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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
Publisher Packt
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

Introduction to FinOps Principles

This chapter aims to introduce the topic we are going to cover throughout the book, which is FinOps, a methodology relating to cloud financial optimization. We will explain why it is so important, and why it has become one of the biggest current IT trends.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • What is FinOps, and why do we need another buzzword?
  • Why FinOps?
  • The three pillars of FinOps
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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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