Cloud Waste Management: A Win-Win for Sustainability and Efficiency 

Understanding the Cost and Sustainability Impact of Cloud Waste  Cloud computing has become an essential part of modern business, but it can also be a major source of waste. This waste can have a significant financial and environmental impact.  The cost of cloud waste can be staggering. For every $1 million invested in the cloud, $280,000 goes to waste (Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report). This means that organizations are losing a significant amount Weiterlesen…

Von Friederike Kneuper, vor

How to establish a vibrant FinOps community in your organization?

Capability “Establish FinOps Culture”   As you might know, FinOps is a cultural practice. It’s the way how teams manage their cloud costs, where everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage, supported by a central best-practices group. Cross-functional teams in Engineering, Finance, Product, etc. work together to enable faster product delivery while gaining more financial control and predictability. Therefore, it is very important for your organization that you work hard to set up your own FinOps Weiterlesen…

Von Friederike Kneuper, vor

CO2 Emission Dashboard Analysis of the top three Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) 

What is the Cloud Carbon footprint?  The Cloud carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated by a company’s cloud computing operations. This includes the energy used for running software, the energy and resources used to power and cool data centres, as well as the energy and resources used by cloud services such as servers, storage, and networking. The cloud carbon footprint of a company is typically measured in metric tons of Weiterlesen…

Von Vandana Konda, vor

Kubernetes cost optimization on AWS 

Running microservices on Kubernetes clusters is a modern way to provide your application to end users and customers. On cloud service providers like AWS it is possible to use EC2 auto-scaling that spins up new compute instances based on the current load of the cluster (dynamic scaling) or predefined quantity in a scheduled time plan.  Using EC2 auto scaling groups is one possibility to save costs on AWS. But this kind of scaling has some Weiterlesen…

Von Marten Wick, vor
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Building a K8S Operator to manipulate your Managed Cluster Nodes 

Introduction  For our WebAssembly Special Interest Group at Liquid Reply we wanted to build a proof of concept that allows us to run WebAssembly workloads on regular Kubernetes nodes which are managed by a Cloud Provider like AWS, Azure or GCP. As WebAssembly images require a modified OCI runtime, in our case CRUN, with support to run WebAssembly. CRUN needs to be compiled, or replaced on the node with a version that has WebAssembly readily Weiterlesen…

Von Max Schmidt, vor

Relationship between Rightsizing resources, Carbon Footprint & Cloud expenses/ Impact of Rightsizing Resources on Carbon Footprint and Cloud Expenses

Cloud Cost ∝ Cloud Usage ∝ Carbon footprint What does Rightsizing mean? The technique of matching cloud instance types and sizes to the workload performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost is known as Rightsizing. The key compute utilization metrics to consider while rightsizing are vCPU, Memory, Network and Disk use (Virtual IT Resources). Usage patterns play a key role in rightsizing, to properly estimate rightsizing, we need to analyze cloud usage patterns. Weiterlesen…

Von Vandana Konda, vor

Cloud GreenOps – Sustainable Business

Want to drive out carbon from your business?   The biggest problem the world is facing today is the one that everyone is aware of, global warming. The rising temperatures, unseasonal snow and rain, and the endangerment of vulnerable plant and animal species are all consequences of the increasing variability in global weather patterns. However, how does the cloud contribute?   Do you know that transferring 1GB of data over the internet generates 3kg of co2, the Weiterlesen…

Von Vandana Konda, vor

Awareness about Carbon Footprint

You have probably heard a lot lately about how important it is to reduce your carbon footprint and how to combat climate change. But what is that exactly?   Just like an actual footprint, it is a mark you leave upon the environment. No, not with your shoes but with every action that releases carbon, those are the harmful gases such as co2, which are pumped out by burning fossil fuels, like oil or gas. And the Weiterlesen…

Von Vandana Konda, vor

Enforce Compute Sustainability through Policies

Authored by Florian Stoeber and Vanessa Kantner Using the public cloud has a huge impact on the environment. The public cloud is just another company’s server, running in a data centre. These data centres are now – mid-2022  – responsible for 2% of the world’s total greenhouse gas (short: GHG) emissions[1]. This number is expected to rise over the next years, due to the almost exponential growth in demand of public cloud services. In this Weiterlesen…

Von Vanessa Kantner, vor

FinOps tools for developers

While cloud environments are growing, many things are getting more complex and harder to understand. One big topic is the governance and cloud-cost optimization of your environment. In this blog post, I will show you essential topics that every developer or IT department can use to pick the low-hanging fruit.

Von Florian Stoeber, vor

People meet tools: A FinOps journey to success

These days the FinOps tooling landscape offers an enormous variety. Features of the tools range from graphical dashboards, reports, rightsizing recommendations and anomaly detections based on adaptive machine learning algorithms for both containers or cloud services.   All these products and features have the potential to take your FinOps practice to the next level. This means choosing to buy or build a tool which has a long-term impact on the success of your FinOps practice. Weiterlesen…

Von Vanessa Kantner, vor

How to deal with unused cloud resources

The source of unused cloud resources Since some years now, I dedicate my professional career to a topic called FinOps (formerly known as Cloud Cost Management). FinOps is a combination of systems, best practices, and culture that increases an organization’s ability to understand cloud costs and make trade-offs. The most interesting part for me with FinOps is the interdisciplinary between many different departments at companies and I understand my role as an advisor and translator, Weiterlesen…

Von Alex Baier, vor

Finding your way into Cloud Native 

I presume you already have heard about Cloud Native before but if not certainly about Cloud Computing at some point. In a nutshell, Cloud Computing is the usage of a distributed computer network that consists of servers, network components and storage. Everybody uses services hosted on “the cloud” day by day (This website is also hosted in the cloud). Maybe you or your team have also configured a system using a Cloud Provider AWS, Azure, Weiterlesen…

Von Leonard Pahlke, vor

Consider Docker Alternatives

As you may have heard a few months ago, Docker announced a change to its pricing model that will only affect Docker Desktop for enterprises starting in February 2022. This article takes this as an opportunity to talk about Docker alternatives. One focus is Docker Desktop. Even if the pricing changes do not affect you, I am sure there is something in here for you.  First, we will refresh our memory about Docker and discuss Weiterlesen…

Von Leonard Pahlke, vor
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KCNA, Why and How to pass the exam!

The CNCF (cloud-native computing foundation) and The Linux Foundation, had introduced a new Kubernetes exam in November 2021. The exam is called Kubernetes and Cloud-native Associate (KCNA).   Looking through the exam format and exam domain, made me curious to sit for the certification, for reason number one, which was the exam format.   The Exam Format The exam is a multiple-choice test that consists of 60 questions. You have 90 minutes to complete the exam and must get at least 75% or above to succeed in it. I had the Weiterlesen…

Von Max Körbächer, vor

WHAT THE TAG?

Developing comprehensive tagging strategies for your cloud resources to achieve transparency in cost allocation.  Tagging as a tool to transform metadata into usable data is by no means a new concept. It may sound simple, but one should carefully consider what information to gather before adding metadata to your cloud resources. The journey to effective cost management may not be as straightforward as one thinks. The reason is that the people deploying, using and managing Weiterlesen…

Von Manuela Latz, vor
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Dapr: Distributed Application Runtime

Dapr – a toolbox for distributed systems The growing complexity of distributed, containerized systems presents many developers with new challenges. This creates new interfaces within an application, which also require new approaches for the integration. Further problems arise not only technically but also organizationally for projects and their operation. Essentially, this raises some questions. Who must provide the necessary systems for the integration layer within a distributed application? Who manages this layer? Who is responsible Weiterlesen…

Von Max Körbächer, vor

Exploring the Future of FinOps with ChatGPT: An Exclusive Interview

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT these days. One more reason to take a closer look at the topic. Artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT can play a major role in the future. In today’s expert interview, we clarify how ChatGPT can help in the area of FinOps. Question: First of all, thank you for taking the time today. Can you please introduce yourself briefly? Answer: Sure! I am ChatGPT, an advanced language generation model developed by Weiterlesen…

Von Tom Uhlig, vor
Person talking to a Robot