FinOps dans Azure!

Maxime Coquerel - MVP Azure

# Speaker
Maxime Coquerel

Director Cloud Security Architect

Email : max.coquerel@live.fr

Blog : zigmax.net (since 2012)

Github : https://github.com/zigmax

Twitter : @zig_max

Open Source Contributor (Kubernetes / VSCode)

Disclaimer

“Any views or opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter
and not necessarily represent the view and opinions of my employer, its
ownership, management or its employees .“
Thank you!
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Session Agenda / Goal
● What is FinOps?

● Why FinOps?

● Anatomy of the Cloud Bill

● Tags, Labels and subscriptions

● Management Group

● Optimization

● Tooling for Cost Management

● Conclusion
What is FinOps?

“FinOps is shorthand for Cloud Financial Management. It is

the practice of bringing financial accountability to the

variable spend model of cloud, enabling distributed teams to

make business trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality.”

6 Principles
Team Organization
Why FinOps?
Anatomy of the Azure Cloud Bill
Management Group
Tags, Labels, and subscriptions
Azure Policy to Enforce/Appends tags
Optimization / Cleanup Oversized services

Abandoned disks Reserved instances

Empty services Specialized storage

Geolocalized storage Stopped virtual machines

Idle databases Unconnected virtual network

gateways
Idle services
Unconnected application gateways
Idle Azure Cache for Redis
Unused IP addresses
Old snapshots
Pick the right Azure VM series and the right Azure
VM size
Others quick wins
● Move services to PaaS and SaaS

● Right-size the virtual machine disks

● Select the right Azure region

● Azure Spot Virtual Machines for batch processing jobs with significant cost
savings
● Commit and use Azure Reserved VM instances
Azure Advisor | Cost Management
Azure
Budgets
Cost alerts
Cloud Health by VMware
Overcast by Sharegate
FinOps Foundation | Certification

● FinOps Foundation
● https://www.finops.org/
Conclusion
● Define your internal Governance Standard with all stakeholders
(Security, Ops, Business …)

● Start small and expend :) !

● Try to remove your IaaS VM

● Define limits and create budgets per team

● Day-to-Day work (Small changes can help you to save lot of

money!)
Books
Technical Resources

FinOps Foundation - https://www.finops.org/

FinOps Certification - https://www.finops.org/certification/

Thomas Maurer - How to reduce the costs of your azure IaaS VMs
https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-reduce-the-costs-of-your-azure-iaas-
vms/

Maxime Blog - http://zigmax.net

Microsoft Ignite 2020 - https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/

Questions / Talks