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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some businesses to reevaluate how they manage their cloud infrastructure and financial operations. For those that missed it, the key takeaway is that EKS extended support will cost 6x what standard support did. The switch to extended support occurred on January 31 for v1.24, and will go into effect on May 1 for v1.25, June 11 for v1.26, and July 24 for v1.27. For some organizations, these could result in a significant increase in cloud costs. These cost increases impact budgeting but also bring greater attention to version control as a critical responsibility for FinOps teams. The post Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility appeared first on Security Boulevard. View the full article

At Next ’24, we announced several FinOps innovations to help our customers inform on their cloud costs, optimize their cloud spend, and ensure no day-to-day cost surprises. Didn’t attend Next? No problem, read our summary of Google Cloud FinOps announcements here. 1. Driving cloud FinOps with game-changing billing cost data Cloud Billing cost data, specifically the output of price (p) x quantity (q), is the essential building block of any FinOps practice as you can’t optimize what you can’t see first. The Cloud FinOps team has been working hard on ensuring our cost data — what you pay for cloud — is the most timely, complete, and open. Timely: Google Cloud has focused on making end-to-end latency improvements to our cost data. During Next, we announced a reduction of 32%, bringing P99 end-to-end latency (the time it takes for 99% of costs to appear within Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery and our UI) to under 24 hours. Complete: Cloud Billing data is unique because Google Cloud streams its billing data. Streaming not only makes our billing data more timely but also more complete throughout the month because we publish net costs (including most credits) when they occur. Our cost data can be relied upon at any time — it’s not an estimate. To increase data completeness, Cloud Billing announced support for Cloud Storage costs at the bucket level and storage tags, which comes out of the box with Cloud Billing detailed data exports to BigQuery. Open: Cloud Billing helped author the v0.5 and v1.0 Preview of the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS), which aims to standardize cloud billing data into one common data schema. In conjunction with this work, we released a new BigQuery data view to help our customers compare costs and usage across clouds. The new view allows users to explore and query Google Cloud data in the FOCUS v1.0 Preview specified fields and formats. And for those of you thinking that you don’t have a team of Google developers to analyze all this great data, we’ve got you covered. We also announced the ability for FinOps to convert cost management reports into BigQuery billing queries right in the Cloud Billing console, so now anyone can easily visualize their data and dive deep — and you don’t have to be a data scientist to do it. Filter to the desired cost report view and generate its underlying query to use for exporting Billing data to BigQuery. 2. Unlocking cost anomaly detection for all with the power of AI To get ahead of cost surprises, customers can now use AI to continuously monitor costs and identify spikes that deviate from historical spend patterns with the preview of the new Cloud FinOps anomaly detection feature. Other added benefits for customers include: No setup needed: Cost anomaly detection is available in the Cloud Billing console to any Google Cloud account, which has a minimum of 30 days historical spend and $100 spend over the last 6 months. Anomaly tracking across all projects: Continuously monitor costs across all projects within an account at your specified cost impact threshold. Granular root cause analysis: Easily identify the top 3 services, regions, and SKUs that are driving unexpected cost increases with a detailed root cause analysis for every anomaly detected. Interested in giving it a try? Join the preview today to help us shape the future of this feature. A root cause analysis for an anomaly that shows the top drivers of spend including service, region, and SKU. 3. Maximizing committed use discounts with hassle-free management As the State of FinOps Report 2024 highlights, understanding and managing commitment-based discounts is a critical priority for maximizing cloud cost efficiency. Google Cloud is committed to empowering your FinOps success with a powerful suite of new features designed to optimize your committed use discounts (CUDs). These new features provide: More clarity and better control. Bring unmatched visibility in both your spend-based and resource-based commitments with Unified Committed Use Discount (CUD) Analysis, now in preview. This new integrated solution, fueled by the FinOps hub dashboard, enables you to effortlessly analyze costs at the most granular level – by project, region, or machine type. With Unified CUD Analysis, you can go beyond reporting and deliver actionable insights that directly improve your cost optimization strategies. Interested in joining? Sign up for the preview now. Better insights and tracking of your CUDs. Granular CUD metadata can bring even more transparency to your CUDs. Now, you'll find a breakdown of your CUD fees linked to individual subscription IDs within your detailed BigQuery export from Cloud Billing. Combined with the improved CSV download of your CUD inventory, you can easily track costs, analyze commitment lifecycles, and gain a comprehensive view of your commitments using your own naming conventions. More CUDs and more ways to view savings in FinOps hub: You can leverage the new CUD Analysis solution across multiple Google Compute Engine (GCE) resource families, including TPU v5e, TPU v5p, A3, H3, and C3D. Additionally, we introduced new spend-based CUDs to unlock cost savings potential for Memorystore, AlloyDB, BigTable, and Dataflow. All of these new CUDs come together for even greater cost savings opportunities in the FinOps hub, which is now generally available. The FinOps hub even comes with additional support to view top savings opportunities at the project level, so you can prioritize your optimization efforts for maximum impact. View top savings opportunities by project now within FinOps Hub, now generally available (GA). If you are still reading this, our only request for you is to sign up for any of our ongoing previews and get us your feedback today. We work closely with our customers on developing our products and value your opinions and ideas, so don’t hesitate to let us know what you think. And if this excites you, we are just getting started! We have a lot more planned for this year, so stay tuned for FinOpsX, June 19-22, 2024, where we will have a chance to meet up again in person and share even more exciting FinOps product developments! View the full article

Flexera has admitted that 2024 is a ‘complex’ year for cloud adoption as the company publishes its latest State of the Cloud report – and while cost optimisation remains key, sustainability is slowly emerging as an important differentiator. The report – the 13th – is often regarded as a benchmark study for the industry, with... Read more » The post Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud: Cost optimisation, FinOps and GenAI key takeaways appeared first on Cloud Computing News. View the full article

Companies worldwide are committed to reducing their IT carbon footprint, championing a more sustainable future through initiatives focused on efficiency and cost optimization. Cloud sustainability is not only about reducing the environmental impact of cloud usage, but also about making smart business decisions that align to corporate values, adhere to regulatory requirements, and enable the pursuit of long-term business goals. To understand the impact of cloud computing on carbon emissions, precise measurement, trustworthy data, and robust tools are essential. That’s why we’re excited to announce two new capabilities to optimize your Microsoft Azure emissions: Azure Carbon Optimization (preview) is a free, cutting-edge capability that empowers Azure developers and IT professionals to understand and optimize emissions stemming from Azure usage. By providing insights into carbon emissions and offering recommendations for enhancing cloud efficiency, this tool aligns with the Microsoft commitment to environmental responsibility and supports you in achieving your cloud sustainability goals. Microsoft Azure emissions insights (preview) in sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric enables you to unify and analyze emissions data for Azure usage. By having access to your Azure emissions data in Microsoft Fabric, you can query and drill down into Azure resource level emissions for advanced reporting and analysis.  Both tools offer a holistic solution for organizations aiming to reduce their carbon footprint by optimizing specific resources or workloads within Azure. With Azure Carbon Optimization (preview), engineering and IT teams can use ready-to-consume insights and recommendations for optimizing their carbon emissions, all within the Azure portal. Microsoft Azure emissions insights (preview) enable data analysts and engineers to dive deeper into emissions data, allowing them to slice and dice the data and perform deeper analytics using Microsoft Fabric. Once your organization can access insights into the carbon emissions generated at the resource or workload level, reduction efforts can begin. This involves optimizing cloud systems for efficiency to benefit the environment and enhance overall performance. Azure administrators can already see a company-wide view of cloud emissions in the Emissions Impact Dashboard. To optimize your carbon footprint, you can take advantage of more granular insights into carbon emissions originating from specific resources or workloads. Like any major organizational shift, reducing carbon emissions requires contributions from every corner of your company. In this blog, we will not only explore the benefits of Azure Carbon Optimization and Microsoft Azure emissions insights, but also how the FinOps framework can guide your business through the complexities of carbon emission reduction to help achieve both your environmental and financial goals. Align IT sustainability with ESG regulations Organizations around the world are setting carbon neutrality goals for themselves, which are furthered by new environmental regulations and standards introduced by global government and regulatory bodies, with a significant driver being environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations. These governmental standards dictate ESG-related actions, reporting, and disclosures. Microsoft provides offerings to help customers with their ESG reporting needs with tools and products available with Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to help your organization collect and manage more ESG data and get fuller visibility into your environmental impact. Our goal is to help prepare you for any new reporting requirements by compiling a comprehensive ESG data estate. IT sustainability plays a pivotal role in a company’s ESG management strategy because it serves as a cornerstone for mitigating environmental impact, ensuring responsible cloud usage, and reinforcing the overall commitment to sustainable development practices. There are also direct economic benefits for reducing carbon emissions, such as long-term operational cost savings. Above all, organizations that proactively address environmental issues and reduce their carbon footprint will be better positioned for long-term success, especially in a business landscape where sustainability is increasingly important. Measure and reduce your emissions with Azure Carbon Optimization Our free Azure Carbon Optimization tool, now in public preview and accessible through your Azure portal, is a window into your cloud resources emissions, ultimately leading to recommendations on how to cut back. It empowers Azure users to closely monitor and optimize their carbon footprint. Azure Carbon Optimization is designed to provide everyone in your organization, from developers, to architects, to IT professionals, with a resource-level view of emissions data. This empowers your engineers to take proactive measures to mitigate emissions and track progress right from the Azure portal. Azure Carbon Optimization uses the same carbon accounting methodology as the Emissions Impact Dashboard. Developers can work towards maximizing resource utilization while minimizing carbon emissions from the cloud, helping ensure that every deployed resource serves a purpose, eliminates waste, and reduces environmental impact. The tool also presents carbon emission reduction in equivalent terms that are easy for anyone to understand. Subsequently, it provides developers with carbon savings recommendations that are based on analyzing resource utilization. Suggestions include deleting or resizing underutilized resources. With these ready-to-consume recommendations, you can optimize your Azure usage, avoid carbon emissions, and promote sustainable development practices. This way, you not only enhance your environmental performance, but also achieve cost savings and efficiency. Perform even deeper Azure emissions analysis with Microsoft Fabric Microsoft Azure emissions insights, now in public preview, is a part of the sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. It helps unify, process, query, and perform deeper analysis of Azure emissions data. In addition to emissions data and related pipelines, Power BI dashboards are provided with Microsoft Azure emissions insights to drill-down and compare emissions data across subscriptions and resources. This helps IT administrators identify patterns in Azure emissions that evolve with time and change with Azure resource usage. Unified Azure emissions data empowers data analysts to enrich the emissions data with custom information such as department using subscriptions and resources. They can then query the data and build analytic models for interesting insights such as Azure emissions by departments and seasonality of emissions by usage. Leverage FinOps best practices to help optimize carbon emissions Fostering a culture of accountability, efficiency, and governance across an organization stands as a key objective within the FinOps framework, which aims to help organizations optimize their cloud to maximize business value. Efficiency has a positive impact on innovation by freeing up resources and allowing organizations to invest more in modernization, research, and development. FinOps supports the customer journey by establishing a cross-functional team that includes finance, IT, engineers, and business leaders to create a culture of accountability where everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage. As ESG regulations compel adherence to complex emissions reporting requirements, integrating FinOps best practices can help teams to better manage and optimize carbon emissions. When viewed through the lens of environmental awareness, FinOps can assist with best practices that foster accountability, efficiency, and governance to enable data-driven decisions. Leveraging these best practices in tandem with Azure Carbon Optimization and Microsoft Azure emissions insights empowers your organization to be a catalyst for change, transforming cloud practices into a force for sustainability by helping track, analyze, and optimize emissions towards a greener, more responsible cloud ecosystem. Reach your sustainability goals with data-driven Azure insights By employing these capabilities and adhering to FinOps practices, your organization can actively track, assess, and mitigate your carbon emissions. You’ll not only gain a detailed understanding of the emissions impact associated with your Azure resources, but also valuable insight into your compliance posture for any coming ESG regulations. Next steps Visit the Azure Carbon Optimization documentation and our new learning collection to discover more about how to start leveraging the data-driven insights provided by Azure Carbon Optimization for a more environmentally responsible and efficient operation. Continue your sustainability journey with the Azure Well-Architected Framework sustainability guidance and explore Sustainability outcomes and benefits for business through the Cloud Adoption Framework. This guidance provides insights into end-to-end sustainability considerations in your cloud estate. Visit the documentation for Microsoft Azure emissions insights and this new blog to learn more about deploying it in your Fabric environment and get started with centralizing and analyzing your Azure emissions data. This capability can be leveraged to analyze the trends of your Azure emissions over time by subscriptions and resources. For more on how FinOps best practices can help you maximize your cloud business value while addressing the complexities of carbon emission reduction, explore Microsoft’s resources for FinOps: Assess your organization’s gaps using the Microsoft FinOps Review Assessment. Gain hands-on experience with Microsoft solutions that empower FinOps through the Microsoft FinOps Interactive Guides. Explore a range of related Microsoft products and services on the FinOps on Azure homepage. Visit the Azure Carbon Optimization documentation Start leveraging data-driven insights and reduce your emissions today Learn more The post Achieving sustainable growth with Azure and FinOps best practices appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog. View the full article

The financial intricacies of Kubernetes deployments demand more than reactive measures alone. Organizations have a choice: react to costs as they arise or employ FinOps (financial operations) practices to anticipate and manage expenditures proactively. Yet the road to efficient Kubernetes FinOps is far from one-dimensional. It's an ever-evolving practice that must be fine-tuned according to operational realities and architectural demands. If a certain cost model continues to yield returns without overwhelming resources, perhaps it's due for scaling. Conversely, a recurring budgetary shortfall may signal the need for an extensive financial overhaul. View the full article

If it isn’t already clear, Google Cloud is invested in being FinOps-first. At Google Cloud Next 2023, we made some pretty exciting FinOps product announcements for Google Cloud Billing. Here are the top five: 1. Google Cloud continues to pioneer the FinOps movement: Through our strong roots in the FinOps Foundation, we announced our contributions to v 0.5 of the FinOps open billing standards FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification) project. V 0.5 provides a common language and set of definitions for data dimensions, metrics, and attributes regarding billing data. Datasets conforming to FOCUS will enable FinOps practitioners to perform common FinOps capabilities, using a generic set of instructions, regardless of the dataset origin. Why do we want to participate in a project designed to level the cloud billing data playing field across all cloud service providers (CSPs)? First, being open is a part of Google’s DNA, having contributed to foundational open source internet technologies over the past 20 years. Second, we believe that customers who innovate faster actually save money faster. We don’t want you spending time trying to decipher your cloud bills! We want you to leverage your cloud billing data to make better business decisions that fuel innovation and drive industry changes.Open, high-quality cloud cost data is non-negotiable. In support of good quality cloud cost data, Google Cloud Billing announced support for App Engine, Spanner, Firestore, and BigQuery granular, resource-level cost data that comes out of the box with theBilling detailed big query data export. To further FinOps industry adoption, we also launched a spotlight on FinOps thought leadership series on the Transform with Google Cloud thought leadership blog. In this monthly series, learn how FinOps has been adopted through real-life illustrative examples at work today from industry leaders. 2. DuetAI is trained to a sample Certified FinOps Level. As part of Duet AI in Google Cloud, FinOps practitioners can also take advantage of AI integrated assistance for Billing based on models trained on Google Cloud best practices. Tailored for FinOps practitioners, you can use Duet AI to increase your Google Cloud billing proficiency. To measure Duet AI’s FinOps IQ, we partnered with the FinOps Foundation to put Duet AI to the FinOps test — literally: Duet AI passed a similar exam to the FinOps Certified Practitioner with flying colors. You can try it for yourself here. We have a robust roadmap for Google Cloud Billing has to unlock the power of generative AI that prioritizes accuracy first, but this is just the start. Look out for more innovations in this area. 3. New FinOps Hub helps you mature your FinOps practice with smarter cost optimizations, new FinOps score, and peer benchmark: We’re focused on removing the cognitive load for cloud Finops practitioners . But when it comes to optimizing cloud spend, one of the hardest parts is knowing where to start. That is where the FinOps hub comes in. We announced theFinOps Hub public previewat Next ‘23 to provide one pane of glass to identify, adopt, and measure all cost optimizations across an entire Google Cloud landscape. WIth advanced machine learning capabilities, the FinOps hub tells users what their FinOps score is — a tangible measure of how they are using Google Cloud billing data and tools to achieve maximum cloud value, with suggestions on how to improve. Peer benchmarks (with an opt-out option) provide context with respect to how users are performing with their FinOps practice and overall rate optimizations through committed use discounts (CUDs). Additionally Google Cloud cost optimizations have also gotten a lot smarter — they’re no longer just about rate optimizations like purchasing a CUD or rightsizing a VM; rather, we recognize that cost optimizations should be orchestrated across your entire cloud landscape, doing both rate and usage cost optimizations together through personalized prescriptions, always with the ability to personalize optimizations according to business needs. The FinOps Hub includes rate and usage optimizations for a variety of Google Cloud services. Finally, the FinOps Hub provides a realized savings ledger so cloud FinOps teams can track their return on investment (ROI) on all their cost optimizations in one place, easily. 4. Budgets gets extended to engineers: We also announced a great new tool for project users to keep track of their cloud costs through the extension of the rich Cloud Billing budgets tooling. Project owners, Project Editors and Project Viewers can now create budgets and Project owners get notifications about actual or forecasted budget alerts in the Google Cloud console or through the Cloud Billing Budget API. 5. Google Cloud Billing is building for FinOps 2.0: We’re building towards a future of FinOps automation, as seen through our latest API enhancements to get a head start including the new Pricing API in public preview. The new Pricing API allows you to not only get list prices on all the available services but also account-specific custom prices and discounts, with visibility into any internal SKUs that are available to your billing account as part of your contract or agreement. The Pricing API also provides additional metadata such as SKU to service mapping, a list of SKU groups, SKUs to SKU group mapping, and a geo and product taxonomy that allows you to further slice and dice the SKUs for improved analysis. This API, along with others such as the Commitments API, provide the basis for customers to advance their own advanced cost management applications. Learn how SAP leveraged Cloud Billing APIs and data in their journey to controlling costs and building financial resilience with automation through their Google NEXT session here. To stay up-to-date on all things cloud FinOps and Google Cloud Billing, sign up for our Billing Advisory cohort at billing-cohort@googlegroups.com, where you can gain access to early features, participate in user feedback sessions, and learn about our roadmap with a group of like-minded cloud FinOps professionals.

In today’s economic times, the criticality of cost efficiency is at an all-time high. Organizations need high-quality guidance backed by products and services that help you achieve and maintain that efficiency. This is a large part of what we do today within the Cost Management team and the larger Commerce organization here at Microsoft. In that vein, we are excited to announce that Microsoft has joined the FinOps Foundation as a premier member and has joined the Governing Board defining the strategy and vision of the organization. Together, we can deliver unparalleled guidance and innovative solutions that empower organizations to increase efficiency and accelerate growth. "I’m very enthusiastic about our partnership with the FinOps Foundation and our membership as part of the FinOps community. Optimizing cloud workloads is more important than ever for companies of all sizes in all industries. For Microsoft this collaboration with the FinOps Foundation and our industry partners will empower Microsoft Cloud customers and partners to leverage the cost management best practices and industry-standard operating procedures cultivated by the FinOps community." —Vivek Dalvi, Corporate Vice President, Commerce Platform and Experiences What is the FinOps Foundation? The FinOps Foundation is a non-profit organization hosted at the Linux Foundation dedicated to advancing people who practice the discipline of cloud financial management via best practices, education, and standards. The FinOps Foundation community is made up of practitioners around the world, including many of our valued Microsoft Cloud customers and partners. The FinOps Foundation hosts working groups and special interest groups covering topics like cost and usage data standardization, containers and Kubernetes, and sustainability based on real-world stories and expertise from the community. “Microsoft is a bellwether technology leader who is aligned to our vision of accelerating the growth of FinOps practitioners with its presence, leadership, and innovation. We welcome Microsoft as a Premier Member as its membership will be a huge asset to the larger FinOps community and development and maturation of best practices across industries and the world.” —JR Storment, Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation. Microsoft and the FinOps Foundation My colleague, Jimin Li, joined the Foundation Governing Board in January and we’ve already begun participating in working groups and special interest groups, but that’s just the beginning. As we look toward our future as part of the FinOps Foundation, we’re exploring five primary focus areas over the coming months: Defining specifications and evolving best practices We are excited to join the FinOps Foundation and our industry partners in defining, evangelizing, and implementing best practices and specifications like the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). We’re already actively contributing to this program and looking forward to sharing our joint developments broadly. Aligning our collective guidance We offer a wealth of guidance from architecture documentation, like Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework, to our products, like Microsoft Cost Management and Azure Advisor. While we tell the same underlying story as the FinOps Foundation, we believe the closer our guidance is aligned to the FinOps Framework, the easier it will be for individuals and organizations to understand and implement. As a first step, I’ve contributed to the second edition of the O’Reilly Cloud FinOps book. Improving our products and services Similar to how we plan to align our guidance, we see opportunities to align our products and services to the FinOps Framework while learning more about customer needs from the vibrant multicloud community of practitioners in the FinOps Foundation forums. We view this as an end-to-end experience for people and organizations to adopt and for many, that can sometimes start and end with the product itself. We aim to be good citizens in the community by contributing and listening. Advancing training and certification programs The FinOps Foundation offers several great training and certification programs, such as the FinOps Certified Practitioner and FinOps Certified Professional, geared towards helping people advance within their careers and growing the community at large. We look forward to working with the FinOps Foundation to improve material specifically focused on the Microsoft Cloud and to certify relevant Microsoft teams in FinOps. Fun fact: Microsoft has the largest number of FinOps Certified Professionals at any organization in the world! Engaging with the community I’ve mentioned the FinOps Foundation community several times now, but I’m not sure I’ve really done it justice. With over 8,700 members and growing rapidly, the community behind the FinOps Foundation is truly the driving force of the success of the organization. We are extremely enthusiastic about this opportunity to collaborate with and learn from this passionate community as we engage in various programs and initiatives, like the upcoming FinOps X conference where Microsoft is a platinum sponsor. The more we learn, the better we can support you and help you achieve more. What’s next? We’re looking forward to the many exciting opportunities ahead of us as we partner with FinOps Foundation, seeking to make cost management and optimization—or "FinOps"—easier to adopt and implement within the Microsoft Cloud. We only scratched the surface here, so stay tuned by following Cost Management updates over the coming months. To learn more about FinOps Foundation and to participate in the community, please join us at finops.org or in person at FinOps X in June. View the full article

Google Cloud Next ‘22 kicks off on October 11 and is one of our favorite times of the year because it brings together a global community of builders, innovators, developers, learners, and leaders shaping the future of cloud computing. Packed with 24 hours of in-person and global digital broadcasts, you’ll find content and experiences to help you face your cloud challenges head on. But with all that Next ‘22 has to offer, you may be wondering where to begin. If you want to learn from industry experts and real-world customers on how to optimize your costs on Google Cloud and create efficient solutions to maximize your value, then look no further than the following five Next ‘22 sessions - a specially curated playlist of sessions from the Google Cloud FinOps Digital Transformation Practice. Cost Optimization in the cloud: best practices for startups (INV113) With the current state of venture capital investment, it’s more important than ever to maximize your cash on hand and extend your runway. In this session, we’ll take a look at the current investment landscape and offer best practices and tips to keep the doors open until the market opens up again. Learn more on how Nuro partners with Google Cloud to plan, measure, and create an actionable plan to optimize its cloud spend and drive cost efficiency with Google Cloud FinOps leading practices. >> Add this session to your Next ‘22 Playlist << Additional resources: Maximize business value with Cloud FinOps Unlocking value of cloud FinOps with new operating model Forbes: Secret to unlocking the economic potential of public cloud Top 10 ways to lower your costs on Google Cloud (MOD103) Worrying about cloud costs? In working with hundreds of Google Cloud customers, we curated a list of the top 10 cost optimization techniques to optimize Google Cloud services, including Compute Engine, BigQuery, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage and more. Listen to real-world stories on how General Mills approached the discipline of cost savings at scale and accelerated their adoption of Cloud FinOps. This session also covers exciting new features and announcements coming out the week of Google Cloud Next! >> Add this session to your Next ‘22 Playlist << Additional resources: Google Cloud Architecture Framework: Cost Optimization How to Optimize Google Cloud Costs: Compute, Networking, and Cloud Storage Best practices for optimizing Google Cloud costs Optimize for reliability, innovation and cost-efficiency with GKE (OPE201) In this session we will explore the best practices required to continuously deliver business value by running reliable, innovative, performant, and cost-efficient applications on Google Kubernetes Engine. You will learn how to leverage metrics from Google Cloud, as well as tips and tricks to lower your Kubernetes costs by mastering cost optimization signals. >> Add this session to your Next ‘22 Playlist << Additional resources: Best practices for running cost optimized applications on GKE YouTube series on understanding and optimizing GKE Hands on Training: Optimize cost for Google Kubernetes Engine Automating the solution to cloud cost optimization (PAR18) Effective cost management is key to continued acceleration and innovation in the public cloud. Learn from customers like Taboola on how they are partnering with DoiT International to implement cloud cost optimization using automated technology like Flexsave from DoiT. >> Add this session to your Next ‘22 Playlist << Additional resources: Google Cloud Partner: DoiT International FlexSave by DoiT Five best practices for reducing Google Cloud costs (PAR31) Learn more about tools and techniques such as Recommender services, BigQuery Flex Slots, advanced billing reports, and VM maintenance policies. In this session, ROI training will show you how these tools and best practices can have a massive impact on lowering your Google Cloud spend. >> Add this session to your Next ‘22 Playlist << Additional resources: Best practices to optimize your cloud costs Active Assist: Insights and Recommendations Getting started with Recommendations Hub Related Article Read Article

Two mainstays drive most application migration and modernization initiatives. First, organizations are moving workloads to the cloud as an innovation catalyst. Achieving their strategic goals requires the speed, agility, reliability and advanced technical capabilities available to them in a hyperscale cloud. Second, they’re intent on ensuring the return on investment (ROI) through cost optimization, which […] View the full article