Efficient Cloud FinOps: A practical guide to cloud financial management and optimization with AWS, Azure, and GCP

Explore cloud economics and cost optimization for Azure, AWS, and GCP with this practical guide covering methods, strategies, best practices, and real-world examples, bridging theory and application

Key Features:

• Learn cost optimization best practices on different cloud services using FinOps principles and examples
• Gain hands-on expertise in improving cost estimations and devising cost reduction plans for Azure, AWS, and GCP
• Analyze case studies that illustrate the application of FinOps in diverse real-world scenarios
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description:

In response to the escalating challenges of cloud adoption, where balancing costs and maximizing cloud values is paramount, FinOps practices have emerged as the cornerstone of fi nancial optimization. This book serves as your comprehensive guide to understanding how FinOps is implemented in organizations worldwide through team collaboration and proper cloud governance.

Presenting FinOps from a practical point of view, covering the three phases-inform, optimize, and operate-this book demonstrates an end-to-end methodology for optimizing costs and performing financial management in the cloud. You'll learn how to design KPIs and dashboards for judicious cost allocation, covering key features of cloud services such as reserved instances, rightsizing, scaling, and automation for cost optimization. This book further simplifi es architectural concepts and best practices, enabling you to design superior and more optimized solutions. Finally, you'll discover potential synergies and future challenges, from the integration of artifi cial intelligence to cloud sustainability considerations, to prepare for the future of cloud FinOps.

By the end of this book, you'll have built the expertise to seamlessly implement FinOps practices across major public clouds, armed with insights and ideas to propel your organization toward business growth.

What You Will Learn:

• Examine challenges in cloud adoption and cost optimization
• Gain insight into the integration of FinOps within organizations
• Explore the synergies between FinOps and DevOps, IaC, and change management
• Leverage tools such as Azure Advisor, AWS CUDOS, and GCP cost reports
• Estimate and optimize costs using cloud services key features and best practices
• Implement cost dashboards and reports to improve visibility and control
• Understand FinOps roles and processes crucial for organizational success
• Apply FinOps through real-life examples and multicloud architectures

Who this book is for:

This book is for cloud engineers, cloud and solutions architects, as well as DevOps and SysOps engineers interested in learning more about FinOps and cloud financial management for efficiently architecting, designing, and operating software solutions and infrastructure using the public clouds. Additionally, team leads, project managers, and financial teams aiming to optimize cloud resources will also find this book useful. Prior knowledge of cloud computing and major public clouds is assumed.

探索 Azure、AWS 和 GCP 的雲經濟學和成本優化，本實用指南涵蓋方法、策略、最佳實踐和實際案例，將理論與應用相結合。

主要特點：
- 使用 FinOps 原則和示例學習不同雲服務的成本優化最佳實踐
- 獲得改進成本估算和制定 Azure、AWS 和 GCP 的成本降低計劃的實踐經驗
- 分析案例研究，展示 FinOps 在不同實際場景中的應用
- 購買印刷版或 Kindle 版本的書籍將包含免費的 PDF 電子書

書籍描述：
為應對雲採用所面臨的不斷升級的挑戰，平衡成本和最大化雲價值至關重要，FinOps 實踐已成為財務優化的基石。本書是您全面了解如何通過團隊協作和適當的雲治理在全球組織中實施 FinOps 的指南。

本書從實際角度介紹 FinOps，涵蓋了三個階段：信息、優化和運營，演示了在雲中優化成本和執行財務管理的端到端方法。您將學習如何設計關鍵績效指標和儀表板，以審慎分配成本，涵蓋雲服務的關鍵特性，如預留實例、權益調整、擴展和自動化，以實現成本優化。本書進一步簡化了架構概念和最佳實踐，使您能夠設計更優越和更優化的解決方案。最後，您將了解潛在的協同效應和未來挑戰，從人工智能與雲可持續性考慮的整合，為雲 FinOps 的未來做好準備。

通過閱讀本書，您將建立起在主要公共雲上無縫實施 FinOps 實踐的專業知識，並獲得推動組織業務增長的見解和思路。

學到什麼：
- 檢視雲採用和成本優化中的挑戰
- 瞭解 FinOps 在組織中的整合情況
- 探索 FinOps 與 DevOps、IaC 和變更管理之間的協同效應
- 利用 Azure Advisor、AWS CUDOS 和 GCP 成本報告等工具
- 使用雲服務的關鍵特性和最佳實踐估算和優化成本
- 實施成本儀表板和報告以提高可見性和控制
- 瞭解對組織成功至關重要的 FinOps 角色和流程
- 通過實際案例和多雲架構應用 FinOps

本書適合對於使用公共雲進行軟體解決方案和基礎架構的雲工程師、雲和解決方案架構師，以及 DevOps 和 SysOps 工程師。此外，團隊負責人、專案經理和財務團隊旨在優化雲資源的人也會發現本書有用。預設假設讀者具備雲計算和主要公共雲的基礎知識。