What's new in Cloud FinOps?
Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois get together to discuss what's new in the world of cloud when it comes to FinOps. There are two monthly episodes, one where we'll discuss the top stories we've found from this month and a second episode where we bring in a friend of the show to talk to us about a topic of their choosing.
What's new in Cloud FinOps?
WNiCF - June 2023 - News
Based on the audio, it might sound as if Frank is in a small wooden box; you would be almost correct, as the small meeting room I was in is horrible from a sound perspective.
Frank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for June 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.
Data/DBs
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/general-availability-aws-database-migration-service-serverless/ - F
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/amazon-documentdb-5-0-amazon-ec2-t3-medium-r5-instances/ - S
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/amazon-emr-price-allocation-ec2-spot-instances/ - F
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/amazon-timestream-free-trial/ - S
Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/quicksight-standardized-user-level-cost-usage-data/F
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/software-bill-materials-export-capability-amazon-inspector/ - S
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/daily-invoice-consolidation-aws-emea-sarl/ - F
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-June-2023/#Updates - Bunch of new pricing updates on Azure pricing pages - S
- GCP - Use folders and organizations in budgets: When you set up budgets for your Cloud Billing account, you can set the budget's scope to one or more folders or organizations that are linked to your account, in addition to the current options for specific projects and labels. When you create a budget that applies to a folder or organization, the budget also covers future projects that you create in the folder or organization. - S
Commitment
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/commitment-pricing-aws-private-5g/ - F
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-June-2023/#Reservation - RI utlization alerts - S
Savings
Storage
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/aws-trusted-advisor-checks-amazon-efs/ - F
- GCP - Generally available: Hyperdisk Throughput provides cost-effective and throughput-oriented block storage with dynamically configurable capacity and throughput. Hyperdisk volumes are durable network storage devices that your VMs can access, similar to Persistent Disk. For more information, see About Hyperdisk. - S
Instances
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/amazon-ec2-m7a-instances-preview/ - F
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-hbv4-virtual-machines-for-hpc/ - S
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-introducing-ngads-v620-series-vms-optimized-for-cloud-gaming/ - S
Sustainability
Misc/Silly
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/transform/cloud-econonomics-101-measuring-it-infrastructure-investments-roi -S
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/richard-seroter-on-shifting-down-vs-shifting-left - S
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/how-to-build-a-finops-roadmap - S
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/aws-wavelength-manchester-british-telecom/ - F
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/generative-ai-with-large-language-models-new-hands-on-course-by-deeplearning-ai-and-aws/ <- we should do that - S
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/aws-waf-fraud-control-account-creation-prevention-pricing/ - F
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/06/aws-marketplace-transaction-purchase-order-server-products/ - S
