This article demystifies amortized cost in the context of FinOps (cloud cost management), explaining and illustrating how cost and usage data reporting can reflect reality and support good decisions.
Explore the entire Power BI toolchain with this comprehensive guide and elevate your tool-building capabilities for FinOps and other data-oriented solutions on Power BI, Azure and Fabric.
To deepen your BigQuery cost insights beyond raw billing data, this article shows you how to break down usage by jobs and tables using INFORMATION_SCHEMA and Audit Logs. It highlights the valuable parts of INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS and TABLE_STORAGE_USAGE_TIMELINE, and also compares it to Audit Logs.
As BigQuery usage surges, FinOps teams are facing a challenge to keep things under control. In this post, I walk you through seven actionable levers in fair detail to help you gain complete control.
How Power BI and Fabric evolved from Excel, through SQL Server, Power Query and Power Pivot plugins, Power BI Services in the cloud, and on to Azure and Fabric offerings. Useful complementary information to understand today's Power BI offerings.
Choosing the right option between Excel, Power BI Pro/Premium Service, and Fabric Capacities is not so straightforward for a home-grown FinOps stack. This guide walks you through the different “levels”, clarifying features, constraints, licensing, and pricing.
730 is a powerful math shortcut for FinOps. Learn how to use it to translate hourly rates in cloud pricing into average monthly costs, normalize trends across uneven months, amortize commitments, and do quick forecasts. A tiny constant with an outsized impact on clarity and accuracy.