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FinOps brings financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud. Used by the majority of global enterprises, this management practice has grown from a fringe activity to the de facto discipline managing cloud spend. In this book, authors J. R. Storment and Mike Fuller outline the process of building a culture of cloud FinOps by drawing on real-world successes and failures of large-scale cloud spenders. Engineering and finance teams, executives, and FinOps practitioners alike will learn how to build an efficient and effective FinOps machine for data-driven cloud value decision-making. Complete with a road map to get you started, this revised second edition includes new chapters that cover forecasting, sustainability, and connectivity to other frameworks. You'll learn: the DNA of a highly functional cloud FinOps culture; a road map to build executive support for FinOps adoption; how to understand and forecast your cloud spending; how to empower engineering and finance to work together; cost allocation strategies to create accountability for cloud and container spend; strategies for rate discounts from cloud commitments; when and how to implement automation of repetitive cost tasks; and how to empower engineering team action on cost efficiency.

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J. R. Storment is executive director of the FinOps Foundation (a program of the Linux Foundation), coauthor of O'Reilly's book on cloud financial management called Cloud FinOps: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management, and was cofounder of Cloudability, which was acquired by Apptio, where he served as the general manager of Cloud and vice president of product. He has spent the last twenty-five years building web platforms and the last ten working with thousands of the largest cloud spenders in the world-from GE to Nike to BP to Atlassian to Uber to Spotify-to design strategies to optimize and analyze their cloud financial management discipline. As a full-time voice talent and Audie-nominated audiobook narrator, Lyle Blaker has narrated nearly 100 audiobook titles, as well as countless hours of e-learning narration for major companies such as Houghton Mifflin, Harvard Business School, and Refinery Pass, and is an often-used voice for WGBH Channel 2 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his warm, friendly, and approachable narration style.

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