FinOps

Optimize your organization's cloud costs and performance with FinOps

Why adopt a FinOps approach?

The cloud offers flexibility and scalability. But without control, it can become a major source of cost overruns. FinOps (Financial Operations) puts you back in control:

Reduce costs

by identifying wastage

Aligning IT/Finance/Business

for a coherent cloud strategy

Enhanced governance

for greater visibility and informed decision-making

FinOps objectives

Controlling Cloud costs

FinOps aims to identify waste and inefficiencies, and implement corrective actions to reduce expenditure:

  • Unused resources: Identify and remove unused instances, storage volumes and services. 
  • Choosing the right instances and services: Adapt instance types and services to the real needs of applications, to optimize the cost-performance ratio. 
  • Price negotiation: Negotiate advantageous contracts with cloud providers to obtain discounts and more attractive pricing conditions.
  • Modify architecture: Decouple and use cloud services when more advantageous.

Enhanced cloud visibility and governance

FinOps provides tools and processes to track and control cloud spend:

  • Centralize billing data: Collect and centralize billing data from all cloud providers for better visibility and accurate tracking of expenses.
  • Set budgets and quotas: Define budgets and quotas for each team or project to limit cost overruns.
  • Reporting and data analysis: Generate reports and analyses to identify consumption trends and anomalies.

Aligning IT resources with business needs

FinOps provides tools and processes to track and control cloud spend:

  • Centralize billing data: Collect and centralize billing data from all cloud providers for better visibility and accurate tracking of expenses.
  • Set budgets and quotas: Define budgets and quotas for each team or project to limit cost overruns.
  • Reporting and data analysis: Generate reports and analyses to identify consumption trends and anomalies.

The different components of FinOps

Cloud governance

  • Definition of policies and processes to ensure responsible use of the cloud: definition of budgetary, security and procurement rules
  • Implementation of governance tools to automate and centralize cloud management: Cloud Management Platform, Cloud Infrastructure as Code, Cost Management

Budgeting and cost monitoring

Define budgets for each team, project or department. Real-time tracking of Cloud expenses 

  • Generate detailed reports 
  • Automatic alerts when budgets are exceeded
  • Analyze billing data

Optimizing resources

  • Tools to identify unused instances, underutilized storage volumes and inactive services
  • Get recommendations for optimizing the use of cloud resources

Automation

  • Tools to automate instance provisioning, server configuration, application deployment and back-up management
  • Development of scripts and pipelines to automate repetitive tasks.
  • Integration with CI/CD tools to automate cost optimization

FinOps culture

  • Raising awareness and training teams
  • Encouraging communication and active collaboration between IT, Finance and Business teams
  • Setting up an incentive program to reward teams who contribute to cost reduction and optimization of resources.

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