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FinOps Foundation
MARCH 20, 2025
Key Insight: The FinOps Framework has been updated to reflect the present-day practice of FinOps as it evolves to a Cloud+ approach to managing technology spend. The 2025 revisions reflect the addition of Scopes as a core element of the Framework, and include incremental updates to the definition of FinOps and the language used to describe the Principles, Domains, and Capabilities to align with the addition of Scopes.
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FinOps Foundation
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Understand the state of FinOps and data behind the collaborative, real-time cloud financial management discipline.
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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work
How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control
Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management
Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle
The Hidden Science Behind Why Finance Teams Resist Change—And How to Fix It
FinOps Foundation
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Key Insight: At re:Invent 2024, AWS announced numerous product enhancements that help FinOps Practitioners and their organizations optimize their cloud usage. The FinOps Foundation caught up with several AWS Product Managers at re:Invent and asked them what their teams have delivered and how these updates will impact Practitioners. These updates span from pricing calculators and commitment analyzers to help make choices before purchasing, to allocating and optimizing what you are already using,
130 Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work
How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control
Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management
Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle
The Hidden Science Behind Why Finance Teams Resist Change—And How to Fix It
FinOps Foundation
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Key Insight: Dozens of breakout sessions and interactive chalk talks at FinOps X give Practitioners insights from their peers to help solve real challenges that exist in their organizations today. Breakout session recordings are available on our website and YouTube channel for you to watch and learn from. Breakout Sessions illuminate key FinOps Topics Away from the bright lights of the big stage, dozens of more intimate sessions also happen at FinOps X in the form of breakout sessions and intera
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FinOps Foundation
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Key Insight: To support the adoption of FOCUS , the FinOps Foundation has augmented the Use Case Library with the introduction of the FOCUS Sandbox. FinOps Practitioners can use this sandbox to run SQL queries on actual (anonymized) FOCUS billing data to gain a clear understanding of what FOCUS data looks like, and the real-world insights it yields.
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FinOps Foundation
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Interview with Srivatsan Kidambi, VP of Engineering at Microsoft. Interview with Cyril Belikoff, VP of Microsoft Azure & Industry Clouds. Key Insight: Microsoft integrates GenAI into FinOps tooling to help all stakeholders get insights from cost and usage data. Microsoft is also focused on sustainability initiatives to bring carbon and cost data together.
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FinOps Foundation
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Key Insight: Oracle is partnering with other clouds and investing in FOCUS to meet customers where they are. At FinOps X in San Diego in June 2024, J.R. Storment , Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation, sat down with Phil Newman , VP of Product Management at Oracle, to talk about FOCUS and to ask Phil what he thinks the Future of FinOps will look like.
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FinOps Foundation
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Key Insight: The practice of FinOps continues to evolve around several key themes that all point to its deeper integration into existing processes, business frameworks, and technology environments. Across the globe from the Americas, to Europe, and to Asia, FinOps is shaping up to be the driver of value realization for all kinds of organizations. The FinOps Foundation was thrilled to bring FinOps X to Europe this year, where we found a community eager to engage with and learn from each other.
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FinOps Foundation
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Key Insight: Day 2 of FinOps X Europe was full of FinOps, FOCUS, and sustainability content. We were reminded that while a lot of organizations have been on their FinOps journeys for many years, others are still getting started. FOCUS is making an impact already today, but there is unlimited potential for the Specification to support additional use-cases in the future, such as normalizing carbon emissions data.
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FinOps Foundation
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Key Insight: AWS doubles down on data with commitments to deliver more types of data and finer-grained data for more of the services they offer. Better data, as well as FOCUS, will unlock faster decision-making and more innovation. At FinOps X in San Diego in June 2024, J.R. Storment , Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation, sat down with James Greenfield , VP of AWS Commerce Platform, to ask what he thinks the Future of FinOps will look like.
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FinOps Foundation
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Key Insight: Version 1.1, the fourth release of the FOCUS Specification, is now available for cloud vendors and FinOps Practitioners to adopt. This version adds new Columns that deepen support for billing data generated by cloud service providers, giving Practitioners the ability to do more granular, multi-vendor analysis. The community can expect incremental releases roughly twice per year over the next several years as the Specification is expanded to support SaaS datasets and other technology
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FinOps Foundation
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Key Insight: To effectively manage the variable nature and distributed procurement model of cloud, FinOps Practitioners have built capabilities to maximize the value of their organization’s technology investments. This has resulted in businesses asking FinOps teams to manage technology spending that extends beyond the scope of public cloud. Most Practitioners today are incorporating SaaS and Data Center costs into their practices.
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FinOps Foundation
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Key Insight: Google Cloud is investing in data to help FinOps Practitioners drive the next level of business innovation. At FinOps X in San Diego in June 2024, J.R. Storment , Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation, sat down with Pravir Gupta , VP of Engineering at Google Cloud, to ask what he thinks the Future of FinOps will look like. Pravir noted that customer expectations are evolving; Practitioners need more granular and more real-time data so they can properly forecast, allocate, and
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FinOps Foundation
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Key Insight: FinOps is continuing to shift from managing cost as an operational afterthought to a key consideration in the product design process. Data-driven business conversations about what to build, which features to include, and where to build it are now happening before engineers are handed requirements to start developing. FinOps teams can estimate, monitor, and optimize the unit cost of a product or service from inception to help drive cost-aware product decisions before architecture beg
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FinOps Foundation
AUGUST 28, 2024
Key Insight: In addition to all major cloud infrastructure providers, third-party FinOps tool vendors are adopting the FOCUS for their platforms. Thousands of Practitioners rely on these tools to perform FinOps in their organizations. To help Practitioners understand this landscape, the FinOps Foundation will continue to track vendor adoption, and will eventually offer an official certification signifying conformance with the Specification.
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FinOps Foundation
JULY 25, 2024
Key Insight: FinOps at enterprise scale requires ongoing discipline, improvement, and maintenance; even if you think you have it all right, new challenges await as your cloud footprint and utilization increases. Accenture helps clients add FinOps Capabilities sequentially – for example, “you might start with tooling and visibility and then move to forecasting” – and simultaneously establishes a regular cadence for governance meetings with both the teams consuming cloud and with senior leadership
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FinOps Foundation
JULY 10, 2024
Key Insight: The 2024 Day 2 Keynotes brought something brand new to FinOps X: feature announcements from the three largest clouds. Google Cloud, Microsoft, and AWS all announced support for FOCUS 1.0 with native billing exports, and revealed a number of important enhancements for FinOps Practitioners. Also on Day 2, American Express shared challenges they face on their FinOps journey, and Mike Fuller, CTO at the FinOps Foundation, discussed key considerations around FinOps tooling and services.
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FinOps Foundation
JULY 3, 2024
Key Insight: The FinOps X 2024 Day 1 Keynotes covered the Evolution of FinOps to include more technology spending beyond public cloud, FinOps for AI, cost-aware product decisions, carbon-aware FinOps. Stories from Disney and Uber spoke to the the constantly changing FinOps landscape, the FOCUS 1.0 GA launch landed and an executive panel of VPs from AWS, Microsoft and Google spoke together.
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FinOps Foundation
JULY 3, 2024
Key Insight: At FinOps X in San Diego last week, the three largest cloud service providers took the stage to announce feature launches and improvements to their FinOps offerings. Native FOCUS support was a ubiquitous theme, optimization recommendations were improved, and the use of AI assistants were common threads. Mike Fuller , CTO of the FinOps Foundation, and J.R.
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FinOps Foundation
JUNE 20, 2024
Key Insight: FOCUS is the unifying format for cloud bills. The FOCUS 1.0 release has been formally ratified for General Availability. FOCUS is being adopted by end user FinOps Practitioners, leading cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers, and FinOps tool vendors, who all benefit from removing complexity associated with cloud billing data normalization.
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FinOps Foundation
JUNE 20, 2024
Key Insight: While you can get to a Run state for individual FinOps Capabilities, your entire practice can not exist in a perpetual Run state across all Capabilities. Clouds, business strategies, and the economy are changing all the time. Mature FinOps practices have the ability to prioritize Capabilities that are important right now, and deprioritize others as changes occur.
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FinOps Foundation
JUNE 3, 2024
Key Insight: Carbon optimization is a growing concern for organizations, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) teams can leverage the culture of collaboration and waste reduction that FinOps teams have cultivated. Cloud Service Providers are delivering more granular carbon emissions data and tooling that FinOps practitioners can use for reporting and optimization within a cloud, and FinOps vendors are beginning to offer sustainability features to optimize carbon across clouds.
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FinOps Foundation
JUNE 3, 2024
Key Insight: Carbon optimization is a growing concern for organizations, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) teams can leverage the culture of collaboration and waste reduction that FinOps teams have cultivated. Cloud Service Providers are delivering more granular carbon emissions data and tooling that FinOps practitioners can use for reporting and optimization within a cloud, and FinOps vendors are beginning to offer sustainability features to optimize carbon across clouds.
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FinOps Foundation
JUNE 3, 2024
Key Insight: Carbon optimization is a growing concern for organizations, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) teams can leverage the culture of collaboration and waste reduction that FinOps teams have cultivated. Cloud Service Providers are delivering more granular carbon emissions data and tooling that FinOps practitioners can use for reporting and optimization within a cloud, and FinOps vendors are beginning to offer sustainability features to optimize carbon across clouds.
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FinOps Foundation
MAY 20, 2024
Key Insight: Microsoft discovered that FinOps is the key to cloud success after a lift and shift approach left savings on the table. AI and LLMs have the potential to transform an organization’s approach to migration and modernization, and towards a cost-aware architecture. Managing the cloud bill is a shared responsibility among cloud providers, customers, and partners.
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FinOps Foundation
APRIL 25, 2024
Key Insight: In March, AWS delivered four updates that help FinOps Practitioners tackle their top two key priorities this year , namely reducing waste or unused resources and managing commitment discounts. The recommended approach is to address both usage and rate optimization in tandem, and the FinOps Framework Domains have been updated to reflect that approach.
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FinOps Foundation
APRIL 25, 2024
Key Insight: In March, AWS delivered four updates that help FinOps Practitioners tackle their top two key priorities this year , namely reducing waste or unused resources and managing commitment discounts. The recommended approach is to address both usage and rate optimization in tandem, and the FinOps Framework Domains have been updated to reflect that approach.
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FinOps Foundation
APRIL 23, 2024
Key Insight: The FinOps Maturity Model – often referred to by its stages “Crawl, Walk, and Run” – is a key component of the FinOps Framework. The goal for organizations is not to get to the “Run” stage across all Capabilities of the FinOps Maturity Model, but to perform each Capability at the appropriate level of maturity for your environment.
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FinOps Foundation
APRIL 15, 2024
Key Insight: Fast cost data can mean more frequent Data Ingestion , which leads to faster decision-making ability in a FinOps practice. Helpful Anomaly Management means less noise and more news; Some vendors take a curated approach and surface fewer anomalies, while others deliver more alerts and allow you to dial down as needed. At Google Next ‘24, Google Cloud announced several new FinOps features.
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FinOps Foundation
APRIL 12, 2024
Key Insight: FinOps success results from getting FinOps practitioners, product teams, and engineers to think cost-first with architectural decisions, and that starts with clean, reliable data. One of Tim’s biggest challenges is bringing so much data together for analysis. Walmart built a data lake where they store several years of raw data in object storage so they can go back and re-parse it in different ways.
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FinOps Foundation
MARCH 21, 2024
Key Insight: The FinOps Framework has been updated to reflect the present-day practice of FinOps and to better align activities with best practices that maximize the business value of cloud. The 2024 revisions include updates to the definition of FinOps, changes to simplify the Framework organization, improvements to the Domain and Capability names, and an augmented set of Personas and Capabilities that are central to modern FinOps practices.
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FinOps Foundation
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Key Insight: With economic pressure increasing across the world in 2023, many organizations are leaning on their FinOps teams to help prioritize cloud optimizations. Reducing waste and managing commitment-based discounts unseated empowering engineers to take action as the top key priority for the first time. Teams are also investing in their forecasting capabilities to better predict cloud spend, and the cost of running AI/ML is expected to have a big impact on FinOps practices in 2024.
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FinOps Foundation
JANUARY 24, 2024
Key Insight: Assuring Finance leaders that cloud providers are committed to optimizing (and reducing) the cost of cloud services can help give executives confidence to approve cloud migration and usage. A memorable moment for Jennifer, who is Head of Engineering Excellence, was a conversation with Fidelity’s head of Finance, who explained that she has a personal fiduciary responsibility to ensure the company is spending wisely.
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FinOps Foundation
JANUARY 24, 2024
Key Insight: Hosting weekly meetings for engineers to share tips and tricks can help establish a collaborative, cost-conscious culture. Aside from a top-down focus and investment into FinOps, Athene also finds value in hosting a weekly ‘cloud demo’ where engineers share tips and tricks for building applications and addressing FinOps. It helps to establish a cost-conscious culture and a sense of community, while upleveling Athene’s engineers, who have experienced rapid change as Athene went from
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FinOps Foundation
JANUARY 24, 2024
Key Insight: Granular data helps Wallace give the right level of visibility to each stakeholder and keep everyone aligned to business goals. Wallace’s biggest challenge is dealing with a lot of different types of data: cost data, asset data, observability data, etc., all of which come from different clouds and different teams using different tools. In order to know if FinOps is “working,” SAP reviews spending and optimization progress on a weekly basis– a process sponsored and supported by leade
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FinOps Foundation
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Key Insight Google Cloud’s FinOps Hub gives teams a central place to measure and improve your FinOps practice at crawl, walk, and run stages. Summary PRACTITIONER FOCUS : Early tooling was designed for engineers, but Google Cloud’s 2023 roadmap aimed to address the needs of FinOps practitioners. DATA : Google Cloud added more metadata in BigQuery exports and went from having 40% of all costs covered by granularity to having 70% of costs covered by granularity, with plans to achieve 100%.
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FinOps Foundation
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Key Insight AWS Cost Optimization Hub deduplicates competing recommendations from AWS cost optimization tools, so practitioners can optimize usage and rates simultaneously, and trust the savings number that they see is achievable. Summary Cost Optimization Hub : Cost Optimization Hub pulls recommendations from all AWS cost optimization products together and deduplicates competing recommendations, so customers can optimize usage and rates simultaneously, and trust the savings number that they see
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FinOps Foundation
JANUARY 24, 2024
Key Insight: Granular data helps Wallace give the right level of visibility to each stakeholder and keep everyone aligned to business goals. Wallace’s biggest challenge is dealing with a lot of different types of data: cost data, asset data, observability data, etc., all of which come from different clouds and different teams using different tools. In order to know if FinOps is “working,” SAP reviews spending and optimization progress on a weekly basis– a process sponsored and supported by leade
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FinOps Foundation
JANUARY 25, 2024
Key Insight Microsoft is expanding the cost and usage data available in the portal so that FinOps practitioners can gain insights that improve their practice. Summary Education : Microsoft wants to help organizations learn how to adopt FinOps. While tools help with implementing FinOps, the cultural shift can be more difficult, so Microsoft is focusing on teaching people about the collaboration that is required to be successful with FinOps.
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FinOps Foundation
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Key Insight AWS Cost Optimization Hub deduplicates competing recommendations from AWS cost optimization tools, so practitioners can optimize usage and rates simultaneously, and trust the savings number that they see is achievable. Summary Cost Optimization Hub : Cost Optimization Hub pulls recommendations from all AWS cost optimization products together and deduplicates competing recommendations, so customers can optimize usage and rates simultaneously, and trust the savings number that they see
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FinOps Foundation
JANUARY 24, 2024
Key Insight: The definition of Cloud FinOps is evolving to reflect the practices of more than 16,000 community members who are managing public and private cloud together, incorporating other consumption-based PaaS and SaaS solutions, deepening interactions with sustainability and other IT disciplines, and sharpening focus on the overall business value of cloud.
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FinOps Foundation
JANUARY 24, 2024
Key Insight: Assuring executive s that cloud providers are committed to optimizing (and reducing) the cost of cloud services can help give Finance teams confidence to approve cloud migration and usage. A memorable moment for Jennifer, who is Head of Engineering Excellence, was a conversation with Fidelity’s head of Finance, who explained that she has a personal fiduciary responsibility to ensure the company is spending wisely.
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FinOps Foundation
JANUARY 24, 2024
Key Insight: Hosting weekly meetings for engineers to share tips and tricks can help establish a collaborative, cost-conscious culture. Aside from a top-down focus and investment into FinOps, Athene also finds value in hosting a weekly ‘cloud demo’ where engineers share tips and tricks for building applications and addressing FinOps. It helps to establish a cost-conscious culture and a sense of community, while upleveling Athene’s engineers, who have experienced rapid change as Athene went from
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FinOps Foundation
JANUARY 24, 2024
Key Insight: Granular data helps Wallace give the right level of visibility to each stakeholder and keep everyone aligned to business goals. Wallace’s biggest challenge is dealing with a lot of different types of data: cost data, asset data, observability data, etc., all of which come from different clouds and different teams using different tools. In order to know if FinOps is “working,” SAP reviews spending and optimization progress on a weekly basis– a process sponsored and supported by leade
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