How to Optimize Azure Costs and Improve Cloud Efficiency with FinOps

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, Dustin Mullenix from KPMG talks about his role leading a FinOps team that handles Azure spend for KPMG's audit business.

He shares how internal FinOps teams work with consulting groups, the challenges of Azure's service tiers like managed disks and SQL options, and the trade-offs between cost and performance. Dustin discusses how to handle cost changes, manage knowledge in a big company, this talk is useful for anyone dealing with cloud costs in a large setup.

Related reading:
🔹The Only Platform You Need for Azure Cost Management - https://turbo360.com/blog/the-only-platform-you-need-for-azure-cost-management

YouTube Key Moments
00:00:01 - Introduction
00:01:45 - How internal FinOps teams work with consulting at KPMG.
00:02:30 - Comparing Azure and AWS complexity
00:05:56 - Handling cost increases and understanding business context.
00:06:54 - Managing knowledge and people in a large organization.
00:10:22 - Backgrounds that help in FinOps roles.
00:14:00 - Auto-scaling features in Azure services like AKS and App Service.
00:17:16 - Measuring value and using unit economics for cloud spend.
00:23:32 - Dustin's background and skills for talking to different teams.
00:25:23 - Future focus on AI and Gen AI for FinOps work.
00:26:40 - Sources for staying up to date on tech changes.

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