Tag: FOCUS Specification
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FinOps Tooling, Maturity and the Roadmap That Follows (Cloud FinOps Series, Part 20)
Three organisations bought the same cost platform and got three different outcomes. Here is how to choose FinOps tooling, read the maturity model honestly, and build a twelve month roadmap that ends in decisions rather than dashboards.
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Cloud Unit Economics: Cost per Customer, Transaction and Feature (Cloud FinOps Series, Part 10)
Total cloud spend tells a leadership team almost nothing. Here is how to build a unit metric that does, which costs belong in the numerator, and the denominator mistake that quietly makes a good engineering result look like nothing happened.
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Cloud Cost Reporting That Drives Action (Cloud FinOps Series, Part 7)
Most cloud cost reports are read once and then ignored. Here is what a report has to contain, who it has to reach, and the four numbers that tell you whether anyone is actually acting on it.
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How to Read a Cloud Bill on AWS, Azure and GCP (Cloud FinOps Series, Part 4)
The invoice is a summary you cannot act on. The billing export is the real dataset, and it uses four different numbers all called cost. Here is how to read both on AWS, Azure and GCP.
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About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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