Finops
43 items tagged with "finops"
Best Practices5
FinOps Cloud Cost Best Practices
Shared responsibility model for cloud spend: Inform, Optimize, Operate phases.
AWS Well-Architected Sustainability Pillar
AWS guidance for reducing the environmental impact of cloud workloads by maximizing utilization, right-sizing, and choosing efficient regions, services, and hardware.
LLM Cost Optimization
LLM cost optimization reduces the spend of running language model applications through model selection, caching, prompt efficiency, and token-aware design without sacrificing quality.
Cloud Cost Allocation and Tagging
Cloud cost allocation and tagging is the FinOps practice of labeling cloud resources with consistent metadata so spend can be attributed accurately to teams, products, and environments.
Green Software Engineering
Green software engineering is the practice of building applications that are carbon-efficient, energy-efficient, and carbon-aware, reducing the environmental impact of software at every layer.
Anti-Patterns4
Over-Provisioning
Allocating far more compute, memory, or capacity than workloads need, wasting money for headroom that is rarely used.
Under-Provisioning
Allocating too little capacity to save money, leaving workloads starved so they slow down, fail, or fall over under load.
Cloud Bill Shock
An unexpectedly huge cloud invoice arriving because spend was never tracked, attributed, or governed until the bill landed.
Lift and Shift Without Optimization
Moving applications to the cloud unchanged and stopping there, inheriting on-prem inefficiencies while paying cloud prices and gaining none of the benefits.
Tutorials2
How to set up cost budgets and alerts on AWS
Create AWS Budgets with thresholds and notifications to catch cost overruns before the bill arrives.
How to set up budgets and cost alerts on Google Cloud
Create Google Cloud budgets with threshold alerts and Pub/Sub automation to control project spend.
Blueprints10
On-Prem Datacenter to AWS Blueprint
Migrate an on-premises datacenter to AWS using a phased 7 Rs strategy with a landing zone, lift-and-shift, and selective re-platforming.
On-Prem Datacenter to Azure Blueprint
Migrate an on-premises datacenter to Microsoft Azure using Cloud Adoption Framework landing zones, Azure Migrate, and phased rehost-then-modernize waves.
On-Prem Datacenter to Google Cloud Blueprint
Migrate an on-premises datacenter to Google Cloud using the landing zone blueprint, Migrate to Virtual Machines, and phased rehost-and-optimize waves.
Lift-and-Shift to Re-Platform Blueprint
Take rehosted cloud workloads from a lift-and-shift phase and progressively re-platform them onto managed and serverless services for better cost and operations.
OpenStack Private Cloud to AWS Blueprint
Migrate workloads from a self-operated OpenStack private cloud to AWS, retiring the IaaS operational burden and adopting managed services.
On-Prem Warehouse to Snowflake Blueprint
Migrate an on-premises data warehouse to Snowflake for elastic, separated storage and compute with pay-per-use scaling.
On-Prem Warehouse to BigQuery Blueprint
Migrate an on-premises data warehouse to Google BigQuery for serverless, petabyte-scale analytics with separated storage and compute.
On-Prem Warehouse to Amazon Redshift Blueprint
Migrate an on-premises data warehouse to Amazon Redshift for managed, columnar MPP analytics integrated with the AWS data stack.
Hadoop to Databricks (Spark) Blueprint
Migrate on-prem Hadoop and MapReduce workloads to Databricks on cloud object storage with Apache Spark and Delta Lake.
Teradata to Cloud Warehouse Blueprint
Migrate a Teradata enterprise warehouse to a cloud warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift) to retire appliance costs.
Reference Architectures1
Playbooks7
FinOps Cost Optimization Program Playbook
A phased program to establish FinOps practice, gain cloud cost visibility, and drive sustained savings through accountability and automation.
On-Prem to Azure Migration Program Playbook
A phased program to migrate an on-premises estate to Microsoft Azure with assessment, landing zone, wave migration, and optimization.
Multi-Cloud Operating Model Playbook
A phased program to operate workloads across two or more public clouds with consistent governance, identity, and delivery while avoiding accidental lock-in.
Serverless Backend Migration Program Playbook
A program to migrate suitable backend workloads to serverless functions with cost, cold-start, and observability controls.
On-Prem Warehouse to Snowflake Program Playbook
Migrate a legacy on-prem data warehouse to Snowflake, including workload analysis, ELT redesign, governance, and decommissioning.
Data Warehouse to BigQuery Program Playbook
Migrate analytics workloads to Google BigQuery with serverless design, partitioning strategy, governance, and cost controls.
Cloud Cost and FinOps Program Playbook
A program to bring financial accountability to cloud spend through cost visibility, allocation, optimization, and continuous governance.
Checklists8
Cloud Migration Readiness Checklist
Verify your organization, applications, and operations are ready before moving workloads from on-premises to the cloud.
AWS Landing Zone Setup Checklist
Stand up a secure, multi-account AWS foundation with guardrails, networking, and logging before workloads arrive.
GCP Landing Zone Setup Checklist
Establish a secure Google Cloud foundation with a resource hierarchy, org policies, shared VPC, and centralized logging.
Cloud Cost Optimization Checklist
Systematically reduce cloud spend through visibility, rightsizing, commitments, and architectural changes without harming reliability.
AWS Well-Architected Review Checklist
Run a structured Well-Architected review across the six pillars to find and prioritize risks in an AWS workload.
Multi-Cloud Migration Readiness Checklist
Assess whether your organization is ready to operate across more than one cloud provider before committing to multi-cloud.
Cloud Landing Zone Security Checklist
Verify a multi-account cloud landing zone enforces identity, network, guardrails, and logging before workloads are onboarded.
LLM Cost Optimization Review Checklist
Review items for reducing the cost of an LLM application without degrading quality, covering prompts, caching, and model choice.
Benchmarks3
Cost-per-Request Benchmark
Measures the fully loaded cloud cost of serving a single unit of work, attributing compute, memory, network, and storage spend to throughput.
Cloud Egress Cost Efficiency Benchmark
Measures the cost and volume of data leaving cloud environments, attributing egress spend to flows, regions, and services to surface optimization targets.
SPECpower_ssj2008
Benchmark measuring server energy efficiency by reporting performance per watt across graduated load levels from idle to peak.
Glossaries3
Spot Instance
A spot instance is spare cloud compute capacity offered at a deep discount that the provider can reclaim with little notice, suited to fault-tolerant and interruptible workloads.
Reserved Instance
A reserved instance is a cloud pricing model in which a customer commits to using compute capacity for a one- or three-year term in exchange for a significant discount over on-demand rates.
Egress
Egress is the movement of data out of a network, system, or cloud provider, often metered and billed; in cloud computing it commonly refers to data transfer leaving a provider's network to the internet or another region.