FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

On February 26, 2019, the FinOps Foundation was publicly launched on a webinar hosted by a committed group of enthusiasts managing cloud cost and usage, and viewed by dozens of people around the world. The first edition of Cloud FinOps was published later that year. And like the cloud, FinOps does not stand still.

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finout

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Table of Contents What Are Cloud FinOps Tools?

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ProsperOps

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Erik Carlin, co-founder and CPO at ProsperOps, recently joined the FinOps Guys podcast to share his take on FinOps metrics including Effective Savings Rate (ESR). The discussion centered on the evolution of automated cloud financial management and the establishment of a metric to track true cloud savings.

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Azure FinOps

APRIL 28, 2022

With this in-mind, let’s consider the difficulties I’m seeing in the field as organizations struggle (I think that’s the right word) to adopt FinOps principles to their cloud usage. IT provides purely technical explanations that confuse and annoy the business and no one seems to understand what to do beyond, reduce. Change is hard.

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Azure FinOps

APRIL 28, 2022

With this in-mind, let’s consider the difficulties I’m seeing in the field as organizations struggle (I think that’s the right word) to adopt FinOps principles to their cloud usage. IT provides purely technical explanations that confuse and annoy the business and no one seems to understand what to do beyond, reduce. Change is hard.

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CloudCheckr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The same is true for cloud finances, says Benjamin van der Maas, Cloud Financial Management Practice Lead for Cloudar, a managed service provider (MSP). FinOps requires you to know exactly where to optimize your cloud costs, van der Maas says, so that you can sustain the “growth” of cloud transformation.

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CloudZero

JANUARY 12, 2022

Companies migrate to the cloud to become more productive, respond to market changes, and be flexible — while spending less on cloud infrastructure. But there is one thing that many cloud-based organizations have learned: Cloud costs add up.

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AWS FinOps

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is one of our customers’ biggest cloud financial management challenges, echoed by the State of FinOps 2022 survey for the past 2 years, and by IT leaders who ask us, “How can get our engineers to take a more active role in cost optimization?” A culture change is required.

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CloudCheckr

JANUARY 26, 2023

Whether you’ve recently adopted a cloud platform for your organization or your cloud operations are well established, there are many ways to assess the overall effectiveness of your IT infrastructure. What Is a Cloud Center of Excellence? What Is FinOps? And what are your financial expectations?

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