In this episode, Simon talks to Jeff Duresky. He's a senior FinOps commercial architect at Amazon Web Services.
So what is FinOps? Jeff explains that FinOps or cloud financial management is really about analysing and managing your spend on the cloud. This applies to software companies who are often hosting their product online, but also pretty much every company nowadays is migrating a lot of their internal IT servers and infrastructure up to the cloud because it's much more efficient, it's a great way to save money in a lot of different ways.
Jeff's got a finance background, data-driven insights have been a theme of his career thus far. His favourite quote is effort is a choice. So he's somebody who works hard to achieve his goals.
In the episode, he shares his tips and tricks on how to get a handle on your IT and cloud spend, how to unlock the total value of cloud for your business.
Managing cloud spend can be complex. You've got massive data sets, complex pricing. Any number of people in your IT or software engineering departments could be provisioning infrastructure any time of the day. So understanding who provisions it, who owns it, who's paying for it, and who needs to switch it off,is really important.
So Jeff's got some great tips for us. His playbook is, I believe, I'd say your golden ticket to cloud success.
This is a really great episode. If you're spending a lot on IT and cloud, then there are some great advice in here for you. Enjoy it.
So here we go!
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