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