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A great FinOps Practice starts with an Assessment
First you must measure it before you can manage it!
And moves forward with a Gap analysis
One gap to close is expediting the knowledge transfer from the FinOps team to each of the personas and what better way to do this than using our AI Chatbot!
Cost Optimization
Lets be honest, FinOps starts and ends with Cost Optimization. Making your environments as efficient as possible justifies the the whole FinOps discipline. Cloud is iterative and should use resources in a "just in time inventory" approach. We have saved clients between 10% - 35% off of their run rate WITHOUT impact to redundancy, development and service delivery .
Lots of great industry expertise shared at FinOps X 2023
We met with vendor leader like IBM, VMware and Microsoft. We shared insights with the FinOps Foundation professionals as well as leading edge vendors such as ProsperOps. In attendance were clients from companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Wawa and Citigroup. We will be in San Diego this June for FinOps X 2024!
FinOps Chatbot creation for knowledgebase
Our Chatbot was created from our 30 years in business, twelve years in the cloud and five years in FinOps. Up until 2023 we were documenting our best practices in SharePoint, Confluence and PDFs. The time has come to transform the static knowledgebase into an ever learning AI Chatbot! .
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Understanding Cloud Usage/Cost
Understanding Cloud Usage/Cost
Understanding Cloud Usage/Cost
Within this Domain, organizations strive to gather comprehensive information about their cloud usage and costs, normalize the data, and make it accessible for review by relevant stakeholders.
Real-Time Decision Making
Understanding Cloud Usage/Cost
Understanding Cloud Usage/Cost
- Measuring Unit Costs
- Managing Anomalies
- Establishing a FinOps Decision & Accountability Structure
- Data Analysis and Showback
Application Migrations
Understanding Cloud Usage/Cost
Organizational Alignment
Start examining costs as you evaluate applications to be migrated from On Prem to public cloud. Understand the cost of "Lift and Shift" and the return on investment of re-engineering applications to take advantage of Cloud Native designs and services. Learn out to use Database Migration Services to evaluate moving from expensive databases to MYSQL.
Organizational Alignment
Organizational Alignment
Organizational Alignment
- Intersection of Finance, Management, Engineering, Business Service Delivery and Governance.
- Managing Shared Cost
- Managing Commitment Based Discounts
- Establishing FinOps Culture
- FinOps Education & Enablement
Cloud Usage Optimization
Organizational Alignment
Cloud Usage Optimization
- Workload Management - "Turn it off when your not using it"
- Resource Utilization & Efficiency via rightsizing server , storage and database capacity.
- Onboarding Workloads in a just in time manner.
- Gamification of best and worst efficiencies.
Business Intelligence
Organizational Alignment
Cloud Usage Optimization
- We are very adept at using AWS cloud native reporting tools such as Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets and Advisor.
- We are experts at using 3rd party tools such as Cloudhealth, PowerBI, ApptioBI and Cloudability to deliver data analysis and showback reports.