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FINOPS AT UT AUSTIN

PRESENTED AT CF23

MAY, 2023

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Agenda

Overview of where we started on our FinOps journey

Optimizations we've made, demo of Cost Intelligence

Dashboards (CID)

Goals for FinOps automation at UT Austin

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Oh look clouds! Let's go get cloud smart!

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The Great Migration

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Great in the sense that we increased our discount considerably and no longer needed to rely on DLT for invoicing, support or service delivery.

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Was it UT's last migration? Perhaps not.

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Process analysis and improvement through:

    • Relentless process review
    • Collaboration with AWS, external vendors and with peers across campus
    • Learning from other projects

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Suddenly dashboards!

We came back from Re:Invent with a dream.

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We've just started letting folks on campus test it out.

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Let's have a little demo:

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Resources

Well-Architected Labs

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AWS Support

https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/cost/200_labs/200_cloud_intelligence/

Speak to your TAM, have them connect you with help.

It is mostly presented before an audience.

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What comes next?

Single pane of glass billing

Automating provisioning

Guard Rails

Automating chargebacks

Ongoing Strategic Business Reviews/Campus Presentations

Savings Plan & Reserved Instances Consultation

Automated Architecture Diagrams (Lucid)