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:

1. azon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/aws-lowers-data-processing-charges-aws-privatelink/ 
2. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/optimizing-your-google-cloud-spend-bigquery-and-looker 
3. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/pick-the-google-cloud-region-with-the-lowest-co2 
4. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/deliver-scalable-costeffective-disk-storage-for-azure-vmware-solution/ 
5. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/aws-allows-customers-pay-their-usage-in-advance/ 
6. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/public-preview-of-azure-database-for-mysql-flexible-server-now-offers-reserved-instance-pricing/ 
7. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-azure-backup-now-supports-archive-tier-for-backups-of-sql-server-in-azure-vms/ 
8. https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/dcsv2-vms-pricing-reduction?WT.mc_id=acm-micflan 
9. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m6i-instances-powered-by-the-latest-generation-intel-xeon-scalable-processors 
10. AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes 
11. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-azure-spring-cloud-pricing-model-change/ 
12. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/06/amazon-ec2-inf1-instances-new-features-improved-performance-and-lower-prices/