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FinOps X day Amsterdam
Over the last 2 years, optimizing Snowflake from a cost perspective has been top of my list. My next step is to further expand this topic under the FinOps umbrella. The FinOps concept is new for me, so I decided to visit the FinOps X day in Amsterdam on September 23rd.
Around 400 people were present, it seems like a vibrant community and to my surprise (and perhaps relief) not a lot of software or services vendors in the audience, the absolute majority were FinOps practictioners from the field, working for companies such as Amadeus, Randstand, J&J, Bol, etc in the FinOps field.
The knowledge shared in the session was pretty much in depth, for instance the story about Bol and how they charge the costs for their cloud resources that are deployed in GCP.
Being a Snowflake guy, I found out that Snowflake was mentioned, had some chats about it, but it certainly was not a major topic. However, Snowflake and Databricks were mentioned in the keynote as 2 examples of data platform technologies that tend to run out of control as far as credits spent is concerned. This does not come as a surprise and within the FinOps spectrum, those 2 tools should certainly be high on the attention list.
One of the most interesting topics for me today, as I found out I kind of struggle with where to start, is the topic of scopes.