The FinOps Guys - Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois

What's new in Cloud FinOps?

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Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois get together to discuss what's new in the world of cloud when it comes to FinOps. There are two monthly episodes, one where we'll discuss the top stories we've found from this month and a second episode where we bring in a friend of the show to talk to us about a topic of their choosing.

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The FinOps Guys - Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois

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Episode 3 - December - Optimising FaaS 22.12.2020 38:10

Send us Fan Mail In this Episode we welcome our friend and Strategic Blue Teaming Partner Dario Ferrer, founder of DFTek. After Steve and Frank go through the news from the last month Dario tells us about how he managed to reduce cost and increase efficiency of a set of cloud functions to create an impressive saving for one of his projects.

Episode 2 - November - Top 10 FinOps Tricks 16.11.2020 32:33

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we go through the news from the last month as well as our special monthly topic - Our top 10 FinOps Tricks. News covered: Updates to AWS Budgets AWS release P4 instances Graviton chips for RDS and Elasticache AWS PO Management and updates to Cost Categories GCP CloudCDN price changes GCP - Free Coursera for a month AWS SageMaker price changes AWS updates to instanc...

Episode 1 - October - Why do Cloud Providers price the way they do? 06.10.2020 31:29

Send us Fan Mail In our first episode, we discuss October's FinOps news and give an in-depth understanding of why the cloud providers price in the way they do. To skip to the bits you want: 1:28 - AWS new Graviton Chips 3:32 - GCP n2 chips 5:08 - AWS Savings Plan Queueing 7:26 - Azure Cost Allocator Preview 8:33 - Azure Cost Management 9:51 - AWS Monthly Granularity on Cost and Usage Report (...