A blog about Azure Cost Management and Related Stuff
FinOps, or, financial operations, is still a new practice area. Even so, we are starting to see the same type of drift in definition that has diluted the meaning of DevOps (which once meant, quite simply, the tight integration of development and operations to create a more agile - in the original sense of that …
In a previous post, I discussed Azure’s AI and ML offerings: their types and purpose and presented a simplified decision workflow. In this post, I’ll apply these concepts to a typical example, showing the importance of using an informed methodology – resistant to hype – to help you make good choices for your organization. Understanding Azure Cognitive Services …
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics combines data warehousing with analytics, machine learning and visualization. It brings together services which, in the past, were separate, under one umbrella. For example, Azure SQL pools (warehousing) and Apache Spark pools (analytics and machine learning) are bundled and made available as part of a unified service (or perhaps we could …
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I haven't seen your Azure environment (yet!) but I'm sure there's a good chance databases are the second biggest source of costs - right after virtual machines (which I suggest you minimize as much as possible). Database migration is a critical part of cloud modernization projects and, alongside VMs, databases are often created without much …
Let's face it, the Azure cost management skillset is a bit immature (I think this is also true for AWS but there's Duckbill and Corey Quinn providing solid leadership in that space). Why? My experience leads me to define four reasons: One.) Cloud is viewed as an IT task and not a cross-functional business driver …
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Azure FinOps 