FinOps Foundation’s “FinOps Certified Professional” Certification
We write to share our experience and reflections upon being the first students, and graduates (Jiri & Ermanno) of the FinOps Foundation’s FinOps Certified Professional certification program....
View ArticleOn AWS Certifications
I have always been a fan of professional certification in the areas of my interests for these reasons: Certifications calibrate your professional judgment – they provide a prioritized top-down...
View ArticleTop 3 Lessons from Running 300+ Cost-effective Solutions on AWS
Public cloud spend is expected to reach $400 billion in 2022 and out of that 30-40% is wasted. That is $120 billion to $160 billion – compare this figure with the expected size of the global frozen...
View ArticleReview of the book “Cloud FinOps, 2nd Edition” by J.R. Storment, Mike Fuller,...
This is a review of the early version of the book available as of October 2022 – the final book is expected to be published in March 2023. The book’s apparent aim is to persuade its readers that every...
View ArticleFinOps is dead, long live the Cloud Financial Management
The FinOps Foundation substantiates its existence by the fact that about a third of all cloud spend is wasted and focuses majority of its attention on cloud spend, rather than long-term profitability...
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