Using AWS savings instruments in a FinOps journey
summary
Roku runs ~40,000 VMs and 80 PB mostly on AWS with one FinOps person and pilots Spot by NetApp ECO and Spot Ocean. A two-month proof of concept starting October 2020 turns into a contract in December and adds non‑EC2 RIs (RDS, ElastiCache/OpenSearch, Redshift, DynamoDB, SageMaker) in May. Automated portfolio management rebalances several times a day and yields 10% net savings across the AWS bill in addition to 14% from savings plans.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:08Challenges
- 3:56Operationalizing FinOps
- 4:59What do we need to do
- 6:13FinOps Maturity
- 7:30FinOps in Amazon
- 10:21Excel and manual labor
- 14:04Dieter Mason
- 15:39Amazon Web Services
- 16:12AWS Coverage Graph
- 24:09AWS Net Savings
- 26:58Wrap up
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