FinOps - DEEP
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.