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December 2024

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Beyond cost optimization: Key FinOps trends heading into 2025

Dec 19, 2024 By Li-Or Amir In Spot
Picture this: A chic Barcelona seaside hotel, gusty autumn winds, endless tapas, and the Rioja flowing. Could there be a better setting for a FinOps conversation? That was the setting for FinOpsX Europe! It brought together 500 practitioners from EMEA, APAC, and even LATAM. Everyone was in the mood to learn and interact: exchange ideas, share challenges, and find solutions. Here’s a peek at the hottest discussion topics.
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Cloud Control Ep #32 It's Not Quite Rocket Science Randall Hunt's Journey from NASA to Open Source

Dec 6, 2024 By Spot In Spot
Today, Shon speaks with Randall Hunt, CTO of Kaelin. From his unconventional journey starting as a NASA physicist to becoming a key player in MongoDB's early days and later at AWS, Hunt shares invaluable insights on cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and the future of tech leadership. This episode explores everything from maintaining developer passion after decades in tech to practical advice for newcomers, while offering exclusive insider perspectives on AWS re:Invent and the changing landscape of cloud providers.
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3 ways to better use Effective Savings Rate (ESR)

Dec 2, 2024 By Li-Or Amir In Spot
In the realm of FinOps, new concepts emerge all the time. One pivotal metric recently introduced by the FinOps Foundation is the Effective Savings Rate (ESR). ESR measures the savings achieved through various cloud commitment deals, like Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs). This blog discusses how organizations can use the ESR metric while understanding its limitations and how to overcome them.
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Continuous infrastructure optimization: A cornerstone to a successful FinOps strategy

Dec 1, 2024 By Tzvika Zaiffer In Spot
The Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) discipline aims to understand and manage cloud costs while maximizing the value from cloud investments. While controlling cloud spend remains a key business objective, focusing FinOps efforts primarily on visibility and cost-cutting doesn’t get to crux of the problem and may even snowball into bigger issues – especially given the growing complexity of the cloud and the stakeholders involved in managing it.
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