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AWS FinOps Simplified

Eliminate cloud waste through practical FinOps

Paid access
|Nov 2022

Manage, control, and optimize your cloud spend on AWS

Key Features

  • Learn best practices for implementing a cloud FinOps discipline with AWS
  • Set up your organization for success by enabling people, process, and organization
  • Choose the right pricing model strategy to optimize the use of AWS resources

Book Description

Much like how DevOps is a combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that advocate a collaborative working relationship between development and IT operations, FinOps encourages the same collaboration between technology and finance team, making it key relationship to establish and maintain for any thriving business.
This book will help you understand how organizations with a mature FinOps practice can decentralize cost ownership to developer teams and encourage cross-functional collaboration between business, finance, and technology, enabling speed, innovation, and business growth. You’ll focus on structuring your organization to form the right FinOps team, including a Cloud Center of Excellence, and learn how to implement practical cost savings measures with AWS tools to optimize costs in both the short as well as long term.
By the end of this cloud FinOps book, you’ll be ready to implement a successful Cloud FinOps practice for your organization to get the best value from the AWS cloud for your workloads.

What you will learn

  • Use AWS services to monitor and govern your cost, usage, and spend
  • Implement automation to streamline cost optimization operations
  • Design the best architecture that fits your workload and optimizes on data transfer
  • Optimize costs by maximizing efficiency with elasticity strategies
  • Implement cost optimization levers to save on compute and storage costs
  • Bring value to your organization by identifying strategies to create and govern cost metrics

Who this book is for

This book is for enterprise architects, cloud architects, CFOs, CTOs, product managers, finance managers, and FinOps practitioners looking to optimize their use of the cloud. This book guides you through tools, strategies, and frameworks to minimize costs, allowing your business to realize sustainable financial benefits and efficiently use cloud resources.

Table of Contents

  1. FinOps Foundation
  2. Establishing the Right Account Structure
  3. Managing Inventory
  4. Planning and Metrics Tracking
  5. Governing Cost and Usage
  6. Optimizing Compute
  7. Optimizing Storage
  8. Optimizing Networking
  9. Optimizing Cloud-Native Environments
  10. Driving FinOps Centrally
  11. Driving FinOps Autonomously
  12. Driving FinOps Collaboratively
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PDF ISBN: 978-1-80324-278-1
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2022 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 292

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