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Rightsizing - show, don't tell

Rightsizing - show, don't tell

Hello reader. My employer has been in rightsizing mode lately, and I've participating more in that exercise than ever before. As you probably know I'm a data person, and I believe very strongly that the practice of FinOps is a data-heavy practice. I'm continually

Cost allocation 101: building the foundations

Cost allocation 101: building the foundations

💡Number 2 in a series on Cost Allocation. The first post on data and tooling can be found here. In this post we'll start to get into the nitty gritty, starting with unifying our cloud bills according to the FOCUS spec. There will be a lot of diagrams

EBS - monthly pricing means monthly pricing

I just made a rather surprising discovery that I wanted to quickly share/jot down regarding EBS. My usecase is that I'm trying to gather up all the provisioned storage that we have in $segment so I can compare it to some other metrics reporting I have on

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