FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Insight Since clean, usable data underpins all of FinOps, Microsoft is expanding the cost and usage data available to you in the portal, and making more datasets available to you through cost management exports. Summary Education: Microsoft is investing in helping organizations learn how to adopt FinOps.

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FinOps Foundation

JUNE 3, 2024

Key Insight: Carbon optimization is a growing concern for organizations, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) teams can leverage the culture of collaboration and waste reduction that FinOps teams have cultivated. Data suggest that sustainability and FinOps practitioners are up to the task.

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FinOps Foundation

JUNE 3, 2024

Key Insight: Carbon optimization is a growing concern for organizations, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) teams can leverage the culture of collaboration and waste reduction that FinOps teams have cultivated. Data suggest that sustainability and FinOps practitioners are up to the task.

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FinOps Foundation

JUNE 20, 2024

Key Insight: FOCUS is the unifying format for cloud bills. FOCUS is being adopted by end user FinOps Practitioners, leading cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers, and FinOps tool vendors, who all benefit from removing complexity associated with cloud billing data normalization. The FOCUS 1.0 What is FOCUS?

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FinOps Foundation

JULY 3, 2024

Key Insight: At FinOps X in San Diego last week, the three largest cloud service providers took the stage to announce feature launches and improvements to their FinOps offerings. Mike Fuller , CTO of the FinOps Foundation, and J.R. Oracle Cloud also launched FOCUS support just before the conference.

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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

JUNE 3, 2024

Key Insight: Carbon optimization is a growing concern for organizations, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) teams can leverage the culture of collaboration and waste reduction that FinOps teams have cultivated. Data suggest that sustainability and FinOps practitioners are up to the task.

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ProsperOps

JANUARY 31, 2023

methods enable organizations to derive the maximum value from cloud computing while spending less time managing and optimizing cloud costs. FinOps Basics: What is Cloud Cost Optimization? Today, engineers are far more in control of their own destiny, and they often have their own budget for cloud computing expenses. With CCO 2.0,

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FinOps in Practice

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A newly released report , “Cloud Computing Market Research Report by Workload, Service Model, Infrastructure, Solution, Organization Size, Industry, Deployment model, Region” conducted a global forecast through to 2027, keeping the impact of COVID-19 in mind. Etsy has seen a savings of more than 50 percent in compute energy with GCP.

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AWS FinOps

JUNE 21, 2024

Excitement filled the air, as James Greenfield, VP of AWS Commerce Platform, took the stage at 2024 FinOps X in San Diego. This is our first time attending the conference as a member of the FinOps Foundation. Let’s take a moment to recap the product announcements made at FinOps X and how they can help accomplish your FinOps goals.

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FinOps in Practice

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For instance, EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), a service that provides compute capacity in the cloud, has numerous instance families and types that have different costs. And let us remind you that compute is one of three fundamental drivers of costs with Amazon, along with storage and outbound data transfer. on GitHub → [link] ??

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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. These recommendations help GCP users, for example, make adjustments more seamlessly within the platform and prevent cloud bill surprises.

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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

If you prepay for a 12-month Compute Savings Plan, you simply straight-line amortize the cost over 12 months—done. This includes streamlining complex cloud financial management (FinOps) processes, which is why I am excited to announce our latest feature, Dynamic Prepay Amortization Tracking.

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Azure FinOps

APRIL 28, 2022

Today, it’s difficult to recall the resistance public cloud, as a method for providing key services such as computation and database, faced in an earlier stage. 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.

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Azure FinOps

APRIL 28, 2022

Today, it’s difficult to recall the resistance public cloud, as a method for providing key services such as computation and database, faced in an earlier stage. 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.

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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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FinOps in Practice

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

With the advent of the digital age, cloud computing has quickly become an essential option for organizations of all sizes and shapes. Being a relentless leader in the IT field, Microsoft just couldn’t help but come up with a cloud computing platform of its own. 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. For example, finance may want to just go into your billing information with no need to tap into other places. These details can be found here. on GitHub → [link] ??

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ProsperOps

MARCH 16, 2023

Ultimately, we landed on commitment-based discount management and concluded that a portfolio of Convertible Reserved Instances (RIs), later augmented with Compute Savings Plans (2019) would generate the highest ESR. We created Effective Savings Rate (ESR) as a way to measure and definitively know the answers to our modeling questions.

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Economize

MARCH 13, 2024

The introduction of FOCUS converters for AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Billing is a significant leap forward in achieving […]

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Economize

JANUARY 18, 2024

The new BigQuery FOCUS view is an effort from GCP to simplify the cloud billing efforts taken by Organizations using a multi-cloud environment. Being a core contributor to the FinOps FOCUS Project, GCP has taken a significant step towards standardizing cloud cost management.

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finout

JULY 15, 2024

As organizations increasingly shift to cloud computing, managing cloud costs emerges as a primary concern. The dynamic nature of cloud billing, with its myriad of services and pricing options, often leads to unexpected costs, making it challenging for organizations to stay within budget.

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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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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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Economize

AUGUST 31, 2023

Far too often, businesses find themselves facing unforeseen expenditures, as their bills frequently exceed initial budgets. Why Cloud Cost Optimization is Non-Negotiable Cloud spending is on an inevitable upswing, projected to reach a staggering $597.3 billion by 2023 according to a Gartner forecast. Complexity Amplifies Cost The […]

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Azure FinOps

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

We’re now at a point in the still unfolding history of cloud computing when serious questions are being asked about cost which has led to the rise of FinOps as a practice area. Reservations provide a billing discount and don’t affect the runtime state of your resources. You can pay for a reservation up front or monthly.

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Azure FinOps

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

We’re now at a point in the still unfolding history of cloud computing when serious questions are being asked about cost which has led to the rise of FinOps as a practice area. Reservations provide a billing discount and don’t affect the runtime state of your resources. You can pay for a reservation up front or monthly.

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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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ProsperOps

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The promise of elastic cloud infrastructure is the ability to quickly spin compute up and down and only pay for what you use. We hope this is helpful for anyone looking to save as much money as possible on their cloud bill. This ultimately leads to a wide variety of workload patterns from consistently stable to highly volatile.

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Azure FinOps

JANUARY 19, 2022

As a design principle, choosing platform services over VMs is a good starting doctrine but it’s still important to estimate your potential costs and, within your design , select the correct tiers and savings plans to fit the requirement while optimizing usage from a cost efficiency point of view (part of a FinOps practice).

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Azure FinOps

JANUARY 19, 2022

As a design principle, choosing platform services over VMs is a good starting doctrine but it’s still important to estimate your potential costs and, within your design , select the correct tiers and savings plans to fit the requirement while optimizing usage from a cost efficiency point of view (part of a FinOps practice).

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ProsperOps

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The promise of elastic cloud infrastructure is the ability to quickly spin compute up and down and only pay for what you use. We hope this is helpful for anyone looking to save as much money as possible on their cloud bill. This ultimately leads to a wide variety of workload patterns from consistently stable to highly volatile.

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finout

AUGUST 8, 2023

AWS Cost Allocation Tags: Implementation, Challenges, and Alternatives Introduction to AWS Cost Allocation Tags Are you tired of sifting through complex billing reports to pinpoint where your Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs are coming from? A significant third of cloud computing costs go to waste. You're not alone!

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finout

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Table of Contents Understanding Databricks Costs Databricks Billing Challenges Strategies for Databricks Cost Optimization Monitor Databricks Cost with Finout Databricks is a software-as-a-service platform for data engineering, data science, and analytics used by many companies, including Fortune 500 companies, startups, and research institutions.

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