200: Now you can make bad cloud decisions like running EKS on SNOW

EKS on Snow Devices

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team highlights the new Graviton3-based images for users of AWS, new ways provided by Google to pay for its cloud services, the new partnership between Azure and the Finops Foundation, as well as Oracle's new cloud banking, and the automation of CCOE. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

This week’s highlights

AWS: Users now have access to the new Graviton3-based images.
GCP: Google provides new ways to pay for Google Cloud Service.
Azure: Microsoft becomes a premier member of the Governing board at the Finops Foundation.
Oracle: Oracle introduces Oracle Banking Cloud Services

Top Quotes

"It's important to sort of have that structure; even if you're starting with a single account or project, you want to make sure you're building something that can grow to multiples as you keep it"
"There's lots of things that you want to probably be automating; all the policies, all the governance, how you validate membership… that should all be really thought about from an automation perspective from day one"

AWS: Users now have access to the new Graviton3-based images.

New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances
️️ The new M7g and R7g come in medium to 16xlarge.

GCP: Google provides new ways to pay for Google Cloud Service.

0️⃣ Introducing new cloud services and pricing for ultimate flexibility
Flex Agreements and Flexible Cuds were also announced in relation to this.

Azure: Microsoft becomes a premier member of the Governing board at the Finops Foundation.

0️⃣ Microsoft joins the FinOps Foundation
Azure hopes to define specifications and help evolve best practices globally

Oracle: Oracle introduces Oracle Banking Cloud Services.

0️⃣ Redefining Banking SaaS—Introducing Oracle Banking Cloud Services
Their approach is defined by 9 core elements related to security, resilience, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and others. .

The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)

This final installment of CCOE focuses on automating the CCOE and tracking CCOE metrics for adoption.
Tagging is a crucial part of the security, access, or cost management strategy, which should be developed early, and as such cloud resources should be retrofitted for it and older ones should be tagged.
One of the ways for a CCOE to demonstrate its value through automation is the metrics of adoption.