Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Maturing your FinOps practice? Building exec reports that get read? Creating cost awareness without slowing engineering? Let's talk.
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Posts by Mike Julian
Thursday 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Implementing chargeback? Finding metrics that matter? Getting teams to care about spend? Bring your challenges.
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Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Office Hours. Wrestling with RI strategy? Justifying cloud spend to your CFO? Negotiating an EA? Bring your questions.
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Thursday 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Managing costs across dozens of accounts? What's centralized FinOps look like? Maintaining agility while controlling spend?
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Thursday 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST: Office Hours. Engineering decisions meet business outcomes. Committed use discounts, multi-account strategy, showback vs chargeback.
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Office Hours Thursday, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Bring tough AWS billing questions—contracts, cost allocation, business impact. Real answers, zero fluff. No sales pitch.
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Last day at re:Invent!
I'm at booth #1217 through this afternoon if you want to connect.
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Dealing with complex cloud contracts?
I'm at #1217 demoing Skyway. Let's talk.
#reInvent #AWSreInvent
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Remember this night? Atomic Liquors, a packed patio, and re:Invent finally feeling alive again in 2022. We’re running it back on Wednesday. Join us if you’re in town!
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
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Tomorrow night we're hosting a casual gathering during re:Invent with friends from RedMonk and Heavybit. If you've been meaning to RSVP, now's the time.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
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Before re:Invent's keynote: breakfast with @QuinnyPig, @mike_julian, @jpatanooga, and fellow cloud practitioners.
Mon Ami Gabi, Tuesday, December 2. No sales pitch. Just fuel and conversation.
RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
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If your re:Invent week isn't complete without witnessing Corey Quinn interact with actual humans, this is your moment.
Wednesday at 7pm. Corey will be... well, Corey.
You can decide whether that's the reason you're attending or the challenge you're embracing.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
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Missed your AWS spend commitment? Don't panic. AWS has a neat trick with a hidden "available balance" that lets you kick that shortfall down the road, as long as you keep signing new deals. Learn how to play their game.
#finops
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Keynote preparation: breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi.
Real food, strong coffee, honest conversation about enterprise cloud realities.
Join us Tuesday, December 2 before the announcements begin.
RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
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We're teaming up with RedMonk and Heavybit to host a relaxed off-the-clock gathering during re:Invent.
No demos, no presentations—just a chance to connect with people who shape this industry.
Whether you're new to the scene or a long-timer, we'd love to see you there.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
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Trying to negotiate with AWS when your spend is shrinking? You have the negotiating leverage of a wet napkin. The only winning move is not to play. Let your contract expire, slash your costs, and then come back to the table from a position of power.
#finops
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Is your entire FinOps "team" just one person who looks perpetually haunted? The centralized vs. decentralized debate is a trap. The real answer is a hybrid "Cost Champions" model—like little sleeper agents of fiscal responsibility embedded in your teams.
#finops
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Pre-keynote breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi with @QuinnyPig, @mike_julian, @jpatanooga, and practitioners who know the first question about any new service is always about cost.
Tuesday, December 2. Complimentary. Straightforward.
RSVP: luma.com/npyv1y2k
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Started planning re:Invent? Good. Now plan your exit strategy from the Venetian.
We're throwing "the best party at re:Invent" with RedMonk and Heavybit. Wed, Dec 3 @ 7pm at Atomic Liquors.
Selfie with Corey or avoid him entirely? Both valid.
RSVP: luma.com/5naymwo1
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The day has come where we get to announce what we've been working on for the past year 😍
www.duckbillhq.com/blog/skyway-...
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Want to start a FinOps program? The secret first step: do almost nothing. Just measure everything and show people the numbers. Let the gentle, persistent shame of a public dashboard work its magic. You'll be amazed how quickly costs go down.
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So you want to know how your cloud spend stacks up against the competition? Great. Do you also want to be profoundly mediocre? Chasing benchmarks strips away everything unique about your business. Compete with the only company that matters: yourself, last month.
#finops
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Should you use an AWS reseller? For the most part, no. But there are exactly three situations where they aren't a complete waste of time. If you're just buying AWS from them and getting nothing else, you've just added a useless—and expensive—middleman.
#finops
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I shifted the guidelines as the business evolved. Originally it started with just how to do an orderly shutdown, then it evolved into both liquidation and ongoing operations
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When we were smaller:
1. Ownership in the business held by a living trust, trusted advisors named in the document
2. Credentials and corporate paperwork in 1password
3. 1password keys on file with the attorney
4. Named advisors informed of the living trust, the attorney, and their role
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Ahh, yeah, no support with RI for it.
I suppose better than nothing, but still 😆
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I thought it did?
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The first San Francisco #FinOps meetup is *tonight* at 5:30! Come hang out!
lu.ma/v75d6o5e
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If you're in San Francisco on Tuesday, we're hosting the first ever San Francisco FinOps Meetup in FiDi! Join us! lu.ma/v75d6o5e
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