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Azure Ascend Unraveling Cloud Costs with Source Code Controls FinOps Magic

Name: Azure Ascend Unraveling Cloud Costs with Source Code Controls FinOps Magic
Uploaded: 2024-07-12T15:00:05+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin (speaker) describes common mistakes in early Azure adoption that lead to rising cloud costs. He parallels current Azure migration patterns…

12 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Mike Austin (speaker) describes common mistakes in early Azure adoption that lead to rising cloud costs. He parallels current Azure migration patterns with the VMware sprawl of the 2000s: teams lifted workloads into the cloud by matching on‑prem CPUs/RAM/storage to Azure instance types without consolidation or optimization, creating cost inefficiencies that require later rationalization.

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Foreign. It's very difficult and confusing to dissect the data to figure out what's going on. We know we need to optimize. I sort of almost relate the journey from azure to the VMware journey in the early 2000s where VMware came out as a technology, everybody started to deploy VMware. You had VMware sprawl. And then about, you know, eight, nine, 10 years later, everybody's like, why do we have so many VMs? It's costing us a fortune. And they did some consolidation. Same sort of thing is going to happen or is happening depending on where you are. In the adoption of Azure, we just moved workloads into the cloud. We didn't really, you know, think about it. We just said, hey, we've got, you know, eight CPUs assigned to this, this much RAM, this much storage. You went and looked for the Azure instance type that sort of matched up to that the best and deployed to it.