Episode 11 - September Cloud FinOps News

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Steve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for September! This episode covers the following topics: 

1. Amazon Redshift extends Automatic Table Optimization to support Column Compression Encoding
2. AWS Cost Categories introduces Split Charge rules for allocation of shared costs
3. Amazon MSK adds metrics for increased visibility of capacity
4. Amazon Textract Updates: Up to 32% Price Reduction in 8 AWS Regions and Up to 50% Reduction in Asynchronous Job Processing Times
5. Amazon Elastic File System introduces Intelligent-Tiering to automatically optimize storage costs
6. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering – Improved Cost Optimizations for Short-Lived and Small Objects
7. General availability: Azure Files supports storage capacity reservations for premium, hot, and cool tiers
8. Public preview: Scale-down mode in AKS
9. General availability: Lower capacity reservation tier for Azure Monitor dedicated clusters
10.  AWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine type 
11. Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases
12. Now auto-terminate idle EMR clusters to lower cost

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