FinOps Foundation

JULY 9, 2025

FinOps-Enabled Executive Decisions (FEED) focuses on leaders who highlight the importance of integrating FinOps early in strategic planning, enhancing scenario modeling, applying unit economics, and optimizing vendor partnerships—supported by executive sponsorship, better data, and stronger cross-functional collaboration.

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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

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

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

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

JUNE 2, 2025

New collaboration bridges FinOps and ITAM/SAM through community, education, and best practice working groupsresponding to growing organizational convergence of the two practices

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FinOps Foundation

MAY 21, 2025

New Premier Members Including American Express, NVIDIA, AMD, ServiceNow and Snowflake Reflect the Expanding FinOps Practices, and will gather in San Diego at FinOps X

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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

JUNE 3, 2025

Introducing FOCUS™ 1.2: Now practitioners can report on SaaS and PaaS cost and usage data in the same schema as other FOCUS-supported data. Also learn more about improved invoice reconciliation and granular, deeper cloud cost allocation.

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FinOps Foundation

JUNE 4, 2025

FinOps X 2025, the home of FinOps, continued into its next day of content with our second Keynote. FinOps leaders and community took to the stage to discuss FinOps for AI + AI for FinOps, showcase practitioners demonstrating AI proficiency, and announce Cloud Feature Launches.

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FinOps Foundation

JUNE 4, 2025

At FinOps X 2025, the major cloud providers, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, unveiled expanded FOCUS™ support, and AI-powered product features that empower FinOps practitioners.

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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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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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