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When I wrote Azure Savings Plans, Finally Explained with Math That Actually Makes Sense , I was very focused on solving one specific problem. People were looking at Savings Plans and feeling like they were missing something obvious. They saw the hourly commitment. Then they saw their bill. They did not see a discount. And that disconnect was driving a lot of unnecessary anxiety. Once that post went live, I started finalizing this post as I knew there would be immediate follow

Math IS hard and mathing isn't my strong suit. I am writing this blog because I STILL get tripped up at times with Savings Plans. You guessed it...this becomes a cheat sheet for ME in the future, too! Azure Savings Plans are one of those topics that routinely make smart people feel like they missed a prerequisite class. I see it in customer meetings, I see it in internal chats, and I definitely see it in the way people react to Azure Advisor recommendations. The issue is not

When people hear the word FinOps, their minds almost always jump to one thing: savings. “How much money can we cut from the cloud bill?”...

Over the past few slightly chaotic months at work, a customer asked a really interesting question that I realized deserves a better,...

This post required a revision based upon how I originally positioned AWS Reserved Instances. I'm still learning AWS, so I had some During...