Covers sustainable IT operations: GHG Protocol Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, the Green Software Foundation's Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) and its three levers, carbon-aware computing, and region selection by grid carbon intensity. Also covers PUE and related data-centre metrics, idle resources, embodied carbon and cloud carbon footprint tools.
Covers cost management for AI/ML and generative AI workloads: GPU and accelerator costs and utilisation, training versus inference spend, token-based pricing and cost per inference unit economics. Explains model selection and right-sizing, caching and batching, provisioned throughput versus on-demand capacity, and how to allocate shared AI costs to teams.
Covers cloud financial management as defined by the FinOps Foundation: the Inform, Optimize and Operate phases, FinOps principles and personas, and showback versus chargeback. Also covers tagging and cost allocation, unit economics, commitment discounts, rightsizing, Spot capacity, the FOCUS billing data specification and common FinOps tools.