9781801819879_

Establish successful FinOps practice and bring financial visibility to define cost optimization goals and apply learnings to realize savings for your organization.

Key Features

Build FinOps team and collaborate across organization to save money in economic challenging times
Use deep insights from native Azure cost management tools for resource usage and rate optimization
Apply gained knowledge to run a successful FinOps practice and help business grow by reinvesting savings
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format

Book Description

In an economic uncertain and challenging time, cost savings is a top priority for every business to optimize their spending for Microsoft Azure cloud services. You must understand how to build, run, and sustain repeated cost optimization initiatives across the organization by collaborating with finance, procurement, product, and engineering teams.

This book offers a concise breakdown of all activities in Informe, Optimize and Operate phases and aligns them with industry standard FinOps practices. You will begin by creating visibility of your existing workload in Azure and allocate the cost for business units or applications. Then you will benchmark current spend in various cloud services and establish a monthly, quarterly, or yearly budget. Further, you will delve into the Optimize phase with defining savings goals and KPIs. You will also learn negotiation with cloud provider to optimize the rate by committing to certain consumption or purchase reservations and savings plans. Next, you will gain experience with container cost allocation and metric driven cost optimization strategies. Finally, you will develop the metrics for calculating unit economics.

By the end of this book, you will gain crystal clear understanding with real world examples, use cases, and scenarios to achieve mastery for Azure cloud financial management.

What you will learn

Learn FinOps Informe, Optimize and Operate model for Microsoft Azure
Choose from Reservations, Savings Plans, and Spot VMs to reduce cost
Discover resource waste using provided pre-built workbooks
Write an effective financial business case and build a FinOps strategy
Relate what you learned with three real world use case
Accurately forecast future cloud spend and track budgets

Who This Book Is For

This book is for cloud operations professionals and enterprise architects who want to start Cloud financial management practice for Microsoft Azure. Individuals from cloud governance, finance, procurement, product, and engineering teams along with CFOs and CTOs can significantly benefit from clear guidance to implement Informe, Optimize and Operate phases of FinOps specifically in context of Microsoft Azure. Readers are expected to have some familiarity with basic financial terms, analytics tools, and Microsoft Azure cloud.

Bringing Visibility and Allocating Cost
Benchmarking current spend and establish budget
Forecasting the future spend
Case Study - Beginning the Azure FinOps Journey
Hitting the Goals for Usage Optimization
Rate Optimization with Discounts and Reservations
Leveraging Optimization Strategies
Case Study - - Realize Saving & apply optimizations
Building culture of FinOps
Allocating cost for containers
Metric-Driven Cost Optimization
Developing metrics for Unit economics
Case Study - Implementing Metric driven cost optimization

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Drive financial visibility, set cost optimization goals, and reap savings for your organization with proven practices and invaluable insights

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Key Features

Build a FinOps team and foster cross-organizational collaboration to optimize costs
Gain a deep insight into resource usage and rates to unlock the secrets of cost optimization
Apply your FinOps expertise to run a successful practice, reinvesting savings into new feature development

Book Description

To gain a competitive edge in todays unpredictable economic climate, youll need to unravel the mystery of saving costs on Microsoft Azure Cloud. This book helps you do just that with proven strategies for building, running, and sustaining repeated cost optimization initiatives across your organization. Youll learn how to collaborate with finance, procurement, product, and engineering teams to optimize your cloud spend and achieve cost savings that can make a significant impact on your bottom line.

The book begins by showing you how to effectively monitor and manage your cloud usage, identify cost-saving opportunities, and implement changes thatll reduce your overall spend. Whether youre a small start-up or a large enterprise, this book will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to achieve cost savings and maintain a lean cloud infrastructure. As you advance, youll find out how to benchmark your current cloud spend and establish a budget for cloud usage. Throughout the chapters, youll learn how to negotiate with your cloud provider to optimize your rate, allocate cost for the container, and gain a solid understanding of metric-driven cost optimization.

By the end of this FinOps book, youll have become proficient in Azure Cloud financial management with the help of real-world examples, use cases, and scenarios.

What you will learn

Get the grip of all the activities of FinOps phases for Microsoft Azure
Understand architectural patterns for interruptible workload on Spot VMs
Optimize savings with Reservations, Savings Plans, Spot VMs
Analyze waste with customizable pre-built workbooks
Write an effective financial business case for savings
Apply your learning to three real-world case studies
Forecast cloud spend, set budgets, and track accurately

Who this book is for

This book is for cloud governance experts, finance managers, procurement specialists, product developers, and engineering teams looking to get clear and actionable guidance needed to implement all the phases of the FinOps life cycle in the Microsoft Azure context. This book is ideal for anyone with a basic understanding of financial terms, analytics tools, and the Azure cloud.

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FinOps Handbook for Microsoft Azure

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