Tag: #finops

• Azure Databricks Cost: the definitive guide

  

  There is no topic on which I have spent so much time on as Azure Databricks. I did not understand the concept, the difference between DBU and DBCU and how Reservations work. No-one seems to understand, it was very hard to find help. Once I thought I cracked it I found new complicating factors like…

  Harry van Rijn

  1 Mar 2024

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  #azure, #costcontrol, #costtransparency, #costsavings, #itcost, #virtualmachines, #vm, #azurereservations, #cloudcomputing, #finops, #databricks, #costoptmisation, #costoptimization

• State of Finops 2024: Reducing waste

  

  I was happy to see that waste reduction made it to the top priority for organisations having migrated to the Cloud. I was not happy to see Leadership adoption lagging behind since these two are closely related: if the leadership prioritises waste reduction, they need to lead by example and demonstrate this on a daily…

  Harry van Rijn

  26 Feb 2024

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  #azure, #costcontrol, #costsavings, #itcost, #virtualmachines, #vm, #azurereservations, #azurestorageaccount, #finops, #sqlserver, cloud, ai

• The VM Reservation Game: RI and ASP in 2024

  

  It’s 2024, new Azure reservations for VM (RI) can no longer be exchanged. Thanks to the grace period the ‘old’ RIs can still be exchanged until 30-6-2024. Reservations can still be returned up to $50.000 in a 12-month rolling window for a billing profile or single enrollment for all services! Within these limitations a plan…

  Harry van Rijn

  19 Jan 2024

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  #azure, #azurereservations, #azuresavingsplan, #azurestorageaccount, #cloudcomputing, #costcontrol, #costsavings, #costtransparency, #finops, #itcost, cloud, microsoft

• Azure Hybrid Use Benefit (AHUB)

  

  I knew AHUB from the AZ900-course, I knew it was used but was unaware of the process. I wasn’t there last time Windows Server Standard 2-licenses packs with Software Assurance had been purchased and applied. I did know SQL Server licenses had not been purchased because of the upfront cost. No-one had given it a…

  Harry van Rijn

  2 Jun 2023

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  #ahub, #azure, #cloudcomputing, #costcontrol, #costmanagement, #costsavings, #costtransparency, #finops, #hybridbenefit, #itcost, #licenses, #licensing, #sqlserver, #virtualmachines

• 2023: a New Year, let’s optimise !

  In 2023 I am making a restart. Last year I tidied up, standardised, improved tagging, enhanced reporting etc. The last action in 2022 was to prepare for the new set-up of the VM Reserved Instances (RI) and introduction of a Savings Plan (SP). Preparation for the Savings Plan took quite a while before I understood…

  Harry van Rijn

  13 Jan 2023

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  #azure, #azurereservations, #cloudcomputing, #costcontrol, #costsavings, #costtransparency, #finops, #savingsplan, #savingsplan #finops #azuresavingsplan, #virtualmachines, #vm

• Cloud Cost Analyst for 7 months already!

  

  Only 7 months in my new job, but it seems like forever. You may be curious whether I achieved anything. Well, I’d like to think I did! I will also share my learnings with you, since I did stumble a few times on and over new insights and areas I have less experience with. I…

  Harry van Rijn

  12 Sep 2022

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  #azure, #azurereservations, #azurestorageaccount, #cloudcomputing, #costcontrol, #costsavings, #costtransparency, #finops, #itcost, #virtualmachines, #vm