Efficient Cloud FinOps: A practical guide to cloud financial management and optimization with AWS, Azure, and GCP

by Alfonso San Miguel Sánchez, Danny Obando García

Overview

In response to the escalating challenges of cloud adoption, where balancing costs and maximizing cloud values is paramount, FinOps practices have emerged as the cornerstone of fi nancial optimization. This book serves as your comprehensive guide to understanding how FinOps is implemented in organizations worldwide through team collaboration and proper cloud governance.
Presenting FinOps from a practical point of view, covering the three phases—inform, optimize, and operate—this book demonstrates an end-to-end methodology for optimizing costs and performing financial management in the cloud. You’ll learn how to design KPIs and dashboards for judicious cost allocation, covering key features of cloud services such as reserved instances, rightsizing, scaling, and automation for cost optimization. This book further simplifi es architectural concepts and best practices, enabling you to design superior and more optimized solutions. Finally, you’ll discover potential synergies and future challenges, from the integration of artifi cial intelligence to cloud sustainability considerations, to prepare for the future of cloud FinOps.
By the end of this book, you’ll have built the expertise to seamlessly implement FinOps practices across major public clouds, armed with insights and ideas to propel your organization toward business growth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805129691
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	02/23/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	446
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Alfonso San Miguel Sánchez is a Multicloud Architect, with a deep experience both on premises and in the Cloud. He has always enjoyed being close to development teams, implementing codes, DevOps, and other methodologies into his way of working, with a strong focus on automation. Alfonso has a degree in Computer Science from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and MSc degree in Machine Learning. After his studies, he worked as an architect for Tecnicas Reunidas, Avanade and B2Holding, where he works now as Lead Cloud Architect. Though passionate about cloud governance, in the past few years, he specializes in FinOps developing a complete methodology around the practice.
Danny Obando García is a Multicloud Data Architect, who has worked in varied roles during his professional career, always aiming to create reliable and scalable Data and Infrastructure solutions by applying different frameworks and methodologies. Danny has a degree in Computer Science from Universitat Oberta Catalunya (UOC), which he complemented with MSc in Artificial Intelligence for Financial Markets. With a rich IT experience for about 15 years, he is currently leading Data strategy for Holaluz, one of the biggest players in the Spain Energy market. Before this, he had experience of working and implementing FinOps for the biggest banking group in Spain.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to FinOps Principles
2. Understanding How FinOps Fits in Cloud Governance
3. Designing and Executing the Tagging and Naming Convention Strategies
4. Estimating Cloud Solutions Costs and Initiative Savings
5. Improving Cost visibility with Dashboards and Reports
6. Implementing IaaS Compute Optimization
7. Implementing PaaS and Other Compute Optimization Initiatives
8. Implementing Databases Optimization
9. Implementing Storage Optimization
10. Designing and Implementing FinOps KPIs
11. Defining New FinOps Roles and Processes
12. Case Studies for Mastering Cost Optimization
13. Wrapping Up and Looking Ahead