Finops
Automating FinOps: Tips and Best Practices
Tips and best practices for automating FinOps: tagging enforcement, anomaly detection, scheduled shutdowns, and the workflows worth not automating.
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FinOps & cloud cost optimisation.
Event
Meet CloudMonitor at FinOpsX 2024 in San Diego
CloudMonitor is at FinOpsX 2024 in San Diego, booth B3 — come grab a custom FinOpsX Calavera (only 10 in the world) and chat about Azure spend.
Finops
How to Optimize SQL Databases in Azure FinOps
How to optimise Azure SQL Database from a FinOps angle — DTU vs vCore sizing, elastic pools, serverless compute, and reservations that pay off.
Cost Optimization
Mastering FinOps on Azure Series
Recording of the Mastering FinOps on Azure series — practical strategies for optimizing Azure spend across engineering, finance, and product teams.
Virtual Machines
Azure Cost Saving Tip: Find the Cheapest Regions for your VMs
Azure VM prices vary 5–40% between regions. How to find the cheapest region for your workload without sacrificing latency or compliance.
Frugal Architecture
Architecting an Azure FinOps Solution at Scale – Part 1 of 4
How to design a data-warehousing solution that processes Azure billing data at scale and turns it into FinOps reports. Part 1 of 4.
Finops Tools
CloudMonitor vs CloudHealth: Which Fits Your Business?
CloudMonitor vs CloudHealth, side by side: reporting, cost anomalies, alerts, and how each tool handles enterprise FinOps reality.
Finops
Why FinOps matters: cost as a feature, not a finance problem
FinOps moves cloud cost from a finance-team problem into an engineering metric — what changes when every team treats spend as part of their KPI.
Finops Framework
Navigating the 3 FinOps Phases
Inform, Optimize, Operate — the three FinOps phases that turn cloud cost chaos into a repeatable, business-aligned operating discipline.
Finops Framework
The 6 FinOps Principles, Explained for Practitioners
The FinOps Foundation's six principles, explained: collaboration, ownership, business value, accessible data, central team, and variable cost models.