Azul Systems is further promoting cloud cost efficiencies through official membership of the open-source FinOps Foundation.
Azul offers Java platforms for enterprise cloud, an alternative to Oracle Java.
“For many enterprises, Java is the backbone powering critical business applications and services in the cloud. Cloud cost optimisation has emerged as a top priority,” the vendor explained.
Azul Platform Prime aims to help organisations minimise potentially costly Java compute spend without damaging performance.
This includes by for example swapping out typical Java runtimes like Amazon Corretto.
Cloud infrastructure savings can come in at around 20%, Azul said. For example, more transactions per container can allow fewer servers.
Devops teams can raise the CPU utilisation threshold for autoscaling to 35-45%, lowering overall cloud costs to handle Java workloads, it added.
The FinOps Foundation is a Linux Foundation project.
Promoting cloud cost efficiency through finops
The idea is to promote good cloud financial management. The Foundation has 23,000 members across some 10,000 companies.
“By increasing awareness and education on finops, the Foundation will help grow this space,” the website says.
“Very few people know how to implement finops. And there’s not yet a commonly agreed set of published principles.”
Its activities include training and certification programmes, including FinOps Certified Practitioner and FinOps Certified Professional.
Dozens of major service and platform providers have become certified, according to the Foundation.
The FinOps Foundation also supports an open-source specification for cloud cost and usage billing data. Called the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS), it’s intended to reduce finops complexity.
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