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 - 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.
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
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
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
