FinOps Excellence Summit 2025
2025-07-16
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as the organisers put it
Watch FinOps Excellence Summit videos. Learn cloud cost optimization, automation techniques, and how to prove cloud value to stakeholders.
who it's for
finops practitioners, cloud engineers, platform engineers, devops engineers, engineering managers, site reliability engineers, cloud finance analysts
topics
auto stopping dev test instances; Cloud Custodian policies; AI recommendations for Kubernetes; visibility with perspectives and unit cost; CI/CD budget guardrails; rightsizing compute and VMs; scheduled non production shutdowns; archived snapshot storage savings; savings plans and reservations; real time anomaly detection; cost per transaction dashboards; tag to CMDB mapping
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Closing Keynote: Are You Ready to Own the Board? | Eric Lam, Jeff Merlin, Jyoti Bansal | 33m |
A practial account of FinOps maturity: a launched product lost ~90% of margin to cloud costs, engineers must own cost tradeoffs, and predictable wins come from… | ||
| Pass Go and Collect Savings: Winning with Automation | Noe Zuniga, Sherri Wooldridge, Paul Kennedy, Ryan Strobel, Eric L. Santelices, Kelsey Rosen | 26m |
Start with visibility across cloud, on‑prem and SaaS and build automation that finds unused storage, rightsizes compute and schedules non‑prod shutdowns… | ||
| The Rent Is Too High! Cutting Costs on Cloud Real Estate | Tracy Woo, J.R. Storment, Ravi Yadalam, Jyoti Bansal | 33m |
Cloud spend balloons because teams leave an endless spigot running and automate without guardrails, so the actionable advice is to start with one‑year… | ||
| AI Knows the Board Better Than You Do | Latha Srinivasan, Jet Semrick, Eric Lam, Swapna Samuel, Prasshant Sharrma, Zach Johnson, Mike Mouchantat, Patrick Brogan | 43m |
Claims AI cuts wasted cloud spend by 30–50% and improves forecasting up to 25%, with teams using turbonomics, Google Cloud, SageMaker and Azure AI Foundry for… | ||
| Banker’s Secrets to Proving Cloud Value | Araseli Cerda, Linde-Marie Ferreira, Brittany Hammell, Mridhula Venkat, Mark Cullen, Will Hargreaves, Adam Westgarth | 36m |
Cloud value workbooks a few concrete practices: tie cloud tags to the CMDB with 3-letter CI codes so every resource maps to an app, use 650+ applications and… | ||
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