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WNiCF - January 2026 - News

24 Feb 2026

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Send a textThis episode covers the latest updates in cloud computing, including AWS Spot Interruption metrics, new EC2 instances, Azure and GCP enhanc...

WNiCF - December 2025 - News

30 Jan 2026

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Send us a textIn this episode, Frank and Stephen share the latest in cloud computing. They focus on AWS innovations, like new EC2 instances, generativ...

WNiCF - Interview with Erik - it started with vendor lock-in

20 Dec 2025

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Send us a textand then went in all sorts of interesting rabbit holes. Link on the CUR data pipeline open source tool: https://ecos-labs.io/Merry Chri...

WNiCF - November 2025 - News

11 Dec 2025

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Send us a textIn this episode, SteveO and Frank discuss the latest updates in cloud computing, focusing on AWS and Azure innovations. They cover new f...

WNiCF - Interview with Nic Guerra - Cost accounting

18 Nov 2025

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Send us a textIn this interview with Nic Guerra, the unortodox accountant, Stephen an Frank learn about a new type of accounting...cost accounting. Fr...

WNiCF - October 2025 - News

12 Nov 2025

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Send us a textIn this episode of What's New in Cloud FinOps, hosts SteveO and Frank discuss the latest updates from the TBM conference, then movi...

WNiCF - September 2025 - News

24 Oct 2025

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Send us a textIn this episode of What's New in Cloud FinOps, Stephen Old and Frank discuss the latest updates in cloud computing, including AWS O...

WNiCF - Interview with Erik Norman - Debunking the Iron Triangle

19 Sep 2025

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Send us a textShort episode packed with so many ideas and thoughts. In this episode, Frank Contrepois and Stephen Old engage in a thought-provoking d...

WNiCF - August 2025 - News

09 Sep 2025

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Send us a textIn this episode of What's New in Cloud FinOps, hosts SteveO and Frank discuss the latest advancements in cloud FinOps, including Am...

WNiCF - July 2025 - News

19 Aug 2025

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Send us a textIn this episode, Frank and SteveO cover the latest cloud updates that matter for FinOps practitioners:Compute & AI: AWS launches the...

WNiCF - June 2025 - News

22 Jul 2025

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Send us a textJoin us, Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois as we valiantly record the June 2025 news episode of “What’s New in Cloud FinOps"; th...

WNiCF - Interview with Rich Gibbons about SaaS, FinOps and ITAM

20 Jun 2025

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Send us a textIn this conversation, Frank Contrepois, Stephen Old, and Rich Gibbons explore the complexities of Software as a Service (SaaS) along wit...

WNiCF - May 2025 - News

13 Jun 2025

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Send us a textIn this episode of What's New in Cloud FinOps, Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois talk about the latest in cloud computing in May 202...

WNiCF - April 2025 - News

20 May 2025

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Send us a textApril 2025 news. A lot of news for you, dear listener, from Google, AWS and AzureTakeaway by the aiThe FinOps News podcast targets hardc...

WNiCF - Interview with Udam - do FinOps like a Fortune 50

19 May 2025

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Send us a textIn this episode, Frank and Stephen talk with Udam about the changing world of FinOps. They focus on the challenges organizations face in...

WNiCF - March 2025 - News

28 Apr 2025

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Send us a textIn this episode of What's New in Cloud Phenops, Stephen Old and Frank discuss the latest updates in cloud computing, focusing on Az...

WNiCF - Interview with Amit - The Importance of Automation in Cloud Cost Management

17 Mar 2025

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Send us a textIn this conversation, Amit Saar shares his journey from software engineering at Microsoft to founding OpenOps. He focuses on the challen...

WNiCF - February 2025 - News

14 Mar 2025

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Send us a textIn this episode, Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois discuss the latest updates in cloud FinOps. With news from AWS, Google and Azure, incl...

WNiCF - Interview with Henk - Time series, forecasts and anomaly detections, all hard problems to crack.

11 Mar 2025

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Send us a textWe discussed the challenges of working with time series data, particularly in the context of machine learning and AI, highlighting the c...

WNiCF - January 2025 - News

25 Feb 2025

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Send us a textJanuary 2025 FinOps news.Instances/Computehttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/announcing-smaller-machine-types-for-a3-high-vm...

WNiCF - Interview - Cloud FinOps 2025: insights and predictions with Anthony

21 Feb 2025

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Send us a textIn this chat, Frank, Stephen, and Anthony share their thoughts on how cloud computing and AI have evolved from 2024 to 2025. They discu...

WNiCF - December 2024 - News

28 Jan 2025

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Send us a textA little late, but as they say, better late than never. You can provide feedback, ideas, proposals for interviews at send us an email at...

WNiCF - November 2024 - News

16 Dec 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, Frank and SteveO reflect on the year's developments in cloud computing, discussing significant updates from AWS, ...

WNiCF - October 2024 - News

21 Nov 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, Frank and SteveO discuss the latest updates in cloud computing for October 2024, covering significant announcements fro...

WNiCF - Interview - Building trust in FinOps and engineering insights by Dvir

01 Nov 2024

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Send us a textThis month, we talk with Dvir and discuss integrating engineering principles into FinOps to manage cloud costs effectively. We stress pr...

WNiCF - September 2024 - News

19 Oct 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, Frank and SteveO celebrate four years of their podcast while discussing the latest advancements in Cloud FinOps, includ...

WNiCF - Interview with James Hall - GreenOps

11 Oct 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, SteveO and Frank chat with James Hall from GreenPixie about sustainability in cloud computing. James talks about his sh...

WNiCF - Interview - Udam Dewaraja - The story of FOCUS

27 Sep 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, SteveO and Frank discuss the FOCUS project with Udam Dewaraja, exploring its origins, development, and future direction...

WNiCF - August 2024 - News

06 Sep 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, Frank and Steve discuss the latest news in Cloud FinOps, including AWS G4DN Workspaces, AWS Parallel Computing Service,...

WNiCF - July 2024 - News

08 Aug 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, Frank and Steve discuss the July 2024 FinOps announcements from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. They cover topics such as...

WNiCF - Interview with Mel - Engineers fatigue

02 Aug 2024

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Send us a textSteveO and Frank sat down with Mel, a PwC engineer, to talk about what it's like to be an engineer and the hurdles they face. They...

WNiCF - Interview with Dr James Mitchell - Financial language in FinOps and isomorphic economies

22 Jul 2024

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Send us a text"An isomorphism is the fancy maths word for an analogy." -  Dr James MitchellDr. James Mitchell, a commodities trading and re...

WNiCF - June 2024 - News

08 Jul 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode of What's New in Cloud FinOps, we (Frank and Stephen) discuss the latest news and updates in cloud computing impact...

WNiCF - Interview with TJ and Deana Solis - The social aspects of FinOps

30 Jun 2024

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Send us a textIn this live episode, recorded at FinOps X 2024, we speak with TJ and Deana Solis about the social aspects of FinOps.It is a real live e...

WNiCF - Interview with Izhak Zimmermann - I don't believe in tagging

14 Jun 2024

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Send us a textIzhak "I don't believe in tagging" Zimmermann discusses with Stephen and Frank about the importance of focusing on busine...

WNiCF - May 2024 - News

06 Jun 2024

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Send us a textSummaryIn this episode of What's New in Cloud FinOps, Frank and Stephen discuss a wide range of cloud-related news and updates. The...

WNiCF - Interview with Mike Stephenson - Azure Free tier and other

24 May 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, Steve, Frank and Mike discuss the benefits of using the free tier in Microsoft Azure. They explore the various free off...

WNiCF - April 2024 - News

17 May 2024

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Send us a textSummaryIn this episode, Frank and Steve discuss the latest news from Google, Azure, and AWS.They cover topics such as new instance types...

WNiCF - Interview with Rob Martin - The Updated FinOps Framework

16 Apr 2024

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Send us a textThis month we talk about the FinOps Framework. The Framework has been vastly improved and updated to match what FinOps practitioners are...

WNiCF - Interview with Steve Trask - The State of FinOps

11 Apr 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, Steve Trask, VP of Marketing at the FinOps Foundation, discusses the State of FinOps report and the insights gained fro...

WNiCF - March 2024 - News

05 Apr 2024

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Send us a textIn this episode, Frank and Steve discuss various news and updates in the cloud industry. They cover topics such as New AMD instances i...

WNiCF - cross podcast with Donal Bourke - Careers in FinOps

18 Mar 2024

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Send us a textIn this bonus episode, we talk about FinOps careers and how each of us, the three hosts, have come to FinOps from three very different p...

WNiCF - February 2024 - News

02 Mar 2024

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Send us a textWNiCF - February  2024 - NewsGood amount of news, some sarcastic comments and lot of opinions :) Frank's interview with StephFinO...

WNiCF - January 2024 - News

09 Feb 2024

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Send us a textFirst news episode of the year. And this time we have a limited amount of news. Dry January for FinOps news too :)  The FinOps Guys are...

WNiCF - Interview with Dimiris Perdikou - Gamification and public sector

06 Feb 2024

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Send us a textThis month Stephen and Frank are interviewing Dimitris Perdikou from the UK Home Office. The topic is Gamification, but, as often, it g...

WNiCF - FinOps 2023 trends with Lucas Paratore

24 Jan 2024

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Send us a textAn episode about FinOps in 2023. What are the themes that shaped FinOps and Cloud? What events, big or small, are defining what we will ...

WNiCF - December 2023 - News

18 Jan 2024

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Send us a textLast episode of the year. And for possibly the first time ever we have a lot of Google news and a group of sustainability articles! The...

WNiCF - November 2023 - News

20 Dec 2023

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Send us a textLoads and loads of AWS news coming from re:Invent for November. And this month we have Frank having to evacuate the building due to a fi...

WNiCF - Interview with Assaf Flatto

15 Dec 2023

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Send us a textAnother great interview, this time with Assaf Flatto. This is the three of us showing what being part of a growing community is about: ...

WNiCF - October 2023 - News

13 Nov 2023

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Send us a text!!!! You can now contact us at podcast(at)finopsguys.co.uk !!!!Frank and Stephen review the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for...

WNiCF - Interview with Alee Whitman - Don't say the S word

01 Nov 2023

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Send us a textAlee made what Stephen and I think is the best talk at FinOps X 2023. and we recommend you watch it before listening to the episode. Th...

WNiCF - September 2023 - News

13 Oct 2023

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Send us a text!!!! You can now contact us at podcast(at)finopsguys.co.uk !!!!Frank and Stephen review the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for...

WNiCF - Interview with Anthony Monthe - The cloud benchmarker

10 Oct 2023

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Send us a textCloud vendor announces new instance types every month, and the content of the announcement is always the same:  "The new instance ...

3 Years of What's New in Cloud FinOps

06 Oct 2023

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Send us a textFrank and Stephen remember some fun facts from the last three years of podcasting about FinOps. 

WNiCF - August 2023 - News

15 Sep 2023

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Send us a textFrank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for August 2023.  A lot of updates this month. Frank and Ste...

WNiCF - July 2023 - News

10 Aug 2023

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Send us a textFrank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for July 2023.  A lot of updates this month. Frank and Stephe...

WNiCF - June 2023 - News

27 Jul 2023

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Send us a textBased on the audio, it might sound as if Frank is in a small wooden box; you would be almost correct, as the small meeting room I was in...

WNiCF - Interview with Steph Gooch and Marit Hughes during FinOps X - When do you start FinOps?

03 Jul 2023

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Send us a textCurious about when doing FinOps starts? Join hosts Frank and Stephen as they tap into the expertise of FinOps gurus Stephanie Gooch and ...

WNiCF - May 2023 - News

24 Jun 2023

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Send us a textFrank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for May 2023.  The most updates we've seen from the vend...

WNiCF - Interview with Marit Hughes - Public/Private Sector comparisons

30 May 2023

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Send us a textIs FinOps the same in every organisation? Absolutely not! It varies massively by organisation but also by sector.  This month Frank and...

WNiCF - April 2023 News

19 May 2023

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Send us a textJoin Frank and Stephen talking through the latest news from FinOps in April 2023.A nice mix of AWS, Azure and even a bit of GCP.Covering...

WNiCF - March News 2023

28 Apr 2023

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Send us a textFrank and Steve dive into what's new in March 2023, with some cool stuff in AWS and Azure and even digging deep into the release no...

WNiCF - "Woman" in FinOps with Deana Solis

21 Apr 2023

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Send us a textA fantastic episode with our friend Deana Solis, a senior FinOps Engineer who is heavily involved in the FinOps Foundation and Women in ...

WNiCF - Getting Engineers to take action with Bartosz Kupiecki

23 Mar 2023

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Send us a textThis month we're joined by our friend Bartosz Kupiecki, the Head of FinOps at IncreDevo.Their team saw the issue, and attacked it w...

WNiCF - February News - 2023

08 Mar 2023

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Send us a textStephen and Frank dive into the latest news from FinOps in February, as well as a bit of a discussion on Azures FX changes that have inc...

WNiCF - What's new in January - 2023 (Better late than never...)

28 Feb 2023

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Send us a textHello everyone,This month we talk about everything that was new in January from the cloud vendors (which sadly wasn't loads) and go...

WNiCF Interview with Tom Cross - FinOps in action - The Migration

23 Feb 2023

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Send us a textWe're joined by our good friend Tom Cross at Air Lingus, who talks to us about the challenges of FinOps in reality.  Tom helps us ...

Guest Episode - Erik Carlin - FinOps Metrics - ESR

25 Jan 2023

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Send us a textThis month Erik Carlin of ProsperOps joins Steve and Frank in discussing metrics for FinOps, specifically focussing on Effective Savings...

WNiCF - December 22 News - Last bits of the year.

19 Jan 2023

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Send us a textA quick run through of the new FinOps updates from December, completing the updates for 2022.Stephen and Frank go through the key topics...

Special - Re:invent Recap (More than just FinOps)

21 Dec 2022

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Send us a textFrank and Steve lament on trips to Vegas over the years, with Frank going to this year's Re:invent again in person.  We discuss ou...

WNiCF - November News - GCP Flex CUDS and technical sound fails by Steve!

14 Dec 2022

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Send us a textIn our latest news episode, we round up everything that's happened outside of Re:invent in November (Special Re:invent Episode to f...

Special Guest - Mark Butcher - Sustainability/GreenOps - How do you get started?

15 Nov 2022

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Send us a textOur friend Mark Butcher joins Frank and Steve on a very fun episode discussing the incredibly important topic of sustainability.  We co...

October Updates (2022) - Latest news plus Ignite conference quick review

15 Nov 2022

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Send us a textFrank and Stephen delve into all the FinOps related news and releases of October, covering a wide variety of topics and blogs.They then ...

Special Guest - Rob Martin - FinOps Education with the "Chief Story Teller"

03 Nov 2022

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Send us a textFrank and Stephen are joined by their friend Rob Martin, Director of Learning from the FinOps foundation.We talk about how to get into F...

September Updates - Big Azure Saving Plan release included

01 Nov 2022

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Send us a textFrank and Steve take time between interviews to go through the latest news from September.This includes Azure's new Savings Plans w...

TJ Guest Special - Social Aspects of FinOps

21 Oct 2022

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Send us a textToday Frank and Steve are joined by TJ (Anthony Johnson), Cloud Business Manager at Box.  TJ talks to us about the new working group he...

Cloud FinOps Updates for July/August 2022

09 Sep 2022

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Send us a textSteve and Frank discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in July/August 2022. In this episode, they highlight some recent Clo...

Cloud FinOps Updates for June 2022

05 Aug 2022

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Send us a textSteve and Frank discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in June 2022. In this episode they highlight some recent Cloud FinOp...

Cloud FinOps Updates for May 2022

18 Jul 2022

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Send us a textSteve and Frank discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in May 2022. In this episode they highlight some recent Cloud FinOps...

Discussing Cloud FinOps with Kubecost Co-founder, Webb Brown

09 Jun 2022

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Send us a textIn this episode, Steve and Frank sit down and talk to the founder of Kubecost, Web Brown to discuss cloud FinOps. Webb explains how Kube...

Cloud FinOps Roundup - March 2022

30 Apr 2022

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Send us a textWe discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in March 2022. We also highlight some recent Cloud FinOps trends.Click here to le...

Cloud FinOps Updates for February 2022

28 Mar 2022

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Send us a textWe discuss the Cloud FinOps updates that were released in February 2022. We also highlight some recent Cloud FinOps articles and pull ou...

Cloud FinOps News for 2022

19 Feb 2022

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Send us a textStephen Old and Frank Contrepois are back to discuss the latest Cloud FinOps news in their first podcast of 2022! They highlight the new...

Even more AWS re:Invent 2021 updates to maximise your budget!

06 Dec 2021

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Send us a textSteve and Frank have even more announcements to share with you from AWS re:Invent 2021 so decided to record a second episode. There are ...

AWS re:Invent 2021 updates that will save you money on cloud!

03 Dec 2021

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Send us a textWe share the latest cloud FinOps announcements from AWS re:Invent! There were many announcements to choose from, but the topics we'...

Episode 13 - November Cloud FinOps News

03 Dec 2021

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Send us a textSteve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for November! This episode covers the following topics:Achieve up to 30% bett...

Episode 12 - October Cloud FinOps News

03 Dec 2021

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Send us a textAbout this podcastSteve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for October! This episode covers the following topics:AWS F...

Episode 11 - September Cloud FinOps News

29 Nov 2021

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Send us a textSteve and Frank are back with the latest cloud FinOps news for September! This episode covers the following topics: Amazon Redshift ext...

Episode 10 - August News

09 Sep 2021

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Send us a textAfter a bit of a delay caused by holidays, covering holidays, surgeries and the day job, Frank and Stephen are back to talk you through ...

Episode 9 - AWS Free Tier Game

08 Jul 2021

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Send us a textToday, Frank and Stephen talk through the news (largely from late May - early June) and then discuss what could be built using Free Tier...

Episode 8 - Lots of FinOps news in May

15 Jun 2021

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Send us a textHello everyone!This month we have lots of exciting things to tell you about!  Frank and Stephen have gone through the top FinOps storie...

Episode 7 - April - How mature is your cloud finance control?

11 May 2021

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Send us a textWhat's new in Cloud FinOps Episode 7 hosted by Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois.This month we go through what's new in Cloud F...

Episode 6 - March - The ways to forecast

26 Mar 2021

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Send us a textWhat's new in Cloud FinOps Episode 6 hosted by Stephen Old and Frank Contrepois.This month we go through what's new in Cloud F...

Podcast 5 - February - Re:invent Review

23 Feb 2021

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Send us a textThis month we run through the rather limited news in FinOps this month, before Stephen and Frank dive in to their favourite things from ...

Episode 4 - January - Recap of 2020 and looking forward to 2021

25 Jan 2021

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Send us a textToday we have a quick look through what's new in the past month in Cloud FinOps followed by a special guest segment.Our special gue...

Episode 3 - December - Optimising FaaS

22 Dec 2020

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Send us a textIn this Episode we welcome our friend and Strategic Blue Teaming Partner Dario Ferrer, founder of DFTek.  After Steve and Frank go thro...

Episode 2 - November - Top 10 FinOps Tricks

16 Nov 2020

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Send us a textIn this episode we go through the news from the last month as well as our special monthly topic - Our top 10 FinOps Tricks.News covered:...

Episode 1 - October - Why do Cloud Providers price the way they do?

06 Oct 2020

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Send us a textIn our first episode, we discuss October's FinOps news and give an in-depth understanding of why the cloud providers price in the w...