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FinOps X Europe 2024 – Day 1 Keynote

FinOps Foundation

Key Insight: The practice of FinOps continues to evolve around several key themes that all point to its deeper integration into existing processes, business frameworks, and technology environments. Check out the full recording of Day 1 Keynote here: Watch the full recording of Day 1 Keynote from FinOps X Europe in Barcelona in November 2024.

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State of FinOps ’24: Top Priorities Shift to Reducing Waste and Managing Commitments

FinOps Foundation

Key Insight: With economic pressure increasing across the world in 2023, many organizations are leaning on their FinOps teams to help prioritize cloud optimizations. Sustainability teams have limited intersection with FinOps teams today, but that number is expected to increase substantially in the future.

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FOCUS Sandbox and sample data available now

FinOps Foundation

Key Insight: To support the adoption of FOCUS , the FinOps Foundation has augmented the Use Case Library with the introduction of the FOCUS Sandbox. The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS ) is an open-source technical specification for cloud cost and usage billing data. What is FOCUS? Why a FOCUS Sandbox?

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FinOps Tool Vendors Adopt FOCUS

FinOps Foundation

Key Insight: In addition to all major cloud infrastructure providers, third-party FinOps tool vendors are adopting the FOCUS for their platforms. Thousands of Practitioners rely on these tools to perform FinOps in their organizations. Introduction With the launch of FOCUS 1.0

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2024 re:Invent announcement recap for AWS Cloud Financial Management services

AWS FinOps

While we may not achieve a perfect 10, as there is always room for improvement, we do hope that these ten new features will help accomplish your daily FinOps tasks more effectively. You can simulate an entire bill computation by including cost impact analysis to workload and purchase option changes (e.g., specifications.

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Day 2 Keynote at FinOps X 2024

FinOps Foundation

Key Insight: The 2024 Day 2 Keynotes brought something brand new to FinOps X: feature announcements from the three largest clouds. with native billing exports, and revealed a number of important enhancements for FinOps Practitioners. Google Cloud, Microsoft, and AWS all announced support for FOCUS 1.0

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Will AI and LLMs Transform FinOps?

FinOps Foundation

Key Insight: Microsoft discovered that FinOps is the key to cloud success after a lift and shift approach left savings on the table. Managing the cloud bill is a shared responsibility among cloud providers, customers, and partners. Partners can help facilitate optimal usage.

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