What's new in Cloud FinOps?

Send us a textWe're joined by our good friend Tom Cross at Air Lingus, who talks to us about the challenges of FinOps in reality.  Tom helps us talk through the challenges of trying to keep FinOps in mind during the migration and why it so easily can drop down the agenda.This is a slightly different episode where we very informally talk about the realities of the job!We hope you enjoy!

Send us a textThis month Erik Carlin of ProsperOps joins Steve and Frank in discussing metrics for FinOps, specifically focussing on Effective Savings Rate (ESR).  With a history of how it came about as well as where to find more information their to support the community, Erik shows his wealth of knowledge in the FinOps world.

Send us a textA quick run through of the new FinOps updates from December, completing the updates for 2022.Stephen and Frank go through the key topics as usual:Data/DBsVisibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)CommitmentSavings StorageInstancesMisc/Silly

Send us a textFrank and Steve lament on trips to Vegas over the years, with Frank going to this year's Re:invent again in person.  We discuss our favourite bits of news (which was quite a lot) and you may notice that while in the Keynotes Sustainability was discussed a lot, not much comes across in the latest releases. We even have updates from Steve's favourite AWS service he'll never use and a lot more instance types than we can shake a stick at!Thanks for listening and please have a wonderful end of 2022!

Send us a textIn our latest news episode, we round up everything that's happened outside of Re:invent in November (Special Re:invent Episode to follow).  We also discuss some changes to the format, our new website (yet to launch) and our ongoing aim to share our learning and research. Please see Transcript for list of all of the articles used this month.

Send us a textOur friend Mark Butcher joins Frank and Steve on a very fun episode discussing the incredibly important topic of sustainability.  We cover topics such as:What do the terms mean?How do you get started?How good are the tools?

Send us a textFrank and Stephen delve into all the FinOps related news and releases of October, covering a wide variety of topics and blogs.They then dig into their favourite releases from Microsoft Ignite in and out of the FinOps world.

Send us a textFrank and Stephen are joined by their friend Rob Martin, Director of Learning from the FinOps foundation.We talk about how to get into FinOps, what paths might be suitable based on your background and all of the wonderful resources available from the FinOp Foundation.We talk about our own education journeys with FinOps and how it's still such an exciting time to get involved!

Send us a textFrank and Steve take time between interviews to go through the latest news from September.This includes Azure's new Savings Plans where we cover:What they are.How they work.What are the gotchya's?as well as a bit about why they exist.Next episode will be a chat with Rob Martin about FinOps education, released in the next week.

Send us a textToday Frank and Steve are joined by TJ (Anthony Johnson), Cloud Business Manager at Box.  TJ talks to us about the new working group he's launched as part of the FinOps Foundation, Social Aspects of FinOps, as well as walking us through his journey and experiences to date.  We also briefly touch on Unit Economics which TJ has promised to come and do another episode on. As part of the relaunch of the Podcast under "The FinOps Guys", we'll now do two types of episodes, ones covering the news that listeners are used to, and by popular demand, special guest episodes.  Stay tuned for more of both types of episodes coming up!