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Efficient Cloud FinOps

You're reading from   Efficient Cloud FinOps A practical guide to cloud financial management and optimization with AWS, Azure, and GCP

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Published in Feb 2024
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ISBN-13 9781805122579
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Danny Obando García Danny Obando García
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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.
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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.
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Preface 1. Part 1:Get Started with FinOps
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to FinOps Principles FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding How FinOps Fits into Cloud Governance 4. Part 2:Inform – How to Increase Cost Visibility
5. Chapter 3: Designing and Executing the Tagging and Naming Convention Strategies 6. Chapter 4: Estimating Cloud Solution Costs and Initiative Saving 7. Chapter 5: Improving Cost Visibility with Dashboards and Reports 8. Part 3:Optimize – How to Get the Most out of Cloud Resources
9. Chapter 6: Implementing IaaS Compute Optimization 10. Chapter 7: Implementing PaaS and Other Compute Optimization Initiatives 11. Chapter 8: Implementing Database Optimization 12. Chapter 9: Implementing Storage Optimization 13. Part 4:Operate – How to Set Up a Governance Model around Cloud Costs
14. Chapter 10: Designing and Implementing FinOps KPIs 15. Chapter 11: Defining New FinOps Roles and Processes 16. Part 5:Hands-On Cost Optimization with Real-Life Use Cases and More
17. Chapter 12: Case Studies for Cost Optimization 18. Chapter 13: Wrapping up and Looking ahead 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reserved capacity

As we covered in the previous chapter, Reserved Instances, even with their attached trade-offs, are a great way to get some savings in stable environments.

For IaaS solutions, please consider the options that we already covered in the previous chapter as well, as all of those also apply to databases.

In PaaS database services, however, Reserved Instance offerings are limited. In this section, we will go through the different database services that support this purchasing model.

Azure

These are the PaaS database services that support Reserved Instances and the discounts that you get by using them:

Service

Region

1 year discount

3 year discount

Azure SQL**

West Europe

16-21%

25-36%

Azure SQL Managed Instance...

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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.
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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.
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