ChatGPT (and related) From a FinOps Perspective

If you’re in the business of deploying technology to, well, business, unless you’ve been sheltering in a cave, you’re aware that Microsoft has deepened its partnership with OpenAI by making the latter’s services available via Azure. Since my focus is on FinOps and the impact of an organization’s technology choices on cloud runtime costs, one …

Stumbling Towards FinOps

Change takes time.  The transition from one paradigm to another is never as quick as we’d like, or as it seems in memory. Today, it’s difficult to recall the resistance public cloud, as a method for providing key services such as computation and database, faced in an earlier stage. With this in-mind, let’s consider the …

Tagging Platform Resources: Azure Synapse as Example

This post, which is a follow-up to an earlier article, "Azure Synapse Analytics: Do Your Homework!", is about understanding how tagging is applied to platform services, using Azure Synapse Analytics as an example. Let's start this by reviewing the FinOps Lifecycle, as visually expressed in this FinOps Foundation graphic: FinOps Lifecycle from the FinOps Foundation …