Tag: FinOps

FinOps Official Blog April 15, 2024

Cloud FinOps news from Next ‘24

Cloud Logging FinOps Monitoring April 1, 2024

Design your Landing Zone — Design Considerations Part 3 — Monitoring, Logging, Billing and Labelling (Google Cloud Adoption Series) - Landing Zone Design Considerations: Monitoring, Logging, Billing, Labelling.

FinOps March 25, 2024

Enter the FinOps Universe: The Team-Up of Finance and Cloud Tech - Some thoughts on how to organize FinOps for your organization.

Active Assist Data Studio FinOps Official Blog Terraform March 25, 2024

Unlock cloud savings with new Looker Studio Dashboard and Terraform scripts - An OSS Recommendations Dashboard to view cost savings recommendations for optimizing Google Cloud resources.

BigQuery Billing FinOps Official Blog March 25, 2024

BigQuery customers save up to 54% in TCO compared to alternative cloud data platforms - A report from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group.

BigQuery FinOps March 11, 2024

Tips and tricks to control and reduce your BigQuery bill - 7 tips to reduce BigQuery billing.

FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes March 4, 2024

Scaling GKE Standard Clusters to Zero - Scaling the size of the GKE cluster to zero nodes in various ways.

FinOps Official Blog Feb. 11, 2024

Five key things to consider when building a cloud FinOps team - This blog post delves into five key factors to consider when building a successful cloud FinOps team.

FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Feb. 5, 2024

Facts you should know about GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) - you may save $$$ in your bill and avoid painful fixes!!

Compute Engine FinOps Infrastructure Jan. 29, 2024

How to reduce your Google Cloud Compute Engine Bill by 50% with Committed Use Discounts — Part 2 - This article explains how to size, purchase, and analyze the effectiveness of Committed Use Discounts.

Billing FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Official Blog Jan. 22, 2024

Introducing granular cost insights for GKE, using Cloud Monitoring and Billing data in BigQuery - With Cloud Monitoring metrics in BigQuery (now in Preview), you can combine billing data with resource utilization metrics, empowering you to perform detailed analyses in BigQuery.

BigQuery FinOps Official Blog Jan. 22, 2024

Standardize your cloud billing data with the new FOCUS BigQuery view - a new BigQuery view that leverages the recent FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) (in a preview) to help simplify cloud cost management across clouds.

Billing DevOps FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Jan. 22, 2024

Optimizing Your Google Kubernetes Engine Costs — Part 2: The Bin Packing Problem - This article explores the bin packing problem in Kubernetes with special reference to GKE.

Billing FinOps Infrastructure Jan. 15, 2024

How to reduce your Google Cloud Compute Engine Bill by 50% with Committed Use Discounts — Part 1 - Only about 20% of the Google Cloud users I speak with have a Committed Use Discount Strategy.

Billing FinOps Networking Official Blog Jan. 15, 2024

Cloud switching just got easier: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud - Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google Cloud.

BigQuery Billing FinOps Jan. 15, 2024

Ultimate Guide to Saving Time and Money with BigQuery - Whether you’re a seasoned data professional or just beginning to explore the capabilities of BigQuery, this guide is crafted to provide you with practical, actionable insights to enhance your experience and efficiency.

FinOps Official Blog Dec. 18, 2023

FinOps Sketchnotes 2 - Meet the FinOps team

FinOps Official Blog Dec. 18, 2023

Finops Sketchnote 3 - Cost and value optimization on Google Cloud

FinOps Dec. 11, 2023

4 dimensions for driving FinOps adoption - A simple approach consisting of 4 dimensions to help structure and drive Cloud FinOps adoption.

FinOps Terraform Nov. 20, 2023

FinOps Cost Management using Terraform Cloud Run Tasks - Learn how to manage Google Cloud costs using a Terraform Cloud Custom Run Task to dynamically control infrastructure as code deployments.

Billing FinOps Official Blog Nov. 20, 2023

Demystifying Cloud Pricing - Shedding some light on the cloud pricing models that apply to all major cloud service providers (CSPs), not just Google Cloud, and how you can use these insights to understand more about how you’re using your cloud platform.

FinOps Official Blog Nov. 20, 2023

FinOps Sketchnotes: Introducing Cloud FinOps - Over the next several months, we’ll be featuring Sketch Notes like the one above designed to demystify Cloud FinOps and Google Cloud Platform services.

BigQuery Billing FinOps GCP Experience Oct. 9, 2023

How to reduce your BigQuery costs? - 4 practical examples within the Modern Data Network from BlaBlaCar, Nickel, Toucan Toco and Libeo.

FinOps Official Blog Oct. 2, 2023

Five quick ways to optimize your cloud spend with Google Cloud FinOps - A quick look at a few essential cloud cost optimization methods that you can easily implement using Google Cloud, along with many other FinOps strategies.

Billing FinOps Sept. 25, 2023

GCP Billing & Cost Management - A summary of GCP billing & cost management, related tools and some strategies.

FinOps Sept. 18, 2023

FinOps: A Google Cloud 2023 Perspective - An introduction to the GCP FinOps framework.

Billing FinOps Infrastructure Sept. 18, 2023

Optimizing Costs of Google Kubernetes Engine - How we decreased 75% of our production GKE cluster costs.

BigQuery FinOps Sept. 18, 2023

Controlling our Data Platform Costs at BlaBlaCar - Tips and Feedback from Blablacar’s journey towards cutting costs in the data platform.