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FinOps Fundamentals and Cloud Cost Management

FinOps helps organisations control and optimise cloud spending. This episode explains how teams can improve visibility and accountability across cloud costs.

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FinOps Fundamentals and Cloud Cost Management

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Managing cloud computing costs is a pressing challenge faced by organisations of all sizes across industries. As businesses increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, the complexity of managing and optimizing costs grows exponentially. Without proper oversight and strategy, cloud expenses can quickly spiral out of control, leading to budget overruns and financial inefficiencies. 

Vantage addresses this issue head-on by providing organizations with a powerful platform equipped with automated cost recommendations, customizable reports, and real-time monitoring capabilities. By leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning, Vantage empowers teams to gain unparalleled visibility into their cloud spending and make informed decisions to optimize costs. 

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions speaks to Ben Schaechter, CEO and Co-founder of Vantage, to discuss: 

  • Cloud cost management
  • FinOps
  • Cost optimization
  • Automated cost recommendations

Vantage is the leading independent FinOps solution, simplifying cloud cost management through native integrations and automations – helping customers optimize their spend and realize savings. Vantage optimizes billions of dollars in annualized infrastructure costs for over 10,000 organizations globally, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, including Block, PBS, and Aflac. 

Vantage was founded in 2020 by Ben Schaechter and Brooke McKim. They are applying the same ethos of simplicity to the demystification of cloud bills gathered from their combined experiences leading infrastructure teams at AWS and DigitalOcean. Located in NYC, Vantage includes professionals with experience scaling companies like AWS, DigitalOcean, Stripe, MongoDB, GitHub, and Cloudflare.