Doing FinOps Right: Stories of (Anti)Patterns and Spendthrift Architectures
summary
Three concrete FinOps case studies compare cost and architecture choices: a steady-load intranet showing serverless vs. VM where cost crossover occurs at about 5–6 hours/day and calculations show large 24-hour savings with the cheaper option; a logging pipeline demonstrating CloudWatch is economical initially but OpenSearch becomes cheaper at high volumes (calculated for a 6-node cluster); and a comparison of multitenant vs. dedicated tenancy showing multitenancy wins on cost and maintenance, with implemented examples and real metrics.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00FinOps introduction
- 1:08Serverless cost-benefit
- 5:48Logging cost management
- 11:35SAS multitenancy pitfalls
- 15:34FinOps reflections
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