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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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AWS’ debut to FinOps X: recap and product announcement highlights

AWS FinOps

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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Getting Started with Cloud FinOps: Top 3 Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

ProsperOps

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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Getting Started with Cloud FinOps: Top 3 Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

ProsperOps

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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AWS Budgets vs. Cost Explorer: Understanding the Differences for Optimal Spend Management

ProsperOps

Recent studies find that cost management is the top cloud computing priority for businesses— surpassing security concerns. AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Explorer are two useful AWS cost management tools that give visibility into AWS cloud costs and usage. What is AWS Budgets? It’s a tool best used to budget costs before spending.

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Cloud Cost Optimization 2.0: Embracing AI and Automation to Maximize Cloud Cost Savings

ProsperOps

By 2025, 51% of IT budgets will go to cloud-based systems and operations. 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? needs to evolve to meet the needs of modern FinOps and DevOps teams.

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How Do You Get Started in FinOps?

Azure FinOps

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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