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FinOps Handbook for Microsoft Azure

You're reading from   FinOps Handbook for Microsoft Azure Empowering teams to optimize their Azure cloud spend with FinOps best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801810166
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maulik Soni Maulik Soni
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Inform
2. Chapter 1: Bringing Visibility and Allocating Cost FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Benchmarking Current Spend and Establishing Budgets 4. Chapter 3: Forecasting the Future Spend 5. Chapter 4: Case Study – Beginning the Azure FinOps Journey 6. Part 2: Optimize
7. Chapter 5: Hitting the Goals for Usage Optimization 8. Chapter 6: Rate Optimization with Discounts and Reservations 9. Chapter 7: Leveraging Optimization Strategies 10. Chapter 8: Case Study - Realize Savings and Apply Optimizations 11. Part 3: Operate
12. Chapter 9: Building a FinOps Culture 13. Chapter 10: Allocating Costs for Containers 14. Chapter 11: Metric-Driven Cost Optimization 15. Chapter 12: Developing Metrics for Unit Economics 16. Chapter 13: Case Study – Implementing Metric-Driven Cost Optimization and Unit Economics 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Activity-based cost model

Activity-based costing (ABC) is a model used in cloud FinOps to allocate costs to the specific activities that cause those costs to be incurred. ABC aims to provide a more accurate picture of the true costs of delivering cloud services by considering all the costs involved in each activity, rather than just looking at the overall costs of a product or service.

In the context of cloud FinOps, the ABC model helps teams identify the specific activities that drive the cost of delivering cloud services, and how changes in those activities can impact the costs. This information is used to inform decisions about pricing, cost optimization, and resource allocation. For example, if a particular activity is found to be driving a large portion of the costs, FinOps teams can examine ways to improve the efficiency of that activity or find alternative methods of delivering the same service that may be less expensive.

Overall, the ABC model is a useful tool for cloud...

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