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 - November 2023 - News
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The FinOps Guys - Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois
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Season 4
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Episode 7
Loads and loads of AWS news coming from re:Invent for November. And this month we have Frank having to evacuate the building due to a fire alarm; nothing real, fortunately.
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.
Send you feedback, ideas, invitations or any other thing you want to talk about at: podcast@finopsguys.co.uk
November 2023
Data/DBs
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-aurora-postgresql-optimized-reads/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-redshift-maxrpu-compute-cost-control-redshift-serverless/(F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-redshift-serverless-ai-driven-scaling-optimizations-preview/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-athena-cost-based-optimizer-enhance-query-performance/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-documentdb-i-o-optimized/ (F)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-lower-simplified-pricing-f - (S)
- BQ - The slot estimator now supports project level cost-optimal commitment and autoscale recommendations for on-demand workloads. This feature is now in preview. (S)
Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-cost-explorer-provides-historical-granular-data/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-billing-cost-management-data-exports/ (F) - Talk about legacy/New CUR
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/unified-billing-cost-management-console/ (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/cost-optimization-hub/(S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/cost-usage-dashboard-amazon-quicksight/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-cost-management-appregistry-resource-tags/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-trusted-advisor-new-apis/ (F)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/partnumbers-3/(S)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/export-cost-using-focus/ (S)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-microsoft-copilot-for-azure/ (S)
Commitment
Savings
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-q-optimal-ec2-instance-selection-workload/ (S)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-vm-hibernation/ (S)
Storage
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/optimize-your-storage-costs-for-rarely-accessed-files-with-amazon-efs-archive/(F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/replication-failback-and-increased-iops-are-new-for-amazon-efs/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-cloudwatch-logs-infrequent-access-log-class/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ebs-snapshots-archive-is-now-available-with-aws-backup/ (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-s3-express-one-zone-storage-class/ (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-cloudtrail-lake-pricing-option-optimized-flexible-retention/ (F)
Instances
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-for-new-memory-optimized-aws-graviton4-powered-amazon-ec2-instances-r8g/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-highly-durable-amazon-opensearch-service-clusters-with-30-price-performance-improvement/ (F)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-introducing-ngads-v620-series-vms-optimized-for-gaming-scenarios/ (S)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-new-generation-amd-vms-dav6eav6fav6/ (S)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/preview-azure-confidential-vms-with-nvidia-h100-tensor-core-gpus/ (S)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/generally-available-azure-mv3-medium-memory-mm-virtual-machines/ (S)
- GKE - New inference-focused Cloud Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) v5e machine types are available in GKE. These single-host TPU VMs are designed for inference workloads and contain one, four, or eight TPU v5e chips. These three new TPU v5e machine types (ct5l-hightpu-1t, ct5l-hightpu-4t, and ct5l-hightpu-8t) are currently available in the us-central1-a and europe-west4-b zones (S)
Sustainability
- Interesting ideas from Stephen related to the talk of Werner Vogels at re:Invent
Misc/Silly
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-translate-brevity-translation-output-lengths/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-clean-rooms-configurability-collaboration-payment/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/ec2-image-builder-lifecycle-management-deletion/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-free-tier-usage-getfreetierusage-api/ (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-workspaces-thin-client/ (S)
