DBT and FinOps data - a match made in heaven First in a series on Cost Allocation, this post talks about tooling - DBT, data warehouses, and the benefits of technical ownership of your FinOps data story.
FinOps FOCUS, succinctly I attended the FinOps Roadshow in New York back in the late winter, and FOCUS was a large topic. Talking to my friend Dann B after the thing, it became clear that for as much buzz as there is around FOCUS, it's ironically unclear what the deliverable of
EBS - monthly pricing means monthly pricing I just made a rather surprising discovery that I wanted to quickly share/jot down regarding EBS. My usecase is that I'm trying to gather up all the provisioned storage that we have in $segment so I can compare it to some other metrics reporting I have on
Cloud Computing is Fractional Reserve Banking ⚠️I've never seen this framing before and I can't find it anywhere on the internet so that means one of two things, but here goes... My employer operates a Platform as a Service, a PaaS. We host "customer workloads", which is to say we
The Rosetta Stone Hi there, I'm going to try to re-prime the pump with a quick thought today about the overall nature of FinOps as a profession, at least as we practice it at my employer. The background is that my teammate just got her CGEIT certification - Certified in the
How to compute reservation coverage (and utilization) from your AWS bill Wherein we learn how to calculate all flavors of usage - reserved, on demand, and savings plan covered - in the same chart. Then we learn how to compute SavingsPlan utilization and overcommit all from the AWS CUR.
FinOps is performance optimization Wherein we present a simple mental model for what FinOps really is.
GCP compute can be both reserved AND on demand 😴Bare minimum Mondays: wherein we scratch the surface of a topic to be explored further in a future post. I was sitting around a table of practitioners recently, discussing the "vibe" of the big 3 cloud vendors - AWS, Azure, and GCP. We all pretty much agreed that
BigQuery Editions pricing in practice, late July 2023 Wherein we talk about BigQuery's new pricing models and how they've shaken out in our bills.
The most important columns in your AWS bill - the cost metrics. One of my earliest questions was “what do things actually cost?” On demand usage was easily available in the unblended_cost column, but if I take all DiscountedUsage line items (ones that are covered by a reservation) and SUM(unblended_cost), it gives me 0. What?? This is what I
A FinOps Journey I’d like to share my story, since I didn’t choose FinOps, it chose me. It probably chose you, too. At the beginning of 2022 the greater Engineering org at my employer underwent a reorg. Part of this reorg smushed our platform Ops team and our platform Eng teams
Some days you run, some days you crawl This is a blog about FinOps, specifically life in a small shop. We'll define “small” as being a cloud spend in the low 8 figures annually, say < $30MM. That amount of money is definitely large enough for a FinOps program to make an impact at a company,