FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimization
summary
A cloud cost program that cuts spend by 50% cost reduction combines three practical levers: enforce tagging with Terraform modules plus AWS Config validation, get billing visibility with Cost Explorer/third‑party tools and Datadog monitors, and act on top spend. Concrete wins: move to Graviton2: 15% cheaper 20% faster RDS/managed services, migrate gp3 disks (≈20% cheaper), enable LZ4 compression between Elasticsearch nodes to drop inter‑AZ network >50% (≈15% bill drop), and run k8s on spot instances: 70–90% savings. Use savings plans and tag editor to remove zombies.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:41Why save money
- 2:00FinOps
- 6:33Before you start
- 8:33AWS Services
- 9:17AWS EC2
- 14:01Networking
- 19:15SQL
- 25:01Kubernetes
- 27:21Other tips
- 30:51Summary
- 31:51Questions
- 33:26Infrastructure aware code
- 35:31Biggest changes
- 38:26Rapid Detection
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