What's new in Cloud FinOps?
What's new in Cloud FinOps?
The FinOps Guys - Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois
WNiCF - March 2024 - News
40 minutes Posted Apr 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm.
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In this episode, Frank and Steve discuss various news and updates in the cloud industry. 

They cover topics such as 

  • New AMD instances in Azure
  • Holographic stickers <- most important news :)
  • Azure cache for Redis, 
  • BigQuery cost savings
  • Amazon RDS custom for SQL Server
  • Azure SQL managed instance improvements
  • Changes in AWS cost management
  • AWS Cost Category
  • Retroactive application of cost allocation tags
  • AWS billing and cost management data export with CloudFormation
  • Reserved instances for Amazon Aurora Postgres Optimized Read
  • Dataflow streaming commits use discounts
  • Azure updates for enterprise customers 
  • Azure AI speech
  • Amazon SageMaker Canvas pricing
  • AWS Compute Optimizer supporting more EC2 instance types
  • Free data transfer out of AWS and Azure
  • Tagging with registering or copying AMIs in Amazon EC2
  • Updates to the FinOps framework, 
  • Azure carbon optimization tool for tracking emissions 
  • Increased default quota for CloudWatch log APIs 
  • AWS extending the lifespan of servers. 
  • They also briefly discuss Intel's losses and changes in the chip industry.