Stress-test judgement

FinOps Academy: Architecture scenarios

Work through ambiguous production situations where several answers may appear reasonable.

Scenario 01

Cost Optimisation: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Cost Optimisation. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 02

Budgets and Alerts: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Budgets and Alerts. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 03

Azure Advisor: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Azure Advisor. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 04

Reservations: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Reservations. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 05

Savings Plans: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Savings Plans. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 06

Tagging Strategy: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Tagging Strategy. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 07

FinOps Governance: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving FinOps Governance. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.