September 4, 2024
The 20 Best FinOps Memes to Make You Chuckle
4 min read
What happens when developers, finance teams, and ITOps practitioners make jokes on the internet? FinOps memes. Check out some of the top FinOps memes we could find online – giving you a little reprieve from the stress of building performant, cost-efficient software.
1. AWS Fans 🤝 Azure Fans
While Azure and AWS fans certainly don’t agree on everything, they both can agree their bills are high and hard to monitor. A deeper understanding of your specific cloud and features like savings plans and reserved instances can drive reduced costs but unexpected bills seem to be part of the game (unless using a tool like Amnic, of course).
2. Cloud Cost Reduction Drives You Mad
I believe it. DevOps and FinOps teams are burdened with so much of the workload within some organizations that balancing speed, security, reliability, and cost management could drive even the best engineers to insanity.
3. Cost Optimization is Always One More Step
Two steps forward, one step back. Cloud cost optimization is a continuous process and takes time to achieve. As soon as you’re close to your optimal cloud bill, you release new features or identify more areas for improvement. Dedicate yourself to continuous cloud cost optimization, not just one-time fixes and you’ll see the financial benefits come to fruition.
4. SaaS Tools and Cloud Providers Eat Your Budget
It’s easy to let cloud costs run away when you look at all of your SaaS platforms, observability tools, and cloud providers. Consolidating information into one place gives you a way to automate reporting and deep-dive all cloud and SaaS costs, leading to more cost-efficient software and more collaborative FinOps practices.
5. Rightsizing Your Infrastructure
You’ll find many times that databases, servers, networks, and more are overprovisioned, leading to unused resources. Why use a P5 tier database if you could use a P3 or P4 that wouldn’t cost as much? It’s important to conduct a thorough analysis of your infrastructure to understand if it’s properly provisioned for your needs.
6. Compute Optimization via Anomaly Detection and Alerts
When you’re moving so quickly, it’s easy to do something as simple as leaving an EC2 instance on. But, these small human errors can lead to costly bills. That’s where a FinOps cloud cost observability platform comes into play, helping you detect anomalous costs and alert your team of any issues before they rack up your bill.
7. Leverage Kubernetes (K8s)
Admittedly, this meme may not be the best, but it’s still a good reminder to look at Kubernetes as a way to containerize your applications and leverage autoscaling to reduce costs without hindering performance. Cost monitoring at the node, pod, container, and instance level allows you to understand how Kubernetes is affecting your bottom line and where you can improve.
8. Cloud Migration Only Helps When Optimized
Migrating to the cloud isn’t cheap unless you leverage cloud resources properly. It’s much easier to scale, manage, and update so you can dynamically optimize servers, databases, networks, and more. This means costs can also soar if AWS, Azure, or GCP resources are improperly managed or configured – so make sure you spend time getting it right.
9. Recommendations Only Work If You Know Where to Start
Recommendations are only useful when they’re able to be actioned. Luckily for you, Amnic scans your cloud resources and provides recommendations that you can start taking advantage of within minutes.
10. Automate FinOps Reports
While we certainly advocate for a cloud cost observability tool to help you automate FinOps reporting (*ahem*... Amnic), we can’t advocate for assigning all cloud costs to your cat. Although that would result in some interesting meetings with your manager.
11. Adopt FinOps
Sometimes reducing cloud costs and improving collaboration across dev, ops, and finance teams is as simple as adopting a culture of FinOps. The more alignment you bring to your financial operations with your software delivery lifecycle, the more you’re able to continue pushing new features quickly without causing headaches around your cloud bills.
12. FinOps is More Than a Tool, It’s a Mindset
Some further insight around FinOps is that it isn’t simply solved by one tool or through one person. FinOps is a mindset and a culture that’s adopted by the entire organization, continuously driving a focus on cost management and optimization via more collaboration and transparency across finance, development, and IT teams.
13. More Predictable AWS Bills
The AWS bill shouldn’t be something out of a horror film (or even a popular fantasy series). FinOps practices and tools exist now to help make your bills more predictable and create more accurate financial forecasts for the future.
14. Cloud Bills Are Too High
Like negotiating with a landlord, there are several things you can do to negotiate lower rates with your cloud provider such as longer-term contracts, savings plans, and more. Outside of negotiation, you can reduce the number of underprovisioned resources in your cloud and consolidate operations to reduce your overall cloud bill.
15. Better Budgets, Fewer Meetings
Budgets shouldn’t be overly complicated and should certainly not lead to endless meetings about how you can stay under budget. Cost observability in FinOps leads to a real-time understanding of your cloud investments and how you’re tracking against your overall budget. This way, you can make changes on the fly and ensure you stay in line with financial goals without continuous cross-functional meetings.
16. Cloud Budgeting Part 2
This meme simply made me chuckle. It’s difficult with so many development teams who likely aren’t even tracking their work against any kind of budget. FinOps teams need to ensure DevOps teams have access to the cloud budget and are accountable for the bills they incur.
17. Collaborative Cost Management for DevOps and FinOps
Mistakes happen and that’s okay. DevOps teams and FinOps teams simply need to work together to understand the cloud budget, what the company’s goals are, and how they can work together to achieve those goals. Cost management software can help you quickly identify these mistakes and remedy them before you must go groveling to your CFO or finance team.
18. Simplified Cloud Cost Reports
FinOps through Excel spreadsheets just can’t work in today’s day and age. Modern cloud infrastructure is so dynamic that managing costs manually will result in errors and delayed insights. Cloud cost observability now means you have the ability to create custom dashboards and reports, save and share them, and take action around these reports quickly.
19. Leverage Credits Effectively for the Long Haul
AWS and Azure credits are great at helping you forget about how extensive cloud costs can be. But, once they expire, you need to ensure you’re still operating in a cost-efficient manner otherwise your infrastructure costs can spiral out of control quickly. Build for the future, not just for the moment.
20. Cloud Cost Observability and FinOps
Look, we already know spreadsheets are no match for a dedicated FinOps cloud cost observability tool such as Amnic. Sign up for a 30-day free trial or request a demo today so you can start building more cost-efficient applications without hindering development speed.
