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 - 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.
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
Savings
Storage
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
Misc/Silly