Hello, welcome to the FinOps part of my second-brain where I will report on my learning and knowledge around Finance and Cloud. Cloud FinOps is nascent and you and me can help shaping it. _This is an experiment, so it will have mistakes, will change without notice, and is very in need of your expert input!_ improved documentation # [[CUR - index|CUR study ]] - [[CUR 2.0 - index|CUR 2.0]] The AWS Cost and Usage Report is how AWS shares detailed information about usage and costs. It is a massive set of files with millions of rows, ever-changing columns, and a logic that confuses everyone. But it is very transparent in connecting AWS usage with spend, but you need a tool and some logic to make sense of it. The CUR is the big topic I want to start with. I use the CUR on a daily basis to get information. The CUR is almost a mythical knowledge; no-one seems to understands it fully and when there is light at the end of the tunnel something will change and making it a new place to discover. Just in case you missed the URL in the title, here is it again :) [[CUR - index|CUR study]]. # AWS pricing study Starting with an article on the [[AWS Pricing API - study|AWS Pricing API]] # Other FinOps(y) stuff ## Investigating AWS pricing data - [Autopsy of AWS EC2 pricing - and some anomalies](https://frankcontrepois.com/post/20200417-tech-aws-infra-os-sfw/) - done in April 2020 - [Windows pricing on AWS](https://frankcontrepois.com/post/20200331-tech-winlic-on-aws/) - [AWS Pricing Anomaly](https://frankcontrepois.com/post/20200403-finance-pricing-anomaly/) [to check](https://zt.frankcontrepois.com/Zettelkasten/FinOps/Indexes/to+check) ## Azure - [[Azure virtual machine sizes naming conventions]]