Efficient Cloud FinOps

From theory to practice, the book uses a step-by-step approach for explaining the methods, strategies, best practices, initiatives, and examples around cloud economics and cost optimization for Azure, AWS, and GCP

Key FeaturesLearn cost optimization best practices on different cloud services using FinOps principles and examplesGain hands-on knowledge for improving cost estimations and create cost reduction plans in Azure, AWS and GCPPresents analysis of case studies to illustrate how FinOps is applied in different real world scenariosPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionFinOps practices which aim to optimize cloud financial management, have been on the rise over the past few years. This is due to an increase in new challenges in Cloud adoption that companies need to tackle, especially keeping costs at bay while making the most out of cloud budgets.

This book will help you understand how FinOps is implemented in organizations worldwide through team collaboration and proper cloud governance. It presents FinOps from a practical point of view covering all three Inform, Optimize, and Operate. It includes how to interpret and read cloud billing data and definition and design for key KPIs and dashboards that will help to allocate and properly distribute costs. Key features of cloud services such as reserved instances, rightsizing of cloud services, scaling and automation, that enable cost optimization will also be covered. You’ll learn architectural concepts and best practices that can help you design better and more optimized solutions. To close the circle, additional possible synergies and future challenges, such as Artificial Intelligence and cloud sustainability are included in this book as well.

After reading this book, you’ll be able to implement FinOps practices on any of the three major public clouds and gain insights and ideas to help your organization in their business growth.

What you will learnExplore the cloud adoption and cost optimization challengesUnderstand how FinOps fits in organizations and its conceptsDeep dive into FinOps synergies with DevOps, IaC, and change managementExplore FinOps practices with tools such as Azure Advisor, AWS CUDOS or GCP Cost ReportsEstimate and optimize costs using cloud services key features and best practicesImplement cost dashboards and reports to improve visibility and controlUnderstand FinOps roles and processes that can help organizationsApply FinOps in real-life examples and multicloud architecturesWho this book is forThis book is intended for cloud engineers, cloud and solutions architects as well as DevOps and SysOps engineers interested in learning more about FinOps and cloud financial management for efficiently architecting, designing, and operating software solutions and infrastructure using the public clouds. This book will be also useful for team leads, project managers, and financial teams who are interested in getting the most out of cloud resources. Some prior knowledge of cloud computing and major public clouds will be needed to get the most out of this book.

Table of ContentsIntroduction to FinOps PrinciplesUnderstanding how FinOps fits in Cloud GovernanceDesigning and executing the tagging and naming convention strategiesEstimating Cloud Solutions Costs and Initiative SavingsImproving Cost visibility with Da