What's new in Cloud FinOps?

Send us a textIn this episode we go through the news from the last month as well as our special monthly topic - Our top 10 FinOps Tricks.News covered:Updates to AWS BudgetsAWS release P4 instancesGraviton chips for RDS and ElasticacheAWS PO Management and updates to Cost CategoriesGCP CloudCDN price changesGCP - Free Coursera for a monthAWS SageMaker price changesAWS updates to instances that can be Hibernated Azure Openshift pricingAzure - Files Premium Tier price changesAzure Spot Updates (AKS and insights)Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reservationsIn the monthly topic, Frank and Stephen are dropped into a company and talk through what they'd do first to try to reduce cloud costs!

Send us a textIn our first episode, we discuss October's FinOps news and give an in-depth understanding of why the cloud providers price in the way they do.To skip to the bits you want:1:28 - AWS new Graviton Chips3:32 - GCP n2 chips5:08 - AWS Savings Plan Queueing7:26 - Azure Cost Allocator Preview8:33 - Azure Cost Management9:51 - AWS Monthly Granularity on Cost and Usage Report (CUR)11:19 - AWS Cost Anomaly Detector13:48 - AWS Reserved Bandwidth for Elemental MediaConnect15:25 - BIG TOPIC - Cloud provider pricing models - The how and why.Thanks for listening,Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois