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John Grubb

John Grubb

How to compute reservation coverage (and utilization) from your AWS bill

How to compute reservation coverage (and utilization) from your AWS bill

Wherein we learn how to calculate all flavors of usage - reserved, on demand, and savings plan covered - in the same chart. Then we learn how to compute SavingsPlan utilization and overcommit all from the AWS CUR.

FinOps is performance optimization

FinOps is performance optimization

Wherein we present a simple mental model for what FinOps really is.

GCP compute can be both reserved AND on demand

😴Bare minimum Mondays: wherein we scratch the surface of a topic to be explored further in a future post. I was sitting around a table of practitioners recently, discussing the "vibe" of the big 3 cloud vendors - AWS, Azure, and GCP. We all pretty much agreed that

BigQuery Editions pricing in practice, late July 2023

BigQuery Editions pricing in practice, late July 2023

Wherein we talk about BigQuery's new pricing models and how they've shaken out in our bills.

The most important columns in your AWS bill - the cost metrics.

The most important columns in your AWS bill - the cost metrics.

One of my earliest questions was “what do things actually cost?” On demand usage was easily available in the unblended_cost column, but if I take all DiscountedUsage line items (ones that are covered by a reservation) and SUM(unblended_cost), it gives me 0. What?? This is what I

A FinOps Journey

A FinOps Journey

I’d like to share my story, since I didn’t choose FinOps, it chose me. It probably chose you, too. At the beginning of 2022 the greater Engineering org at my employer underwent a reorg. Part of this reorg smushed our platform Ops team and our platform Eng teams

Some days you run, some days you crawl

Some days you run, some days you crawl

This is a blog about FinOps, specifically life in a small shop. We'll define “small” as being a cloud spend in the low 8 figures annually, say < $30MM. That amount of money is definitely large enough for a FinOps program to make an impact at a company,