Turn Raw Cloud Data into Meaningful FinOps Insights
in just 1 day?
What you’ll learn
- You will have a full functional Cost Analysis Solution for Azure..
- Display daily billing data from Azure on FOCUS format in Power BI.
- Build a Databricks workspace without coding or previous technical knowledge..
- Start with a Power BI cost Dashboard with basic cost indicators.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- Create Storage Account –> 3 lectures • 9min.
- Databricks Set up –> 4 lectures • 26min.
- Power BI Setup –> 1 lecture • 6min.
Requirements
in just 1 day?
When I say 1 day, I’m being very conservative.
If you have all the requirements in place, I risk to say that you may be able to build that even in a shorter period!
Big data size
So you have an idea (and I know you do), one year of raw billing data can range between 50GB to 100GB. For a matter of
comparison, if you were to save the entire Wikipedia in text format, it would be 30GB.
- The amount of raw data related to cost and usage is extremely huge.
- Manual processes in Excel were nearly impossible due to the data size, forcing summarization that led to the loss of
critical details.
Third-Party tools
There are many third-party tools out there. Although they have many cool features, getting an existing third-party tools have
their own challenges:
- They were prohibitively expensive.
- Need to go through an exhausting Procurement process,
most of them lacked the flexibility I needed for tailored
analysis.
Open source tools
I will not lie to you. There are also good open source options
out there. Just Google it and you will find. I’ve done this already
and I can tell you what going to happen.
- Huge amount of documentation, requiring lots of time to
decode. - Require technical expertise that you don’t have at hand.
- Time wasted on trying to find the best option among all.
Why do you need it after all?
As a FinOps person, you need cost and usage data. And that’s it. You know why. I know I’m talking here to a FinOps
practitioner. Maybe you have already taken your Practitioner Certification. Maybe you took the FOCUS free course or either
took your FOUCS certification.
I will not waste your time giving an exhaustive list of reasons why you need a robust cost reporting. Nevertheless, let me tell you the major ones based on my experience. I’m sure you will relate with some of them.
- Without proper visibility, I saw firsthand how cloud
spending could spiral out of control. - Unexpected cost spikes disrupting budgets,
- Lack of clarity slowing decision-making.
Teams operating in silos can generate all sort of problems from a cost perspective. Without a robust, automated cost
analysis system, organizations are at risk of losing financial stability, limiting innovation, and falling behind competitors.
- They fail to align financial goals with technical operations,
- Leading to waste and inefficiency.
That’s why I build it
Not acting was not an option to me. I first built this solution to solve my own real situation.
I explored existing solutions, but they all fell short. Expensive third-party SaaS platforms were out of reach for small teams
or companies without structured FinOps departments.
None of these options offered a simple, cost-effective, and scalable approach that FinOps professionals like me could
deploy themselves—until now.