WNiCF - February 2024 - News

WNiCF - February  2024 - News

Good amount of news, some sarcastic comments and lot of opinions :) 

• Frank's interview with Steph
• FinOps X website

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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Transcript

Feb News

Instances/Compute

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/02/machine-learning-model-training-amazon-sagemaker-s3-express-one-zone/ F
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/02/aws-fargate-price-reduction-windows-containers-ecs/ F
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/understanding-kubernetes-dynamic-resource-scaling-and-cpu-boost S

Data/DBs

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/symphony-connects-financial-markets-with-bigtable S
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/02/amazon-neptune-io-optimized/F
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Storage

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/02/amazon-fsx-openzfs-additional-iops/  F

Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)

• Azure Cost Management Labs : Recommendations view  
  View a summary of cost recommendations that help you optimize your Azure resources in the cost analysis preview. You can opt in using the Try preview menu.   S
• View granular cost data from Cloud Storage usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery S
  • You can now view granular Cloud Storage bucket-level cost data in the Cloud Billing Detailed cost export. Use the resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed Cloud Storage bucket usage.
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Commitment

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/asaesavingsplan/ S
• Azure - We’ve integrated Azure Savings Plan into the Azure Container Apps service, both on its pricing page and calculator. S
• GCP - When you purchase a resource-based commitment for GPUs, Local SSD disks, or both, you can attach any of your existing on-demand or auto-created future reservations to that commitment. By attaching existing reservations, you can reserve resources in advance and minimize resource unavailability issues when you purchase commitments for GPU or Local SSD disk resources. S
  • For more information, see Purchase commitments with attached reservations.

Pricing 

• We’ve updated the pricing of recently generally available services and features in Azure, including Microsoft Azure Chaos Studio, the Microsoft Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance feature, Azure Communication’s Job router feature, and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage’s Cold tier. S
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/02/amazon-rds-sql-server-prices-r5-r6i-standard-osaka/ F

Savings 

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/02/aws-free-tier-750-hours-free-public-ipv4-addresses/ F

FinOps (General)

• State of FinOps
• FinOps X, FinOps London Community Summit 18th April
• Meetups: May 24 Leeds June 24 Manchester July 24 Birmingham September 24 London October 24 Belfast
• Keys to AWS Optimization

Sustainability

• GCP - Beginning with the release of January 2024 data, Google Cloud Carbon Footprint will adopt a biannual methodology refresh schedule, with updates planned for January and July data releases each year:

Google Carbon Footprint Details (Expand when discussing).

For the January 2024 data release (in mid-February 2024), we have made the updates below and updated carbon model to version 10:

Data accuracy:

• Improve internal machine-level power readings for storage machines. Update allocation of energy from some machines, improving Bigtable data accuracy.
• Further improve mapping between Google Cloud services and internal resource use, particularly for a few Networking SKUs.
• Improve Google Cloud region defaults and coverage. location.location/location.region with former NULL values are defined as global, and we improved data for the europe multiregion.

Corporate data input refresh:

• Update Scope 1/3 apportionment factors using latest Google company-wide data from 2023 Google Environmental Report. See the Non-electricity emission sources section of methodology document on how we apply these apportionment factors.

Service coverage:

• Reintroduce App Engine and GKE Enterprise/GDC services (formerly Anthos/GDC-V), as internal data mappings have been improved.
• Remove Looker, Apigee, Chronicle, and AppSheet from covered services of Carbon Footprint, due to potential mis-attribution of carbon to these services. We are actively investigating and working on the improvements. Once internal data mapping improves for a service, we plan to add it back.
• Clouded II released Clouded, A Documentary Series uncovering the truth about cloud | CLOUDED.TV

Misc/Silly

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/full-session-catalog-now-live-for-google-cloud-next24 S - Foundation will be there, in Vegas and in April

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/five-keys-to-building-a-successful-cloud-finops-team S