Cloud Financial Management

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Why You Should Never Join the AWS Community Builders Program

I was an AWS Community Builder in ML from 2021 to 2024. AWS did not extend the relationship because, according to AWS, the book “Hands-On AI Trading with Python, QuantConnect and AWS,” which I co-wrote as the lead author, does…
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AWS Credits & Discount Programs Overview

AWS continuously expands the range of their services and to stay competitive, your AWS architecture requires constant adjustments. Optimizing your cloud architecture within AWS demands a strategic approach, with a pivotal emphasis on comprehensive experimentation. Recognizing the crucial role that…
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FinOps is dead, long live the Cloud Financial Management

The FinOps Foundation substantiates its existence by the fact that about a third of all cloud spend is wasted and focuses majority of its attention on cloud spend, rather than long-term profitability – their definition of FinOps implies that FinOps…
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Top 3 Performance Optimization Insights from using DevOps Guru for RDS

This post is written in collaboration with Oquant, a next-generation real-time artificial intelligence company poised to take a leadership role in AI and quantitative finance. Oquant’s initial product is a fully automated trading platform built on a one-of-a-kind AI trading…
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FinOps Foundation’s “FinOps Certified Professional” Certification

I write to share my experience and reflections upon being the first students, and graduates (Jiri) of the FinOps Foundation’s FinOps Certified Professional certification program. Significance of the Cloud Costs Problem While only 5-15% of IT workloads have been moved…
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