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AWS FinOps Simplified

You're reading from   AWS FinOps Simplified Eliminate cloud waste through practical FinOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803247236
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Chung Peter Chung
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: FinOps Foundation 2. Part 1: Managing Your AWS Inventory FREE CHAPTER
3. Chapter 2: Establishing the Right Account Structure 4. Chapter 3: Managing Inventory 5. Chapter 4: Planning and Metrics Tracking 6. Chapter 5: Governing Cost and Usage 7. Part 2: Optimizing Your AWS Resources
8. Chapter 6: Optimizing Compute 9. Chapter 7: Optimizing Storage 10. Chapter 8: Optimizing Networking 11. Chapter 9: Optimizing Cloud-Native Environments 12. Part 3: Operationalizing FinOps
13. Chapter 10: Data-Driven FinOps 14. Chapter 11: Driving FinOps Autonomously 15. Chapter 12: Management Functions 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Optimizing Cloud-Native Environments

Compute, networking, and storage form the bulk of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cost and usage. We’ve covered the services that are most common in these categories, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), AWS’s various database services, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). However, given that AWS’ complete portfolio exceeds 200 services, we’ve only scratched the surface.

This chapter covers optimization opportunities that result from the induced demand of cloud-native environments; what I mean by this is the demand for AWS services that are more easily obtained in the cloud than from on-premises systems. For example, automatically horizontally scaling a fleet of servers is more easily done in the cloud than on-premises because if you were to horizontally scale your on-premises servers, you would first need to buy the maximum number of servers to meet your peak capacity, whereas...

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