Cloud Waste / FinOps Discussion Group May 3rd 2021 11am. - 12 noon

Introduction

Apr 22rd Stormforge gave a webinar "Solving Application Cloud Waste: A Panel Discussion"

Panelist were:

• Adrian Cockcroft - AWS VP Sustainability - @adrianco
• Matt Provo - Stormforge - @matthewprovo
• Cheryl Hung - CNCF - @oicheryl
• Noah Abrahams - Stormforge/CNCF - @noah_abrahams

Big Topics were:

• Cost control and attribution
• Scheduling work:
  • Dev/QA gets turned off
  • batch jobs run at "off peak times"
• ESG analysis
• Introducing FinOps

and

• FinOps v Devops

Agenda topic areas

What is FinOps? What are the challenges in the field? How do we do?

References and Notes:

• FinOps Foundation
• The Beginner’s Guide to Moderating a Panel Discussion