YV Ravi Kumar, VELU NATARAJAN, Parag Bhardwaj

Broschiertes Buch

Finops for Snowflake

A Guide to Cloud Financial Optimization

Beschreibung

Unlock the full financial potential of your Snowflake environment.

Learn how to cut costs, boost performance, and take control of your cloud data spend.

This book is your essential guide to implementing an automated, Snowflake-optimized FinOps strategy. In today s data-driven world, financial optimization on platforms like Snowflake is more critical for business success than ever before. This book delivers actionable insights into managing Snowflake s consumption-based pricing model, making it a must-read for professionals in cloud financial operations, data management, and platform governance.

Through clear explanations and hands-on examples, you'll learn how to align Snowflake usage with business objectives, apply proven cost management techniques, and performance tune without compromising speed or scalability. The book covers everything from foundational principles to advanced strategies, including architecture tuning and consumption, workload, and storage efficiency techniques. It also features detailed case studies that show how leading organizations have implemented FinOps strategies to achieve measurable cost savings and performance gains.

Whether you're new to FinOps or refining existing practices, FinOps for Snowflake provides a detailed roadmap for establishing effective processes, tools, and governance frameworks empowering you to make data-driven, cost-effective decisions in your Snowflake environment.

Start optimizing your Snowflake environment today get your copy of FinOps for Snowflake now.

What You Will Learn

· Master FinOps for Snowflake Cost Management, enhancing collaboration among finance, technology, and business teams.

· Deliver accurate, real-time data to stakeholders for informed decision-making.

· Implement targeted optimization strategies for architecture, standards, data modeling, compute, and storage.

· Leverage Snowflake Cortex AIfor effective cost governance.

· Apply

Autor

Y V Ravi Kumar is an Extraordinary Ability (EB1-A) Einstein Visa recipient, an Oracle Certified Master, an Oracle ACE Director Alum, and is TOGAF certified. He is an IEEE Senior Member with more than 27 years of multinational leadership experience in banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) verticals. Ravi Kumar has co-authored six books and has served as technical reviewer on six other books. Ravi Kumar is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) and Expert (OCE) across multiple Oracle versions and technologies, and is certified in PostgreSQL, MySQL, and multi-cloud architectures (OCI, AWS, GCP). He has published more than 100 Oracle technology articles and has spoken four times at Oracle Cloud/OpenWorld (OOW) in Las Vegas/San Francisco. He has delivered technical sessions at various Oracle user groups, including IOUG, OCW, NYOUG, and Quest Oracle Community. Ravi Kumar has designed data centers and implemented mission-critical databases for core banking solutions for two major central banks in the world. He also is a Snowflake Squad Member, Snowflake Data Super Hero 2025, and certified in Snowflake Pro. Velu Natarajan is a seasoned analytics professional with over 18 years of experience delivering scalable, high-performance data solutions. As a leader in the Database Cloud Center of Excellence, he drives cloud transformation and database migration strategies to ensure business continuity. Velu is recognized for his innovative work in Cloud FinOps, earning the 2024 Discover President Award for developing cost-optimization tools that enhanced performance and cross-functional collaboration. He has presented at major industry events like Snowflake Summit 2024, sharing insights on cost and performance optimization. He holds certifications as a FinOps Certified Practitioner, Snowflake Pro, and Architect. Outside of work, Velu enjoys soccer and blockbuster movies. Parag Bhardwaj is a FinOps specialist with extensive knowledge in cloud financial management, optimization, and governance. As the Principal Cloud Solutions Architect for a major global airline’s Cloud and Engineering platform team, he ensures cost-efficiency and accountability in cloud environments. Parag has led significant cloud financial optimization projects, integrating DevOps tools and infrastructure governance to enhance business value.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apress / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 979-8-8688-1735-9
• First Edition
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm
• ISBN-13: 9798868817359
• Artikelnr.: 74721236