FinOps and GreenOps at MoJ

Standards

Mandatory practices that must be followed within Ministry of Justice.

• Tagging Standard

Patterns

Discover good and best practise patterns for your projects

Workload Optimisation

• What is Workload Optimisation?
• Upgrade EBS Storage Type from gp2 to gp3
• EBS Snapshot Optimisation
• Migrate to Graviton based instance types

Rate Optimisation

• What is Rate Optimisation?
• Reserving Infrastructure Capacity
• Spot Instances

Tools

Explore the tools and dashboards to monitor and manage usage, cost and sustainability

• Cost & Usage Dashboard (Beta)
• AWS Billing and Cost Management Tools
• Azure Cost Dashboards
• Website Carbon Calculator

Resource Library

A collection of guides, templates, best practices, and reference materials to support FinOps and GreenOps initiatives across the Ministry of Justice

• Environmentally sustainable services - Service Manual
• Managing your spending in the cloud - gov.uk
• Make your technology sustainable - Point 12 of Technology Code of Practice
• Managing legacy technology
• Retireing your Service - Service Manual
• Procurement Policy Note 06/21: Taking account of Carbon Reduction Plans in the procurement of major government contracts
• PPN 01/24 Carbon Reduction Contract Schedule
• Green Software Patterns
• FinOps Framework
• Sustainable by design
• Web Sustainability Guidelines
• Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification
• General reference framework for ecodesign of digital services (RGESN) - 2024
• sustainable-software-guidelines

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