) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/the-availability-of-azure-compute-reservations-exchanges-extended-until-at-least-july-1st-2024/
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/generally-available-azure-container-apps-savings-plan-support/
• Generally available: C3 VMs support Compute Engine flexible committed use discounts (CUDs). Compute Engine flexible CUDs allow you to commit to a minimum hourly spend amount and use vCPUs and/or memory in any of the projects within your Cloud Billing account, across any region, and belonging to any eligible machine types. Learn more about Compute Engine Flexible CUDs and how to purchase flexible commitments.

Savings 

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Storage

• (SO) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-azure-netapp-files-standard-storage-with-cool-access/

Instances

• (FC) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/compute-optimized-amazon-ec2-c7a-instances/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/memory-optimized-amazon-ec2-r7a-bare-metal-instances/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-seventh-generation-memory-optimized-amazon-ec2-instances-r7i/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/general-availability-amazon-ec2-m2-mac-instances-mac-os/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/amazon-ec2-i4i-two-new-sizes/
• (SO )Generally available: c3d-standard, c3d-highmem, c3d-highcpu, and c3d-standard-lssd machine types for general-purpose C3D VMs are generally available.

Sustainability

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Misc/Silly

• (FC) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/aws-marketplace-enhanced-private-offer-user-experience-sellers/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/amazon-ec2-hibernate-supports-more-operating-systems/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/aws-global-accelerator-edge-location-nigeria/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/aws-control-tower-proactive-controls-aws-security-hub-detective-controls/ helping control could help save
• (SO) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/ga-azure-dedicated-host-resize/

The BigQuery Data Transfer Service can now transfer data from Azure Blob Storage into BigQuery. This feature is now generally available (GA).