FinOps in Action with Spot Instances (AWS UG Nürnberg 06/26)

Hey fellow AWS enthusiasts! ✨

This evening we'll takle our AWS costs! 💪🏻💸
We are happy to have Meisi Zhan, a Customer Facing Cloud Engineer @ codecentric, joining to walk us through FinOps in Action with AWS Spot Instances.

Thanks to our friends at codecentric Nürnberg for sponsoring the event with food and drinks and opening their wonderful offices for us!

📆 Tonight's Agenda
19:00 - Welcoming
19:15 - Talk by Meisi followed by Q&A and knowledge sharing
20:00 - Food, Drinks & Networking

Looking forward to seeing you 👋🏻
Nora & Frank

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The talk ⤵️
FinOps in Action: Real-World Cost Optimization using AWS Spot Instance
The talk is about our AWS funded PoC project, this project demonstrates the implementation of FinOps principles by leveraging AWS Spot Instances to achieve significant infrastructure savings without compromising workload performance. It provides a technical blueprint for orchestrating Spot Fleets and Auto Scaling groups, offering a practical approach to data-driven cloud financial management.

The speaker⤵️
Meisi Zhan is a distinguished Customer-facing Cloud Consultant and Evangelist at codecentric, bringing over eight years of expertise in IT consulting and software engineering. As a highly experienced Pre-Sales Engineer and Solution Architect, she has a proven track record of building trusted advisor relationships and driving customer success across multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Meisi excels at translating complex technical challenges into quantifiable, TCO-justified business value and viable technical architectures. Her approach focuses on Transformation Consulting, DevOps, and FinOps, ensuring that cloud-native solutions are both innovative and financially optimized.
Get in Contact with Meis through LinkedIn.

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Please note:

At the event, photos and videos will be taken for marketing purposes both by our hosts and our location sponsors.
We try to offer a hybrid experience by providing a video stream of the talk. There will be no recording published after the event. Please also keep in mind, that we try our best effort to provide a good streaming experience. We don't offer a professional stream, so delays, technical issues or other interference are a matter to be tolerated.