Creating an Effective AWS Cost Allocation Strategy

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Foundations of FinOps and Cost Allocation

Moving to the cloud has become a big part of business strategy for many organizations. As the pace of cloud adoption increases, keeping track of cloud costs has become a top concern for leaders and financial teams. This is where FinOps, or cloud financial management, comes into play. At the heart of FinOps is the… Read More »

Building a FinOps Culture: Training and Education

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Foundations of FinOps and Cost Allocation

With organisations increasing their use of cloud platforms, managing cloud spend has become an increasingly pressing concern. Enter FinOps: Financial Operations. While many teams get excited about the technical sides of FinOps-tracking expenses and usage, it is far too often the cultural side that falls through the cracks. Ensuring a true FinOps culture means the… Read More »

Monitor Page load times using AWS Lambda

In a previous post I experimented with serverless monitoring of my websites.  I was wondering if I could extend the monitoring functions to gather rudimentary data on the time it takes to load the site. I decided to modify the Lambda function I used earlier to calculate the time it took for the function to… Read More »

Starting on your DevOps initiatives

The DevOps methodology has been around for a few years now and has recently become the “in thing’ for organisations to implement.  Just as there was a major push to “cloudify” everything, organisations are now looking to introduce DevOps in all things IT, and why should not they, considering the benefits that can be realised.… Read More »