FinOps

💸 Rational Using the public cloud will let you do experiments, iterate, test new services and new capabilities; it will unleash the potential of your teams to do innovation and, in the end, reduce the time to market with innovative products. Cloud computing comes with a promise: “Pay as you go”. In fact, this statement is partially true. However, it is only accurate if you take care – really care – of your active assets on your Cloud Service Provider (CSP). ...

Quick post today about CostSaving on AWS. As you know two of my preferred subjects on Public Cloud are: Security and FinOps ! Recently, AWS introduced a way to reduce by up to 70% AWS bills using Spot instances with AWS Fargate service. It’s really easy to use, and if your workload is interruption-proof, batch jobs, or CI/CD containers, don’t hesitate to use it to drastically reduce your workloads costs. Using Terraform, you just have to specify the capacity_providers and/or the default_capacity_provider_strategy on your aws_ecs_cluster resource. ...