Our E-Books

60+ Actionable Cloud Cost Saving and Avoidance Opportunities

In this E-Book we share 60+ proven opportunities to save and avoid cloud spend. These proven insights are actionable today. We indicate if these apply to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

Where applicable we provide references to tools. Availability of 3rd Party Tools is indicated as (T) in the below table. Please let us know if you are interested to learn more about the tools we have selected and recommend to our customers.

We have split the ideas into those that apply to cost saving vs. those that apply for cost avoidance:

Cost Saving – focused on ensuring you pay the lowest possible rate for your use;
Cost Avoidance – focused on ensuring you use as little service as is required.
For a proven 5 step approach to cost saving that helps you put all of the below into practice, read our blog on this topic.

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FinOps Desired State

In this E-Book, we share our identified FinOps Desired State Checkpoints.

Through our FinOps Assessment we validate your or your service providers Cloud Financial Cost Management operation against those Checkpoints. By doing so, you get a clear definition of your (service provider) status today.

The FinOps Foundation calls them Capabilities. They are core to our engagements and provide a sense of purpose, shape and direction.

We identify 3 Core Capabilities of the Desired States: Inform, Optimise and Operate.
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Understanding the AWS Cloud Billing and Cross Charging Challenge

This E-Book is based on our experience in managing a large, multi- customer and global AWS managed service spend.

We have split the challenges into two groups:

Challenges from a Customer Perspective - The perspective of the recipients of bills and cross-charges.

Challenges from a Cloud Centre of Excellence or Service Provider perspective - The perspective of the central FinOps billing management team.

Understanding your challenges, and agreeing them across all participants is the start of resolution.

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The I-S-A Approach to Cloud Cost Saving

Experience shows that most cloud cost reduction initiatives are only launched when things are properly out of control.
In this E-Book we explore the causes of this , and we present an approach that is aimed at breaking through these barriers: I-S-A.

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