Cloud FinOps
- Bib ID:
- 10021461
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Storment, J. R
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- Edition:
- 2nd edition.
- Description:
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- Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2023
- 1 online resource ( 457 p.) :
- ISBN:
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- 9781492098324 (electronic book)
- 1492098329 (electronic book)
- Full contents:
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- The World Turned Upside Down
- Who Should Read This Book
- About This Book
- What You Need to Know Before Reading On
- FinOps Is Evolving
- Conventions Used in This Book
- O'Reilly Online Learning
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Introducing FinOps
- Chapter 1. What Is FinOps?
- Defining the Term "FinOps"
- The FinOps Hero's Journey
- Where Did FinOps Come From?
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Real-Time Feedback (aka the "Prius Effect")
- Core Principles of FinOps
- When Should You Start FinOps?
- Starting with the End in Mind: Data-Driven Decision Making
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Why FinOps?
- Use Cloud for the Right Reasons
- Cloud Spend Keeps Accelerating
- The Impact of Not Adopting FinOps
- Informed Ignoring: Why Start Now?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Cultural Shift and the FinOps Team
- Deming on Business Transformation
- Who Does FinOps?
- Why a Centralized Team?
- The FinOps Team Doesn't Do FinOps
- The Role of Each Team in FinOps
- Executives and Leadership
- Engineering and Developers
- Finance
- Procurement and Sourcing
- Product or Business Teams
- FinOps Practitioners
- A New Way of Working Together
- Where Does Your FinOps Team Report?
- Understanding Motivations
- Engineers
- Finance People
- Executives and Leadership
- Procurement and Sourcing People
- FinOps Throughout Your Organization
- Hiring for FinOps
- FinOps Culture in Action
- Difficulty Motivating People Is Not New
- Contributors to Action
- Detractors from Action
- Tipping the Scales in Your Favor
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. The Language of FinOps
- Defining a Common Lexicon
- Defining the Basic Terms
- Defining Finance Terms for Cloud Professionals
- Abstraction Assists Understanding
- Cloud Language Versus Business Language
- Creating a Universal Translator Between Your DevOps and Finance Teams
- The Need to Educate All the Disciplines
- Benchmarking and Gamification
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Anatomy of the Cloud Bill
- Types of Cloud Bill
- Cloud Billing Complexity
- Basic Format of Billing Data
- Time, Why Do You Punish Me?
- Sum of the Tiny Parts
- A Brief History of Cloud Billing Data
- The Importance of Hourly Data
- A Month Is Not a Month
- A Dollar Is Not a Dollar
- Two Levers to Affect Your Bill
- Who Should Avoid Costs and Who Should Reduce Rates?
- Centralizing Rate Reduction
- Why You Should Decentralize Usage Reduction
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Adopting FinOps
- A Confession
- Different Executive Pitches for Different Levels
- Starting Pitch
- Advancing Pitch
- Sample Headcount Plan for Advancing a FinOps Team
- Pitching the Executive Sponsor
- Playing to Your Audience
- Key Personas That the Driver Must Influence
- CEO Persona
- CTO/CIO Persona
- CFO Persona
- Engineering Lead Persona
- Roadmap for Getting Adoption of FinOps
- Notes:
- Stage 1: Planning for FinOps in an Organization
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