The Reasoning Show Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps
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Nov 29, 2023 Gary Harmson, Principal Customer Engineer at Google, and Ieva Jonaityte, Technical Account Mgr at DoIT, discuss the challenges of communication between finance and engineering teams in optimizing cloud costs. They emphasize the importance of education, establishing a cloud center of excellence, and good tagging practices. They also talk about understanding cloud billing, the DIKW hierarchy, and the need for cost visibility and staying informed about new features.
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Train Finance On Cloud Fundamentals
- Do train finance teams on cloud fundamentals to create a shared vocabulary and reduce confusion over line items.
- Yev Jonaityte recommends cloud certification, shadowing engineers, and communities of interest to build psychological safety and mutual understanding.
Apply DIKW To Cloud Billing Data
- Use the DIKW pyramid to turn thousands of raw billing SKUs into actionable decisions by moving from data to information, knowledge, then wisdom.
- Gary Harmsen explains tagging/resource hierarchy for information, trend analysis for knowledge, and cause-effect reasoning for wisdom.
Monitor Weekly And Automate Alerts
- Do monitor cloud spend more frequently than monthly and set alerts to catch accidental resource sprawl quickly.
- Ieva says weekly reports plus automated alerts (e.g., instances spun up on Friday) allow rapid remediation and saved dollars.