AWS Cost Optimization with Fargate Spot and Automation
Cut AWS costs by 35% by migrating to Fargate Spot and automating non-production environments, boost efficiency and flexibility for developers.| IAMOPS
Effective Savings Rate (ESR), a metric introduced by the FinOps Foundation, measures the efficiency of cost savings garnered from discounted cloud commitments like Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans (SPs) and other forms of Committed Use Discounts (CUDs). This metric provides valuable insights into FinOps effectiveness. This blog helps FinOps professionals understand the ESR metric, its underlying factors, and how to overcome its inherent limitations with smarter commitment management....| Flexera Blog
In the world of FinOps, organizations often begin their journey with cloud cost optimization solutions to identify waste, right-size resources and improve visibility. But as cloud environments grow more complex and dynamic, organizations must also optimize their commitments. Here’s a look at how Flexera One Cloud Commitment Management (formerly Spot Eco) supports each level of FinOps maturity, as defined by the FinOps Maturity Model. Cloud commitment management matters, even at the Crawl le...| Flexera Blog
This is the first post in a three-part series on how DevOps and platform engineering teams can leverage DevOps skills and mindsets to cultivate a culture of FinOps awareness that delivers business value within cloud environments. “Move fast and break things” is one of the most quoted truisms in modern software engineering. DevOps has changed the way engineers work—we ship faster, iterate constantly and recover quickly. In the cloud, speed without controls may not disrupt production, but...| Flexera Blog
Six months ago, Flexera and Spot joined forces to bring FinOps users the ultimate unified platform—converging cloud cost visibility and zero-touch efficiency. Today, we’re excited to announce a significant milestone in that journey: Spot Eco has officially made its way to the Flexera One platform. It’s now officially known as Flexera One Cloud Commitment Management. This transition isn’t just about rebranding or migration. It is accompanied by major upgrades that are the result of p...| Flexera Blog
Cloud commitments—including Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans (SPs), and Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)—offer substantial savings compared to on-demand pricing. But unlocking their full value requires more than just purchasing them. It demands strategic management, real-time optimization and deep visibility across your cloud estate. If your organization is already using cloud cost tools, you’ve taken a critical first step. But to truly maximize your cloud ROI, it’s time to turn ...| Flexera Blog
Cut AWS costs by 35% by migrating to Fargate Spot and automating non-production environments, boost efficiency and flexibility for developers.| IAMOPS
こんにちは。SREチームの吉澤です。 SREはインフラの専門性を持つため、SREチームのミッションに「インフラコスト削減」も含まれている会社は多いと思います。アンドパッドでも、主にSREチームがインフラコスト削減に取り組んできました。しかし、この取り組みだけでは削減できないコストが見えてきました。 そこでアンドパッドでは、2024年6月から、SREとソフトウ...| ANDPAD Tech Blog
Cut GCP costs by up to 48% with spot instances, automated shutdowns, rightsized databases, and storage lifecycle policies.| IAMOPS
In the previous post we outlined and defined the three categories of cost management:| Blog - Container Solutions
The FinOps Framework by the FinOps Foundation is an operational framework and cultural practice which helps organizations maximize the business value of their cloud and technology investments.| Flexera Blog
The 4th annual FinOps X, the FinOps Foundation’s annual practitioner conference, took place in San Diego in June 2025 and proudly announced more attendees and sponsors than ever before.| Flexera Blog
Last week, the FinOps Foundation and the ITAM Forum—global trade associations for their respective functions—announced a new partnership. Together, they will help break down silos that have been…| Flexera Blog
FinOps is the fastest growing discipline for cloud cost management, and the challenges it seeks to solve extend far beyond the cloud.| Flexera Blog
Cloud cost optimization is a primary goal of most FinOps practices. Automation can prevent and eliminate inefficient use of cloud resources.| Flexera Blog
To sustain AI innovation while keeping budgets under control, companies need a FinOps strategy tailored to AI.| Flexera Blog
We’ve compiled actionable tips to help you prepare for the exam and succeed on your journey to becoming a FinOps certified practitioner.| Flexera Blog
Proactively monitoring, managing and optimizing costs with cloud cost optimization software allows you to better plan and forecast for growth in the cloud.| Flexera Blog
We explore use cases where FinOps and ITAM intersect, providing a comprehensive overview of how they can work together.| Flexera Blog
There is a widespread perception that the cloud is expensive. But is the cloud really at fault? Or is it plain inefficiency? Working with several large enterprises, I’ve seen everything from poor governance to bad design choices leading to huge cloud spending. I’ve also seen well-defined cloud strategies and ongoing optimization practices helping enterprises keep their […] The post Cloud Costs: Is It the Cloud or the Practices We Follow? appeared first on QBurst Blog.| QBurst Blog
This article dives into FinOps Scopes. Its mission is to extend the FinOps framework’s operating model to other areas of technology spend.| Flexera Blog
Effective cloud migration is about steady progress, proper monitoring, and adjusting to new insights.| The New Stack
We’re honored to be recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Financial Management Tools.| Flexera Blog
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Cost monitoring for Kubernetes can be tricky. Find out how we automated it for EKS clusters with spot instances in AWS using Kubecost, Amazon Athena, and our Terraform modules. Benefit from the source code we share.| blog.palark.com
Three years ago, Snow Software launched Snow Atlas, to help their customers manage their hybrid-IT technology landscape. Find out more in this blog post.| Flexera Blog
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Introduction One of the major trends in software development in the last decade has been “shifting left” responsibilities that have traditionally been| Lightrun
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Cloud Native consultants tackle cloud cost management. They outline three levels: Quick Wins, Cost Optimization, and Finops for effective savings.| blog.container-solutions.com
