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Ep.4: FinOps for the Rest of Us Featuring Sara Gadallah

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On this episode, Shon Harris talks with Sara Gadallah, Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst at Atlassian, to discuss the role FinOps plays in Cloud Ops. FinOps is a rapidly transforming landscape that plays a crucial role in driving business growth, efficiency, and transparency. Sara shares her journey into FinOps, the practices of FinOps, and how collaboration between different teams is essential in making informed decisions on cloud cost optimizations. They also discuss the importance of continuous collaboration and education, the culture change needed to drive engineers to see cost as another operational metric, and the alignment of FinOps and data security.

Chapters:

  • What is FinOps, and how do you explain it to someone who has never heard of it? (0:03:55)
  • How FinOps enables businesses to get more for every dollar they pay in the cloud (0:04:33)
  • Sara's experience joining Atlassian's FinOps team and the impact it had on the company (0:05:08)
  • The crawl walk run methodology of FinOps and where Atlassian's FinOps capabilities stand (0:07:30)
  • Breaking down silos and integrating cost as another operational metric (0:10:30)
  • The alignment of FinOps and data security (0:12:06)
  • Quantifying the benefits of FinOps to management (0:15:02)
  • The culture change needed to drive engineers to see cost as another operational metric (0:17:51)
  • The importance of empowering engineers with data to take informed decisions on cloud cost optimization (0:18:06)
  • The role of FinOps in bridging the gap between finance and engineering (0:19:20)
  • The importance of sustainability in FinOps (0:22:27)
  • The structured process of cloud cost management at Atlassian (0:25:35)
  • Empowering engineers to optimize service cost and providing recommendations (0:27:03)
  • The impact of FinOps on sustainability and innovation (0:29:58)
  • The role of FinOps in setting unit costs and optimizing towards specific metrics (0:33:53)
  • The different roles within FinOps and the importance of connecting with the FinOps Foundation (0:39:35)
  • Previewing Sara's upcoming talk at FinOps X with Teresa Mead on cloud budget processes at Atlassian (0:42:13)
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