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Optimize Your Cloud Spending: Insights and Strategies

Name: Optimize Your Cloud Spending: Insights and Strategies
Uploaded: 2024-10-15T15:45:02+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: This YouTube video (speaker: Mike Austin) gives practical FinOps guidance for finding and removing idle or "zombie" cloud resources to reduce waste. The…

15 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (speaker: Mike Austin) gives practical FinOps guidance for finding and removing idle or "zombie" cloud resources to reduce waste. The speaker defines idle resources as powered-on but unused assets and "zombie resources" as resources that remain allocated (e.g., unattached storage) after related compute has been shut down, continuing to incur costs.

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You know, you got to go and look for idle or zombie resources. So idle resources are ones that are sitting there, not really. They're turned on, not really being used. Zombie resources is a kind of a finops term for those of you that don't know what that means. It basically is a resource where it's out there but not being used. So storage is a great example. It had a vm. It had storage. We shut the VM down, but the storage is still sitting there. It's not attached to anything, but we're paying for it. And so you really want to be able to go look for these things.