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Send us Fan Mail An episode about FinOps in 2023. What are the themes that shaped FinOps and Cloud? What events, big or small, are defining what we will see in 2024? We talk about client behaviour and why repatriation is a thing. We dive into the strategic decisions made by cloud vendors in 2023 and their impact on the market, including price increases, and changes in products. We cover the incred...

Send us Fan Mail Last episode of the year. And for possibly the first time ever we have a lot of Google news and a group of sustainability articles!  The FinOps Guys are Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois and we can be contacted at podcast@finopsguys.co.uk PS: we are still thinking (vaguely) about a website.

Send us Fan Mail Loads and loads of AWS news coming from re:Invent for November. And this month we have Frank having to evacuate the building due to a fire alarm; nothing real, fortunately. Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation. Send you feedback, ideas, invitations or any other thing yo...

Send us Fan Mail Another great interview, this time with Assaf Flatto.  This is the three of us showing what being part of a growing community is about: we share, we debate, and in the end, FinOps is a more mature discipline.  Send you feedback, ideas, invitations or any other thing you want to talk about at: podcast@finopsguys.co.uk

Send us Fan Mail !!!! You can now contact us at podcast(at)finopsguys.co.uk !!!! Frank and Stephen review the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for October 2023.  A lot of updates this month.  Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation.

Send us Fan Mail Alee made what Stephen and I think is the best talk at FinOps X 2023. and we recommend you watch it before listening to the episode.  The (kind of) driving topic is "What would have changed from the talk", but as usual, the episode is full of stories, comments, ideas and fun. 

Send us Fan Mail !!!! You can now contact us at podcast(at)finopsguys.co.uk !!!! Frank and Stephen review the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for September 2023.  A lot of updates this month. Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation. Azure virtual machine sizes naming conventions

Send us Fan Mail Cloud vendor announces new instance types every month, and the content of the announcement is always the same:  "The new instance is faster, shinier and cheaper than the previous one."   But is it true? And what about other instances in the same generation but with different CPU vendors? Anthony tests it all. He checks every new instance appearing in one of the 200 (yes,...

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Stephen remember some fun facts from the last three years of podcasting about FinOps. 

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for August 2023.  A lot of updates this month.  Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation.

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for July 2023.  A lot of updates this month. Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation.

Send us Fan Mail Based on the audio, it might sound as if Frank is in a small wooden box; you would be almost correct, as the small meeting room I was in is horrible from a sound perspective.  Frank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for June 2023.  A lot of updates this month. Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly t...

Send us Fan Mail Curious about when doing FinOps starts? Join hosts Frank and Stephen as they tap into the expertise of FinOps gurus Stephanie Gooch and Marit Hughes.  Get ready for an exploration filled with unexpected detours, captivating insights, and bursting with infectious energy,  "We had a lot of fun recording. The positive vibe can be felt when listening to the episode" - Frank....

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for May 2023.  The most updates we've seen from the vendors in a while, Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation. Going to FinOps X? Come speak to us there and if you fancy doing an episode or a...

Send us Fan Mail Is FinOps the same in every organisation? Absolutely not! It varies massively by organisation but also by sector.  This month Frank and Steve catch up with long time friend of Frank's (and new time friend of Steve) Marit Hughes. Marit brings her expansive knowledge and experience to help bring some colour to the differing challenges of FinOps in private sector and public sect...

Send us Fan Mail Join Frank and Stephen talking through the latest news from FinOps in April 2023. A nice mix of AWS, Azure and even a bit of GCP. Covering topics like new instances, some "free tier" stuff and even ABC (you can find out what that is by listening!). Also watch out for our next interview with Marit Hughes!

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Steve dive into what's new in March 2023, with some cool stuff in AWS and Azure and even digging deep into the release notes of google to find some more cool things. The episode is topped off by learning about some of Frank's really cool research, and for our native French listeners, look out for Frank's new French version of the news!

Send us Fan Mail A fantastic episode with our friend Deana Solis, a senior FinOps Engineer who is heavily involved in the FinOps Foundation and Women in FinOps. She tells the story of "Woman" in FinOps and also her career in general. A really down to earth individual, Deana lets us in to the realities of her journey and why the linear career isn't the most interesting!

Send us Fan Mail This month we're joined by our friend Bartosz Kupiecki, the Head of FinOps at IncreDevo. Their team saw the issue, and attacked it with an engineering mindset, building a tool to manage the process. In this podcast we learn about their journey and how they attacked the problem. We've all been there, we all know the pains, it's great to hear from someone who really a...

Send us Fan Mail Stephen and Frank dive into the latest news from FinOps in February, as well as a bit of a discussion on Azures FX changes that have increased customers pricing. We also look at the changes to Azure RIs. Actually as a whole there's a lot less AWS on this episode and quite a lot more Azure and GCP! Well worth a listen.

Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone, This month we talk about everything that was new in January from the cloud vendors (which sadly wasn't loads) and go through the potential benefits or ramifications. We also discuss our addition of a new sustainability section and will work to find interesting articles on this topic too (beyond the cloud vendors). Apologies it's a bit late, between holida...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined by our good friend Tom Cross at Air Lingus, who talks to us about the challenges of FinOps in reality.   Tom helps us talk through the challenges of trying to keep FinOps in mind during the migration and why it so easily can drop down the agenda. This is a slightly different episode where we very informally talk about the realities of the job! We hope you enjoy!

Send us Fan Mail This month Erik Carlin of ProsperOps joins Steve and Frank in discussing metrics for FinOps, specifically focussing on Effective Savings Rate (ESR).   With a history of how it came about as well as where to find more information their to support the community, Erik shows his wealth of knowledge in the FinOps world.

Send us Fan Mail A quick run through of the new FinOps updates from December, completing the updates for 2022. Stephen and Frank go through the key topics as usual: Data/DBs Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories) Commitment Savings  Storage Instances Misc/Silly

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Steve lament on trips to Vegas over the years, with Frank going to this year's Re:invent again in person.   We discuss our favourite bits of news (which was quite a lot) and you may notice that while in the Keynotes Sustainability was discussed a lot, not much comes across in the latest releases.  We even have updates from Steve's favourite AWS service he'...