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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: 2024-08-23T16:15:04+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: A speaker (Mike Austin) frames a problem in cloud cost management: many organizations are passive consumers of cloud services who simply accept rising…

23 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A speaker (Mike Austin) frames a problem in cloud cost management: many organizations are passive consumers of cloud services who simply accept rising monthly invoices (example: agreed $25,000 → $30,000 → $35,000) without tools or actions to investigate causes. The talk contrasts passive consumption with becoming an "informed consumer," implying later discussion of tools/practices to manage and understand cloud costs.

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You know what? What I consider many people working with cloud vendors today, they're kind of passive consumers. And really, you want to change that to be an informed consumer. So passive consumers, they look at their invoice and they say, okay, I agreed to originally agreed to 25,000amonth. Now that invoice is up to 30amonth. The next month it goes to 35. And they're just accepting it, and they're really not taking any actions, and they don't have the tools to be able to figure out, well, why is this going on?