What's new in Cloud FinOps?
The FinOps Guys - Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois
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.
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Jan 25, 2021 • 37min
Episode 4 - January - Recap of 2020 and looking forward to 2021
Send us a textToday we have a quick look through what's new in the past month in Cloud FinOps followed by a special guest segment.Our special guest is Jon Bryant, Strategic Blue lead Financial Solutions Architect (FinSA). Jon runs us through the most interesting things we saw in 2020, any trends they may suggest and how things have impacted cloud in the past 12 months. Then we look forward into 2021 and how the new chip releases may impact the cloud market.
Dec 22, 2020 • 38min
Episode 3 - December - Optimising FaaS
Send us a textIn this Episode we welcome our friend and Strategic Blue Teaming Partner Dario Ferrer, founder of DFTek. After Steve and Frank go through the news from the last month Dario tells us about how he managed to reduce cost and increase efficiency of a set of cloud functions to create an impressive saving for one of his projects.
Nov 16, 2020 • 33min
Episode 2 - November - Top 10 FinOps Tricks
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!
Oct 6, 2020 • 31min
Episode 1 - October - Why do Cloud Providers price the way they do?
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
