WNiCF - December 2023 - News

Last episode of the year. And for possibly the first time ever we have a lot of Google news and a group of sustainability articles! 

The FinOps Guys are Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois and we can be contacted at podcast@finopsguys.co.uk

PS: we are still thinking (vaguely) about a website.

Transcript

December 2023

Data/DBs

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-free-sql-managed-instance/ S
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/benchmarking-spanner-for-key-value-workloads S

Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/12/aws-billing-conductor-margin-analysis-reports-services/ F
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/12/amazon-monitron-cost-visibility-project-site-level/ F
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/12/amazon-connect-granular-billing/ F
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/akscostviews/ S

Commitment

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Savings 

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/12/aws-lambda-functions-scale-up/ this is enabled by default and might cause unexpected increases F
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/12/ec2-hibernate-c7a-c7i-r7a-r7i-r7iz-instances/F
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-dynamic-workload-scheduler S

Storage

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Instances/Compute

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/maximizing-gke-discounts-kubernetes-cost-optimization-strategies S
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-cloud-tpu-v5p-and-ai-hypercomputer S

Sustainability

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/cop28-how-technology-can-drive-climate-solutions S
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/climate-as-a-software-product-kpi S
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/cop28-how-to-decarbonize-your-google-cloud-carbon-footprint S
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/cop28-how-google-reduces-energy-consumption-with-mcloud S
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/cop28-artificial-intelligence-accelerates-auto-industrys-green-shift S
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/cop28-how-ai-is-enabling-sustainable-investments-in-the-finance-sector S

Misc/Silly

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/12/cost-anomaly-detection-cloudformation-region-support/F
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/thoughts-on-forecasting-cloud-costs S
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/finops-sketchnote-3-cost-and-value-optimization-on-google-cloud S
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/building-your-team-the-cloud-finops-personas-your-business-needs S