FinOps Related Sessions
We have a curated list of FinOps sessions happening at re:Invent. Look for the following sessions on the AWS re:Invent portal.
Using AWS savings instruments in a FinOps journey (sponsored by Spot by NetApp), PRT292
Nov 28 @ 4:45pm, Level 3, Lido 3003, Venetian
In this session, learn about the FinOps journey at Roku and how Spot by NetApp utilized AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans together with Spot by NetApp solutions to help improve the compute unit costs for Amazon EC2 as well as for additional AWS services.
Simplify your AWS cost estimation, COP205
Nov 29 @ 3:30pm, Level 1 North, South Pacific F, Mandalay Bay
Join this chalk talk to learn how you can plan for changes to your workload and simplify your cost estimate. Understand how modifications of your purchase commitments, resource usage, and commercial terms affect your future AWS spend.
FinOps: How to empower software engineers to take action and improve cloud efficiency, PRT077
Nov 29 @ 5:35pm, Hall B, Expo, Lightning Theater 1, Booth #435, Venetian
We all know that the #1 challenge a FinOps or Cloud Financial Management team faces is getting engineers to take action (2021 & 2022 State of FinOps Report), but do you know why this is the case? Better yet, how do you know the processes & technology that you bring to bear actually help or hinder your software engineers?
Cloud cost optimization: Only paying for what you need, COP207
Nov 30 @ 8:30am, Level 1, Encore Ballroom 5, Encore
In this session, learn about strategies for holistic cloud cost optimization, how AWS has improved its cost-optimization recommendation solutions, and how you can use those solutions to map capacity to your needs and make better cost-optimization decisions while maintaining high performance.
Refactoring the product and engineering relationship, STP204
Nov 30 @ 10am, Level 1, Encore Ballroom 5, Encore
The cloud has changed how software is built, but what about the product and engineering relationship? With nearly every engineering decision now a buying decision, these two roles must learn new ways to work together to blend business, technical, and customer requirements.
Cloud FinOps: Empower real-time decision making (sponsored by VMware), PRT322
Nov 30 @ 10am, Level 1, Forum 121, Caesars Forum
As organizations align their processes to the realities of operating in the cloud, they seek to understand what they are spending and, more specifically, how they can analyze their infrastructure in their business context. FinOps practitioners can implement a dedicated solution to analyze data, manage anomalies, and measure unit costs.
The others: Optimizing forgotten AWS services, COP208
Nov 30 @ 10:45am, Level 1, Forum 101, Caesars Forum
When looking at AWS spend, organizations often consider the same top 5 services and well-known ways to optimize their use. But what about other AWS services that don’t contribute to the biggest spend but still shouldn’t be ignored? In this chalk talk, learn about some of these other services and discover insights and quick methods you can take away to optimize and save money. Join us and bring your questions!
FinOps: The powerful ability of insight to accelerate AWS (sponsored by Anodot), PRT035
Nov 30 @ 10:55am, Hall B, Expo, Lightning Theater 2, Booth #3543, Venetian
Learn tactics and best practices for developing your AWS cost management strategy by minimizing noise and maximizing the relevance between your FinOps practice and your unique business objectives.
CloudFix: The nonstop way to find (and fix) AWS-recommended savings opportunities, PRT086
Nov 30 @ 5:35pm, Hall B, Expo, Lightning theater 1, Booth #435, Venetian
Rahul packed the house and captivated audiences at AWS Summit Anaheim. Grab a front row seat in Vegas, and unlock the same tools and strategies he uses to achieve easy, scalable savings across 45,000 AWS accounts.
FinOps: Intersecting cost, performance, and software license optimization (sponsored by Flexera), PRT306
Dec 1 @ 11am, Level 3, Murano 3306, Venetian
Within the rapidly maturing FinOps discipline, cost is the driving force behind the optimization of cloud resources. Actions taken to optimize costs may be detrimental to application performance or be at odds with licensing restrictions for the software running on those resources. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Dec 1 @ 11:45am, Level 3, South, South Seas A, Mandalay Bay
With historically significant inflation putting pressure on bottom lines, organizations are increasingly facing tough choices about how to reduce operational expenses and improve efficiency. In this session, explore the unique opportunity cloud provides for achieving these goals by retaining resources for innovative and business-critical projects while eliminating consumption that isn’t driving business value.
How to monitor and reduce your compute costs, CON405
Dec 1 @ 11:45am, Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn
As organizations adopt Amazon EKS to securely and reliably run their mission-critical workloads in the AWS cloud and on premises, it is essential that they have tools to monitor and optimize what they spend to run their Kubernetes applications. This builders’ session demonstrates cost-reduction steps in a sample architecture and then shows ways you can identify and reduce compute costs in your environment using OpenCost, Kubecost, Karpenter, and AWS Graviton.
Optimize your AWS cost and usage with Cloud Intelligence Dashboards, BSI304
Dec 1 @ 3:30pm, Level 1, Encore Ballroom 5, Encore
Attend this session to learn how organizations are using the Cloud Intelligence Dashboards to start their FinOps journeys and create cost-aware cultures within their organizations. Discover how unit economics, resource-level visibility, and periodic spend updates can make it possible for FinOps practitioners, developers, and business executives to come together to make smarter decisions.
