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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By : Jeroen Mulder
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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By: Jeroen Mulder

Overview of this book

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your enterprise with the transformative power of multi-cloud adoption? As a cloud architect, you understand the challenges of navigating the vast array of cloud services and moving data and applications to public clouds. But with 'Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects, Second Edition', you'll gain the confidence to tackle these complexities head-on. This edition delves into the latest concepts of BaseOps, FinOps, and DevSecOps, including the use of the DevSecOps Maturity Model. You'll learn how to optimize costs and maximize security using the major public clouds - Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Examples of solutions by the increasingly popular Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud have been added in this edition. Plus, you will discover cutting-edge ideas like AIOps and GreenOps. With practical use cases, including IoT, data mining, Web3, and financial management, this book empowers you with the skills needed to develop, release, and manage products and services in a multi-cloud environment. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the intricacies of multi-cloud operations, financial management, and security. Don't miss your chance to revolutionize your enterprise with multi-cloud adoption.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Transformation to managed FinOps in multi-cloud

In terms of maturity, we have reached the level of understanding financial management in cloud and how we can set up cost aware design process. But our challenge is multi-cloud. We will likely have to deal with more than one cloud platform, what makes cloud financial management even more complicated. Still, we can use the FinOps principles to get to managed multi-cloud financial operations.

The FinOps Foundation provides a comprehensive model for managed operations, using three stages: inform, optimize, and operate. We will recognize this from the model that we showed in Figure 11.2.

This is a continuous cycle and part of the entire cloud operations. In multi-cloud this implies that this cycle must be fulfilled for every cloud platform that we are utilizing. In multi-cloud we need a single pane of glass, covering all the platforms in our landscape.

First, let’s explore the three phases in the cycle:

  • Inform: this phase is about visibility...