Episode 2 - November - Top 10 FinOps Tricks
What's new in Cloud FinOps?
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What's new in Cloud FinOps?
Episode 2 - November - Top 10 FinOps Tricks
Nov 16, 2020 Season 1 Episode 2
Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois

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 instances that can be Hibernated 
  • Azure Openshift pricing
  • Azure - Files Premium Tier price changes
  • Azure Spot Updates (AKS and insights)
  • Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reservations

In the monthly topic, Frank and Stephen are dropped into a company and talk through what they'd do first to try to reduce cloud costs!