What's new in Cloud FinOps?
67 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsStephen 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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Cloud FinOps News for 2022
February 19, 2022 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBStephen 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.
Even more AWS re:Invent 2021 updates to maximise your budget!
December 06, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBSteve 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 Storage Class Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless in publ...
AWS re:Invent 2021 updates that will save you money on cloud!
December 03, 2021 19:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBWe 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 Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (Im4gn and Is4gen) Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors AWS Outposts Server...
Episode 13 - November Cloud FinOps News
December 03, 2021 18:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBSteve 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 AWS Batch introduces fair-share scheduling Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance term...
Episode 12 - October Cloud FinOps News
December 03, 2021 16:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBAbout 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 announces attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet Introducing ...
Episode 11 - September Cloud FinOps News
November 29, 2021 15:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBSteve 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 32% Price Reduction in 8 AWS Regions and Up to 50% Reduction in Asynchronous Job Processing Times Amazon Elas...
Episode 10 - August News
September 09, 2021 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBAfter 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-data-processing-charges-aws-privatelink/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/optimizing-your-google...
Episode 9 - AWS Free Tier Game
July 08, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBToday, 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-keys-reducing-the-costs-of-server-side-encryption-with-aws-key-management-service-sse-kms/ [AWS] - https://aws.a...
Episode 8 - Lots of FinOps news in May
June 15, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBHello 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 talk about for next time let us know!
Episode 7 - April - How mature is your cloud finance control?
May 11, 2021 16:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBWhat'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.
Episode 7 - April - How mature is your cloud finance control?
May 11, 2021 16:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBWhat'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.
Episode 6 - March - The ways to forecast
March 26, 2021 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBWhat'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 basic topics (like forecasting this month) and looking at how Cloud may change them compared to traditional IT procurement.
Podcast 5 - February - Re:invent Review
February 23, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBThis 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 Support (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/) New for AWS Lambda – 1ms...
Episode 4 - January - Recap of 2020 and looking forward to 2021
January 25, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBToday 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 forward into 2021 and how the new chip releases may impact the cloud market.
Episode 3 - December - Optimising FaaS
December 22, 2020 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBIn 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
November 16, 2020 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBIn 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 instances that can be Hibernated Azure Openshift pricing Azure - Files Premium Tier price changes Azure Spo...
Episode 1 - October - Why do Cloud Providers price the way they do?
October 06, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBIn 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 (CUR) 11:19 - AWS Cost Anomaly Detector 13:48 - AWS Reserved Bandwidth for Elemental MediaConnect 15:25 - BIG TOPIC -...