What's new in Cloud FinOps?
Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois get together to discuss what's new in the world of cloud when it comes to FinOps. There are two monthly episodes, one where we'll discuss the top stories we've found from this month and a second episode where we bring in a friend of the show to talk to us about a topic of their choosing.
What's new in Cloud FinOps?
WNiCF - September 2023 - News
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Frank and Stephen review the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for September 2023. A lot of updates this month.
Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation.
Azure virtual machine sizes naming conventions
September 2023
Data/DBs
Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)
- Currency selection in Cost analysis smart views View your non-USD charges in USD or switch between the currencies you have charges in to view the total cost for that currency only. To change currency, select Customize at the top of the view and select the currency you would like to apply. Currency selection is not applicable to those with only USD charges. Currency selection is enabled by default in Labs.(S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/cost-anomaly-detection-custom-monitor-limit-500/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/quicksight-tagging-users-cost-allocation/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/amazon-cloudwatch-eks-control-plane-vended-logs/ (F)
Commitment
- Azure Service Fabric now offers savings plan pricing.(S)
Savings
- Several offers across multiple Azure services have gone generally available, including Virtual Machines (Bpsv2, Bsv2, and Basv2 series), Block Blobs and Azure Data Lake Storage (Cold tier offers), Microsoft Defender (malware scanning), and Azure Monitor (Prometheus Queries). These offers will help you optimize your costs and get the most out of your Azure solutions.(S)
- Generally available: Azure Container Apps dedicated plan. (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/aws-backup-resource-exclusion-aws-cloudformation-stack/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/amazon-sagemaker-inference-multi-model-endpoints-pytorch/(F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/aws-cloud-map-api-service-revision/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/amazon-location-services-price-reduction-tracking-geofencing/ (F)
Storage
Instances
- Virtual Machine services (DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series in public preview) (S) (Gen 4th Gen Int and Mem 4th Gen)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/amazon-rds-m6id-r6id-database-instances/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/amazon-ec2-r7iz-instances/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/amazon-ec2-c7i-instances/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-r7a-instances-powered-by-4th-gen-amd-epyc-processors-for-memory-optimized-workloads/ (F)
GCP Preview: c3d-standard, c3d-highmem, c3d-highcpu, and c3d-standard-lssd virtual machines are available in the following regions:
Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America, us-central1
Moncks Corner, South Carolina, North America, us-east1
Ashburn, Virginia, North America , us-east4
St. Ghislain, Belgium, Europe, europe-west1
Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe, europe-west4
Jurong West, Singapore, Asia, asia-southeast1 (S)
Sustainability
Misc/Silly
- Huge amounts of retirement announcements from Azure in September. (S)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/wordpress-on-app-service-free-hosting-plan-now-in-public-preview/ (S)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/ga-vertical-pod-autoscaling-addon-for-aks/ (S)
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/azure-ai-translator-s2s4-billing-instances-will-be-retired-on-1-october-2026-transition-to-commitment-tiers-for-discounted-pr/ (S)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/aws-compute-optimizer-rightsizing-g4dn-p3-instances/ (F)
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/09/daily-disbursements-aws-marketplace-sellers/
