Is it a Savings or a Spend Reduction? Disney FinOps Engineer Alee Whitman Helps Us Identify

Alee Whitman, Sr. Staff Engineer at Disney, shows us how Disney normalizes multiple cloud provider data to set FinOps savings goals and track progress. With a better look at usage optimization best practices, Alee helps our community answer the FinOps question: is it a savings or spend reduction?

00:00 Main Breakout
19:47 Q&A

This talk was part of FinOps X 2023. Check out the full Keynotes and other breakout sessions.

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[anthonylyons]

Excellent job. Very well presented and some great insights into how Disney manage their cloud costs.

[deztech]

Awesome session, Alee, thanks for sharing your experiences and for reminding everyone that inaccuracies are okay and that this is an iterative process.

[mattrommel]

Insightful presentation and impressively on-brand

[gma_reads]

Well done, Alee. A good distinction between savings, spend reduction, and cost avoidance. Your conversation around setting and tracking budgets should be helpful to many teams! So glad you got engineers to log their successes in spend reduction.