12 Tips to Reduce Cloud Cost FinOps
FinOpsI want to give quick advice on reducing cloud bills. I wrote a Introduction to FinOps, but I want something more like a checklist.
- Turn off compute engine with schedule instances
- Rightsize, meaning reduce the size of compute engine instances, SQL and other
- Preemptible, spot give a really good discount up to 70% on instances
- Get people involved, they now what can be remove
- Tag and label everywhere
- Know how to read details in a cloud bills
- Commitments 1 or 3 years to resources
- Choose the right bucket class (Nealine, Coldline, Archive...)
- Look for waste
- Logs can help you
- Budgets, Alerts, Forecast
- Network are expensive, Gzip everything can save bandwidth
- Pricing calculator is your best friend
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