What's new in Cloud FinOps?

Send us Fan Mail In our latest news episode, we round up everything that's happened outside of Re:invent in November (Special Re:invent Episode to follow).  We also discuss some changes to the format, our new website (yet to launch) and our ongoing aim to share our learning and research.   Please see Transcript for list of all of the articles used this month.

Send us Fan Mail Our friend Mark Butcher joins Frank and Steve on a very fun episode discussing the incredibly important topic of sustainability.   We cover topics such as: What do the terms mean? How do you get started? How good are the tools?

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Stephen delve into all the FinOps related news and releases of October, covering a wide variety of topics and blogs. They then dig into their favourite releases from Microsoft Ignite in and out of the FinOps world.

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Stephen are joined by their friend Rob Martin, Director of Learning from the FinOps foundation. We talk about how to get into FinOps, what paths might be suitable based on your background and all of the wonderful resources available from the FinOp Foundation. We talk about our own education journeys with FinOps and how it's still such an exciting time to get involve...

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Steve take time between interviews to go through the latest news from September. This includes Azure's new Savings Plans where we cover: What they are. How they work. What are the gotchya's? as well as a bit about why they exist. Next episode will be a chat with Rob Martin about FinOps education, released in the next week.

Send us Fan Mail Today Frank and Steve are joined by TJ (Anthony Johnson), Cloud Business Manager at Box.  TJ talks to us about the new working group he's launched as part of the FinOps Foundation, Social Aspects of FinOps, as well as walking us through his journey and experiences to date.  We also briefly touch on Unit Economics which TJ has promised to come and do another episode on.  As pa...

Send us Fan Mail Steve and Frank discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in July/August 2022. In this episode, they highlight some recent Cloud FinOps trends, with a focus on recent AWS news. To find out more about Cloud FinOps, visit our website here.

Send us Fan Mail Steve and Frank discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in June 2022. In this episode they highlight some recent Cloud FinOps news and trends, with a focus on recent AWS announcements. To find out more about Cloud FinOps, visit our website here .

Send us Fan Mail Steve and Frank discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in May 2022. In this episode they highlight some recent Cloud FinOps news and trends, with a focus on recent AWS security announcements. To find out more about Cloud FinOps, visit our website here .

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Steve and Frank sit down and talk to the founder of Kubecost , Web Brown to discuss cloud FinOps. Webb explains how Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes, helping you continuously reduce your cloud costs. Webb answers all of Steve and Frank’s questions on how Kubecost’s solution could be beneficial for our listeners. T...

Send us Fan Mail We discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in March 2022. We also highlight some recent Cloud FinOps trends. Click here to learn more about Cloud FinOps

Send us Fan Mail We discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in February 2022. We also highlight some recent Cloud FinOps articles and pull out some key industry trends. Click here to learn more about Cloud FinOps

Send us Fan Mail Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois are back to discuss the latest Cloud FinOps news in their first podcast of 2022! They highlight the newest releases from the major cloud providers, share tips and tricks on how to save more money on cloud and discuss how the definition of FinOps has changed over time.  Click here to learn more about cloud FinOps. 

Send us Fan Mail Steve and Frank have even more announcements to share with you from AWS re:Invent 2021 so decided to record a second episode. There are many exciting updates that will help you to maximise your AWS budget including: Enhanced Amazon S3 Integration for Amazon FSx for Lustre Amazon S3 Glacier is the Best Place to Archive Your Data – Introducing the S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Storag...

Send us Fan Mail We share the latest cloud FinOps announcements from AWS re:Invent! There were many announcements to choose from, but the topics we've chosen to focus on will help you to save the most money on AWS:  Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand – Stream Data at Scale Without Managing Capacity AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere to Deploy Your Kubernetes Cluster in Any Environment...

Send us Fan Mail Steve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for November! This episode covers the following topics: Achieve up to 30% better performance with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using new Graviton2 instances Sheet Change Performance Optimizations is now generally available for Amazon QuickSight Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G5 instances AW...

Send us Fan Mail About this podcast Steve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for October! This episode covers the following topics: AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions AWS Pricing Calculator now supports Amazon CloudFront Introducing Amazon EC2 C6i instances AWS Marketplace announces Purchase Order Management for SaaS contracts Amazon EC2 announc...

Send us Fan Mail Steve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for September! This episode covers the following topics:  Amazon Redshift extends Automatic Table Optimization to support Column Compression Encoding AWS Cost Categories introduces Split Charge rules for allocation of shared costs Amazon MSK adds metrics for increased visibility of capacity Amazon Textract Updates: Up to 3...

Send us Fan Mail After a bit of a delay caused by holidays, covering holidays, surgeries and the day job, Frank and Stephen are back to talk you through the summer's news on Cloud FinOps. This month there's no main topic as there was so much interesting news and Frank and Stephen chatted far too much! Here's the topics they covered: azon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/aws-lowers-da...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Frank and Stephen talk through the news (largely from late May - early June) and then discuss what could be built using Free Tiers granted by AWS.  The next two episodes will look at Free Tiers in Azure and then GCP (we're going alphabetically). In the news: [AWS]  -  https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/06/identify-and-copy-existing-objects-to-use-s3-bucket...

Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone! This month we have lots of exciting things to tell you about!  Frank and Stephen have gone through the top FinOps stories from the major vendors and tell you what you need to know. We also dig into the new AWS Application Cost Profiler which begins to help on the journey to cost per user from shared resources. If there's anything else you'd like us to tal...

Send us Fan Mail What's new in Cloud FinOps Episode 7 hosted by Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois. This month we go through what's new in Cloud FinOps from the last month and are joined by Strategic Blue's Financial Solution Architect, Jon Bryant, who explains our FinOps Framework.

Send us Fan Mail What's new in Cloud FinOps Episode 6 hosted by Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois. This month we go through what's new in Cloud FinOps from the last month, before delving in to different ways to forecast and the pros and cons of them. With Cloud FinOps accelerating and more people asking us about how best to embed it into their organisations we've started with some ba...

Send us Fan Mail This month we run through the rather limited news in FinOps this month, before Stephen and Frank dive in to their favourite things from Re:invent. Frank focusses on deep dive technical services such as: AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources ( https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloudshell-command-line-access-to-aws-resources/ ) New for AWS Lambda – Container Image...

Send us Fan Mail Today we have a quick look through what's new in the past month in Cloud FinOps followed by a special guest segment. Our special guest is Jon Bryant, Strategic Blue lead Financial Solutions Architect (FinSA).   Jon runs us through the most interesting things we saw in 2020, any trends they may suggest and how things have impacted cloud in the past 12 months.  Then we look for...