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May 9, 2025
#28. Govern Your Storage Cost — Part 2: Setting a Strategy

The second part in the series to set a comprehensive storage strategy.

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Oliver Assad
Level 200
May 4, 2025
#27. Govern Your Storage Cost — Part 1: Storage Fundamentals

Understanding storage services to set the right governance strategy

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Oliver Assad
Level 200
Apr 13, 2025
#26. Your Workload Optimizations Checklist — Part 3: Storage

The third in a series to optimize Cloud workloads. Let’s focus on your storage.

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Oliver Assad
Level 200
Mar 31, 2025
#25. Your Workload Optimizations Checklist — Part 2: Compute

Here is your comprehensive checklist to optimize Compute usage on Cloud

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Oliver Assad
Level 200
Mar 21, 2025
#24. Your Workload Optimizations Checklist — Part 1: Databases

Here is your comprehensive checklist to optimize Databases usage on Cloud

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Oliver Assad
Level 100
Mar 13, 2025
#23. The 80/20 Rule to Save Costs on Workload Optimizations

A simple approach to save a lot of $$$ on your Cloud Workloads

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Oliver Assad
Level 300
Feb 18, 2025
#21. Which One Saves More: “Buy two get one free, or buy three get two free”? - ESR is the Answer.

What are Effective Saving rates and why should you care about it?

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Oliver Assad
Level 300
Feb 10, 2025
#20. Can You Track Your SaaS Product's Cost Per Customer? — Your Simple Guide to Unit Economics

Why do you need Unit Economics, and how to calculate it? Here is your guide.

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Oliver Assad
Level 100
Jan 31, 2025
#19. How Simple “Free” Automation Can Save you Significant Cloud Cost?

How can you prevent cost and optimize them without efforts for free?

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Oliver Assad
Level 100
Jan 24, 2025
#18. How to sell your CIO the idea of FinOps?

You had 30 seconds in an elevator with your CIO. How can you convince him to invest in FinOps?

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Oliver Assad
Level 200
Jan 9, 2025
#17. Do you really need FinOps Tools?

Should you buy a FinOps tool, build your own or use existing native tools?

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Oliver Assad
Level 100
Dec 20, 2024
#16. This would be my First 90 days in Charge of FinOps in your Organization

If you were put in charge of FinOps in a large company, what would be your approach?

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Oliver Assad
Level 100
Dec 11, 2024
#15. My Case Against the FinOps Phases

The FinOps Framework is well established, but I believe there's a flaw in its sequence of actions.

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Oliver Assad
Level 100
Dec 4, 2024
#14. Don't optimize costs—prevent them altogether: Shift left.

We could prevent half of the pain of the FinOps cycle with this simple principle

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Oliver Assad
Level 300
Nov 27, 2024
#13. Implementing Governance through Policy: Part Two - Cloud IAM Policies

Implementing governance through cloud policy can be done at two levels. This article series discusses these options in detail.

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Oliver Assad
Level 300
Nov 25, 2024
#12. Implementing Governance through Policy: Part One - Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Implementing governance through cloud policy can be done at two levels. This article series discusses these options in detail.

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Oliver Assad
Level 100
Nov 17, 2024
#11. Explaining FinOps FOCUS to my Grandmother.

Let me try my best to explain FOCUS in essence without sounding too nerdy!

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Oliver Assad
Level 200
Nov 17, 2024
#10. Forecasting: Where to start?

By far, one of the most annoying tasks in FinOps, Forecasting. Where to start?

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Oliver Assad
Level 100
Nov 17, 2024
#09. FinOps Where to Start?

What would be your first FinOps task? Would you focus on cutting costs, training people, or something else? Let's explore what you should do.

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Oliver Assad
Level 200
Oct 20, 2024
#08. Fix the root cause, not the symptoms: Cloud Governs vs Cost Optimizations

Do you have continuous cycles of cost optimizations? Then you are fixing the problem symptoms, not the root cause.

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Oliver Assad
Level 100
Oct 13, 2024
#07. I hope you are doing FinOps the right Way?

Saving costs by optimizing cloud rates and usage. Is that really what FinOps about?

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Oliver Assad
Level 300
Sep 29, 2024
#05. Should you Always Share Your Commitment Base Discounts?

Does it really matter where commited base discounts are purchased? Let's explore this further.

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Oliver Assad
Level 300
Sep 22, 2024
#04: How does Commitments Utilisation and Coverage contribute to Cloud Savings?

What's your key success metric for Commitment-Based Discounts? Is it coverage, utilization, or both? Let's explore what each brings to the table.

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Oliver Assad
Level 300
Sep 8, 2024
#02. Here is everything you need to know about a Tagging Strategy

Before you start tagging your cloud resources you need a tagging strategy. Here are some guidelines and best practices for you.

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Oliver Assad
Level 300
Sep 15, 2024
#03. How Does RIs and Saving Plans Work?

Understanding how Savings Plans and Reserved Instances work will help you make an informed decision on which to choose and when to use them.

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Oliver Assad
Level 200
Oct 6, 2024
#06. Are your Cloud Commitments Reaching their Potential Savings?

Cloud providers offer high discounts of up to 72%, but firms average 12%. So what is key to maximizing cost savings through cloud rate commitments?

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Oliver Assad
Level 200
Sep 1, 2024
#01. Is tagging the way to go for cost allocation?

Tagging is essential to refine the granularity of cost allocation, but should used as primary method to allocate costs on the cloud?

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