266: AWS Billing Finally Comes into FOCUS

Welcome to episode 265 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s a full house this week – Matthew, Jonathan, Ryan and Justin are all here to bring you the latest in cloud news – including FOCUS features in AWS Billing, Magic Quadrants, and AWS Metis. Plus, we have an Andoid vs. Apple showdown in the Aftershow, so be sure to stay tuned for that! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

• Tech reports show Gartner leads in the BS quadrant 
• Oracle adds cloud and legal expenses to their FinOps hub
• AWS Metis: Great chatbot, or Greek tragedy waiting to happen? 
• The cloud pod rocks Cargo Pants 
• A sonnet is written for FOCUSing on spend

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General News

01:40 Finops X

• Recently Justin attended FinOps in beautiful and sunny San Diego – and if you weren’t there, you really should plan on attending next year. This year’s topics included:
  • Focus 1.0
  • State of Vendors
• Conference size – they will most likely outgrow this particular conference center, seeing as how they’re either selling out or pretty close to it. 
• Coolest thing about the conference – on stage all the biggies – TOGETHER. 
  • It’s great to see them all together talking about how they’re making Finops better, and introducing new things for Finops and not just saving them for their own conferences. 
• Next Year  – Is Oracle going to be on stage next year? 

08:22 Justin – “The shift left of FinOps was a big topic. You know, how do we get visibility? How do we show people what things are going to cost? How do we make sure that, you know, people are aware of what they’re doing? And so I think, you know, it’s just a recognition that is important and just as important as security is your cost. And in some ways security is part of your cost story. Because if you bankrupt your company, that’s a pretty bad security situation.”

10:17 Introducing Managed OpenSearch: Gain Control of Your Cloud with Powerful Log Analysis 

• Listen. We don’t really *care* about OpenSearch – but the reality is it’s taking over the world. Nobody is doing ElasticSearch anymore. 
• Digital Ocean is launching Managed OpenSearch offering, a comprehensive solution designed for in depth log analysis, simplifying troubleshooting, and optimizing application performance. 
• With Digital ocean you can Pinpoint and analyze log data with ease, customize log retention, enhance security and can scale with your business and receive forwarded logs from multiple sources including Digital Ocean droplets, managed databases, etc. 
• Interested in pricing? You can find that here. Or, if you’d like to take a product tour, you can do that