ProsperOps

APRIL 25, 2023

The insights are particularly valuable for teams as they begin their FinOps journey and subsequently mature through its phases. Start with the Right Metrics to Understand Cloud Resources and Rates FinOps cost optimization can be thought of as spanning two universes: financial and engineering.

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ProsperOps

APRIL 25, 2023

The insights are particularly valuable for teams as they begin their FinOps journey and subsequently mature through its phases. Start with the Right Metrics to Understand Cloud Resources and Rates FinOps cost optimization can be thought of as spanning two universes: financial and engineering.

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FinOps in Practice

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In particular, this concerns the policy of rights management, financial cloud management and billing – aspects that are the most common reasons for wasted resources. You might also want to consider providing some level of redundancy in order to ensure fail-safe access to your account.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Education : Microsoft wants to help organizations learn how to adopt FinOps. While tools help with implementing FinOps, the cultural shift can be more difficult, so Microsoft is focusing on teaching people about the collaboration that is required to be successful with FinOps.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Education: Microsoft wants to help organizations learn how to adopt FinOps. While tools help with implementing FinOps, the cultural shift can be more difficult, so Microsoft is focusing on teaching people about the collaboration that is required to be successful with FinOps.

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FinOps Foundation

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Key Insight: FinOps is continuing to shift from managing cost as an operational afterthought to a key consideration in the product design process. FinOps teams can estimate, monitor, and optimize the unit cost of a product or service from inception to help drive cost-aware product decisions before architecture begins. Product Design.

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FinOps in Practice

AUGUST 9, 2023

When a company uses AWS services, whether running virtual servers or storing data, it is billed for the resources it consumes. The FinOps team within the company naturally wants to stay in the know of the cloud costs to reduce and optimize them. MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) is calculated using the accrual basis of accounting.

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FinOps in Practice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is no coincidence that such an area as cloud cost management, and later FinOps, appeared, which are designed to identify excessive and redundant resources that spend the budget in vain. Hopefully, keeping them more top of mind will help you and your FinOps team avoid them come next month.

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ProsperOps

APRIL 26, 2023

This decouples the timing of when usage is paid for from when it’s consumed, which for customers using accrual vs. cash accounting (most large companies), results in a need to amortize the prepayment. An Automated Approach to Amortization Tracking with ProsperOps We’re on a mission to automate and simplify savings for cloud customers.

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Azure FinOps

APRIL 28, 2022

With this in-mind, let’s consider the difficulties I’m seeing in the field as organizations struggle (I think that’s the right word) to adopt FinOps principles to their cloud usage. AG has a significant investment in cloud – Azure, AWS and GCP and a correspondingly large series of cloud bills. Why is this spending increasing?

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Azure FinOps

APRIL 28, 2022

With this in-mind, let’s consider the difficulties I’m seeing in the field as organizations struggle (I think that’s the right word) to adopt FinOps principles to their cloud usage. AG has a significant investment in cloud – Azure, AWS and GCP and a correspondingly large series of cloud bills. Why is this spending increasing?

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Economize

MAY 12, 2023

Discover the transformative power of FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS), a game-changer in the realm of cloud cost management that standardizes metrics across providers, enhancing data trust and promoting efficient decision-making

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FinOps in Practice

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

These two above considerations may or may not affect your AWS cloud cost management strategy in the long run, but in any case, you shouldn’t overlook them when adopting your FinOps approach. It may seem obvious, but choose your region when comparing prices – they vary based on location. on GitHub → [link] ??

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FinOps in Practice

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

FinOps teams use IAM to control who is authenticated, or able to log in, and authorized, those who have actual permission, to use the company’s resources. To step back a bit, when users login to their AWS accounts, there’s one sign-in identity that offers full access to all AWS services and resources within the account.

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FinOps in Practice

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Having access to rightsizing recommendations to consider can really help businesses leaders and FinOps teams to solve and improve their companies’ current processes and usage. Companies using these features can then see all of their underutilized instances across their various member accounts, but within one single view.

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Azure FinOps

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This post is about getting started with FinOps or, more specifically, how to cultivate a cloud optimization point of view and the obstacles you’re likely to face. If you’re interested in starting a FinOps practice within your organization, this is for you. It won’t shock you to learn there aren’t many companies like this.

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Azure FinOps

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This post is about getting started with FinOps or, more specifically, how to cultivate a cloud optimization point of view and the obstacles you’re likely to face. If you’re interested in starting a FinOps practice within your organization, this is for you. It won’t shock you to learn there aren’t many companies like this.

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CloudCheckr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

FinOps requires you to know exactly where to optimize your cloud costs, van der Maas says, so that you can sustain the “growth” of cloud transformation. Many organizations turn to industry best practices to guide their FinOps journey. How you bring FinOps into practice, that’s another thing.”

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FinOps in Practice

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

However, you need to remember that it cannot take into account many complicated scenarios that lead to additional hidden costs. To avoid these costs, it’s important to regularly monitor your Azure account and delete any unattached disks and snapshots that are running but no longer needed. on GitHub → [link] ??

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CloudCheckr

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Billing for Cloud Resources: Understanding Your Needs and Available Solutions Billing for or allocating cloud usage across a large set of customers within an enterprise is an essential part of delivering a cloud services business or managing cloud costs internally. Scenario Dollar-First Percentage-First AWS Bill $1.00 $1.00

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Azure FinOps

MARCH 25, 2022

Let’s start this by reviewing the FinOps Lifecycle, as visually expressed in this FinOps Foundation graphic: FinOps Lifecycle from the FinOps Foundation Applying tags to your Azure resources is a critical part of the inform phase of the lifecycle because it enables the unlocking of business relevant insight from cloud spending data.

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Azure FinOps

MARCH 25, 2022

Let’s start this by reviewing the FinOps Lifecycle, as visually expressed in this FinOps Foundation graphic: FinOps Lifecycle from the FinOps Foundation Applying tags to your Azure resources is a critical part of the inform phase of the lifecycle because it enables the unlocking of business relevant insight from cloud spending data.

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AWS FinOps

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Cost Explorer can be accessed through the AWS Billing Console to provide quick and easy access to pre-made forecasts. AWS Cost Explorer Ideal for Business/Product Owners, FinOps Practitioners, Engineers, and Operations About AWS Cost Explorer AWS Cost Explorer is an out-of-the-box solution and the simplest way to analyze your costs in AWS.

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CloudCheckr

JANUARY 26, 2023

One way to do so is to create a cross-functional group, like a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and/or FinOps organization, to manage and monitor your cloud investment and track your cloud KPIs, or key performance indicators. What Is FinOps? This is an area where a FinOps team, including members of finance, can offer their expertise.

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Tipalti

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Learn how self-billing works for UK businesses, its key benefits, and a step-by-step guide to simplify invoicing and improve cash flow efficiency.

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FinOps Foundation

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Key Insight: At re:Invent 2024, AWS announced numerous product enhancements that help FinOps Practitioners and their organizations optimize their cloud usage. The FinOps Foundation caught up with several AWS Product Managers at re:Invent and asked them what their teams have delivered and how these updates will impact Practitioners.

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FinOps Foundation

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Key Insight: To effectively manage the variable nature and distributed procurement model of cloud, FinOps Practitioners have built capabilities to maximize the value of their organization’s technology investments. We first explored this anticipated shift in the second edition of Cloud FinOps (pg.

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FinOps Foundation

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

the fourth release of the FOCUS Specification, is now available for cloud vendors and FinOps Practitioners to adopt. This version adds new Columns that deepen support for billing data generated by cloud service providers, giving Practitioners the ability to do more granular, multi-vendor analysis. Key Insight: Version 1.1,

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