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Dieter Matzion Portfolio

Last updated on 10/17/2024

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Dieter Matzion

FinOps Ambassador

matzion.com

matzion@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/matzion

Cloud FinOps since 2013 at companies like:

O'Reilly Author, Cloud Academy instructor, YouTube Creator

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Thought Leadership

Certifications	FinOps Practitioner certification link, AWS Certification Subject Matter Expert (SME) Associate link


Advisor	FinOps Foundation Ambassador and strategic advisor at Hennepin County


Consulting	Independent contractor consultant sharing my industry experience with corporations, private equity firms, and professional service firms at Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), Guidepoint Global, AlphaSights, and NewtonX.


Collaboration	Chaired the Cloud Forecasting runbook at the FinOps Foundation. Proofread O'Reilly book Cloud FinOps: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management link.


Social Media	Cloud computing YouTube channel here and website http://matzion.com

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Public Speaking

AWS re:Invent 2016	Start Your Cost Optimization: Learning from Intuit’s Cloud Journey (ENT315) recording, slides


AWS re:Invent 2018	Manage, Control, and Optimize Your AWS Costs with Native AWS Products (ENT305) slides


CloudHealth 2018	Cloud Cost Optimization and Efficiency at Intuit slides, recap

AWS re:Invent 2019	Manage, control, and optimize costs with native AWS products, ft. Intuit (CMP207) slides


CloudLive 2019	Intuit Cloud Cost Optimization slides, speakers CloudLive is sponsored by CloudHealth which is a VMware company.

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Public Speaking continued

CloudyCon 2019	Intuit Cloud Cost Optimization slides, speakers CloudyCon is sponsored by Cloudability which is an Apptio company.


AWS re:Invent 2022	Using AWS savings instruments in a FinOps journey (PRT292) recording, slides


O'Reilly Media 2024	Cloud Superstream 2024: Navigating FinOps Overcoming Cloud FinOps Challenges recording, slides


Cloud Congress 2024	Cyber Security & Cloud Congress: North America 2024�Optimizing Cloud Costs: A FinOps Guide for Engineers agenda, speaker, slides

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Training

O'Reilly Media	Cloud FinOps Fundamentals: Learn the Basics of Cloud Financial Management course, author profile Managing Cloud Costs - How to apply FinOps strategies to decrease your cloud spend Oct & Dec 2019


Cloud Academy	FinOps: Forecasting Cloud Costs preview Cloud Financial Management: Beyond Just Optimization preview Cost Optimization Strategies for the Cloud. preview Self-paced 60 min courses with slides & voice recording. Author profile link.

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Core Competencies

FinOps / Cloud Financial Management

FinOps, Agile, and DevOps

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FinOps / Cloud Financial Management

Discounts
Volume discounts link Enterprise Discount Programs (EDP) link Prepay discounts / Reserved Instances link

Visibility
AWS Detailed Billing Report (DBR) link / Cost & Usage Report (CUR) link AWS Cost Explorer link

Elasticity
Scheduled scale down / termination Utilization driven auto-scaling link AWS Spot / Spot Fleet link & case studies

Right-sizing
Match compute with utilization link Find equivalent services at lower cost link Containers & Serverless

Developer engagement
Scorecard / ubiquitous visibility / gamification Governance / Guardrails vs Gatekeepers Monthly stand-ups / Immersions / Tech Talks FinOps culture link

Fault Tolerance
Failover automation / Active-active load balancing Failure as a service link Failure injection link

Performance Tuning
Performance analysis tools link Automated cost & performance optimization link

Security & Compliance
Meet requirements efficiently DevSecOps culture

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The cloud is different from a data center

Instances are cattle, they're not pets. You don't get to name them�Dave Hahn, Netflix

Turning off resources stops incurring cost
Data transfer now incurs a cost
EC2 offerings often lack ephemeral / local disk
EBS can be unattached / unused and still incur cost
Destruction of EBS on EC2 termination can randomly fail
S3 objects have no last access time (yet)
Interrupted multi-part S3 uploads are unusable but incur cost
AWS API throttling can look like success
AWS tagging is unreliable / needs additional tooling
Containers need to be right-sized to avoid EC2 underutilization
VPC may run out of IPs due to Lambda ENI being cached for 60 mins
Complex microservices necessitate strategies like Simian Army

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Cloud Overview

What is Cloud?
Compute and storage as a service Software defined infrastructure

Why Cloud?
Speed of innovation Undifferentiated heavy lifting Pay-as-you-go / horizontal scaling Elasticity / economy of scale / global

What is Different?
Procurement / month-end bill Customer responsible for governance Shared responsibility model

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Cloud Migration

2014

Brandon Butler, Network World, IDG, 2014 and 2015

Migration Strategies link
Retire Revisit Rehost (forklift) Replatform (lift-and-shift) Refactor Replace

HA/DR Patterns
Single region Data backup to secondary region Pilot light & re-hydrate Active-active

Successful & speedy strategy
Lift-and-shift to the cloud, refactor in the cloud

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AWS Cloud Compliance (2016)

Certifications
C5, Cyber Essentials Plus, DoD SRG, FedRAMP, FIPS, IRAP, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, MLPS Level 3, MTCS, PCI DSS Level 1, SEC Rule 17-a-4(f), SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3

Regulations
CISPE, DNB, EU Model Clauses, FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, HITECH, IRS 1075, ITAR, My Number Act, U.K. DPA - 1988, VPAT / Section 508, EU Data Protection Directive, Privacy Act Australia & New Zealand, PDPA - 2010, PDPA - 2012, PIPEDA, Spanish DPA Authorization

Frameworks
CIS, CJIS, CSA, ENS, EU-US Privacy Shield, FISC, FISMA, G-Cloud, GxP (FDA CFR 21 Part 11), ICREA, IT Grundschutz, MITA 3.0, MPAA, NIST, PHR, Uptime Institute Tiers, UK Cloud Security Principles

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5 Reasons To Move Your Storage to the Cloud, Matt Blanchard, 2016

Pay-as-you-go Model

Patterson on Cloud Computing, James Hamilton, 2010

Horizontal Scaling

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FinOps, Agile, and DevOps

Source: FinOps Foundation

FinOps Lifecycle

Agile Framework

DevOps Lifecycle

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Who is Dieter personally?