What's new in Cloud FinOps?

Send us a textIn this episode, Steve and Frank sit down and talk to the founder of Kubecost, Web Brown to discuss cloud FinOps. Webb explains how Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes, helping you continuously reduce your cloud costs. Webb answers all of Steve and Frank’s questions on how Kubecost’s solution could be beneficial for our listeners.To find out more about Cloud FinOps, visit our website here.

Send us a textWe discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in March 2022. We also highlight some recent Cloud FinOps trends.Click here to learn more about Cloud FinOps

Send us a textWe discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in February 2022. We also highlight some recent Cloud FinOps articles and pull out some key industry trends. Click here to learn more about Cloud FinOps

Send us a textStephen Old and Frank Contrepois are back to discuss the latest Cloud FinOps news in their first podcast of 2022! They highlight the newest releases from the major cloud providers, share tips and tricks on how to save more money on cloud and discuss how the definition of FinOps has changed over time.  Click here to learn more about cloud FinOps. 

Send us a textSteve and Frank have even more announcements to share with you from AWS re:Invent 2021 so decided to record a second episode. There are many exciting updates that will help you to maximise your AWS budget including:Enhanced Amazon S3 Integration for Amazon FSx for LustreAmazon S3 Glacier is the Best Place to Archive Your Data – Introducing the S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Storage ClassRecycle Bin for EBS SnapshotsAmazon EBS Snapshots ArchiveIntroducing Amazon MSK Serverless in public previewIntroducing Amazon EMR Serverless in previewIntroducing Amazon Redshift Serverless – Run Analytics At Any Scale Without Having to Manage Data Warehouse InfrastructureAnnouncing Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth PlusAnnouncing preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances Now in Preview – Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, a Free Service to Learn and Experiment with MLNew DynamoDB Table Class – Save Up To 60% in Your DynamoDB CostsVisit our website to find out more about cloud FinOps.

Send us a textWe share the latest cloud FinOps announcements from AWS re:Invent! There were many announcements to choose from, but the topics we've chosen to focus on will help you to save the most money on AWS: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand – Stream Data at Scale Without Managing CapacityAWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere to Deploy Your Kubernetes Cluster in Any EnvironmentStorage-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (Im4gn and Is4gen) Powered by AWS Graviton2 ProcessorsAWS Outposts Servers in Two Form FactorsJoin the Preview – Amazon EC2 C7g Instances Powered by New AWS Graviton3 ProcessorsAmazon EC2 M6a Instances Powered By 3rd Gen AMD EPYC ProcessorsAmazon EC2 G5g Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors and NVIDIA T4G Tensor Core GPUsAWS Compute Optimizer – Resource Efficiency Metrics to Estimate Savings Opportunities and Performance RisksAWS Compute Optimizer – Enhanced Infrastructure Metrics to Extend the Look-Back Period to Three MonthsAmazon DevOps Guru for RDS to Detect, Diagnose, and Resolve Amazon Aurora-Related Issues using MLAWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces Helps to Incrementally Refactor Your ApplicationsVisit our website to find out more about cloud FinOps. 

Send us a textSteve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for November! This episode covers the following topics:Achieve up to 30% better performance with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using new Graviton2 instancesSheet Change Performance Optimizations is now generally available for Amazon QuickSightAnnouncing general availability of Amazon EC2 G5 instancesAWS Batch introduces fair-share schedulingAmazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity RebalancingAmazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plansModernizing compliance: Introducing Risk and Compliance as CodeAnnouncing Spot Pods for GKE Autopilot—save on fault tolerant workloadsForrester: The Total Economic Impact™ Of Migrating Expensive Operating Systems and Traditional Software to Google CloudAutomatically clean up unneeded data with TTL for Cloud SpannerLive resize of Azure Disk Storage in public previewGeneral availability: Provisioned throughput increase for Azure Ultra Disk StorageTo find out more about cloud FinOps, click here to visit our website. 

Send us a textAbout this podcastSteve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for October! This episode covers the following topics:AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance InterruptionsAWS Pricing Calculator now supports Amazon CloudFrontIntroducing Amazon EC2 C6i instancesAWS Marketplace announces Purchase Order Management for SaaS contractsAmazon EC2 announces attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot FleetIntroducing GKE image streaming for fast application startup and autoscalingRun your fault-tolerant workloads cost-effectively with Google Cloud Spot VMsN2D VMs with latest AMD EPYC CPUs enable on average over 30% better price-performanceFind your GKE cost optimization opportunities right in the consoleGoogle Cloud billing tutorials: Because surprises are for home makeover shows, not your walletFind out more about Cloud FinOps by visiting our website.

Send us a textSteve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for September! This episode covers the following topics: Amazon Redshift extends Automatic Table Optimization to support Column Compression EncodingAWS Cost Categories introduces Split Charge rules for allocation of shared costsAmazon MSK adds metrics for increased visibility of capacityAmazon Textract Updates: Up to 32% Price Reduction in 8 AWS Regions and Up to 50% Reduction in Asynchronous Job Processing TimesAmazon Elastic File System introduces Intelligent-Tiering to automatically optimize storage costsAmazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering – Improved Cost Optimizations for Short-Lived and Small ObjectsGeneral availability: Azure Files supports storage capacity reservations for premium, hot, and cool tiersPublic preview: Scale-down mode in AKSGeneral availability: Lower capacity reservation tier for Azure Monitor dedicated clusters AWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine type Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databasesNow auto-terminate idle EMR clusters to lower costVisit our website to find out more about cloud FinOps.

Send us a textAfter a bit of a delay caused by holidays, covering holidays, surgeries and the day job, Frank and Stephen are back to talk you through the summer's news on Cloud FinOps.This month there's no main topic as there was so much interesting news and Frank and Stephen chatted far too much!Here's the topics they covered:azon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/aws-lowers-data-processing-charges-aws-privatelink/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/optimizing-your-google-cloud-spend-bigquery-and-looker https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/pick-the-google-cloud-region-with-the-lowest-co2 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/deliver-scalable-costeffective-disk-storage-for-azure-vmware-solution/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/aws-allows-customers-pay-their-usage-in-advance/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-of-azure-database-for-mysql-flexible-server-now-offers-reserved-instance-pricing/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-azure-backup-now-supports-archive-tier-for-backups-of-sql-server-in-azure-vms/ https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/dcsv2-vms-pricing-reduction?WT.mc_id=acm-micflan https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m6i-instances-powered-by-the-latest-generation-intel-xeon-scalable-processors AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-azure-spring-cloud-pricing-model-change/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/06/amazon-ec2-inf1-instances-new-features-improved-performance-and-lower-prices/