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. with native billing exports, and revealed a number of important enhancements for FinOps Practitioners. Google Cloud, Microsoft, and AWS all announced support for FOCUS 1.0

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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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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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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Cloud FinOps community has grown exponentially since the launch of the FinOps Foundation in 2019. The Cloud FinOps community has grown exponentially since the launch of the FinOps Foundation in 2019. The FinOps Framework has created consistency in terminology, practices, and approaches that benefit this interaction.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Key Insight: The FinOps Foundation’s Technical Advisory Council has approved an updated definition of FinOps. Over the next few months, other changes to the FinOps Framework will follow. The first edition of Cloud FinOps was published later that year. And like the cloud, FinOps does not stand still.

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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. Why is the Maturity Model part of the FinOps Framework? FinOps teams can use these descriptions as general indicators of where your needs are today.

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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. Partners can help facilitate optimal usage.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 25, 2024

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 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.

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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. We first explored this anticipated shift in the second edition of Cloud FinOps (pg.

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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. Data suggest that sustainability and FinOps practitioners are up to the task.

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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.

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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.

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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. Developing SQL queries to run on their data is how FinOps Practitioners can creatively solve business problems.

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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.

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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.

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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 Google Cloud’s 2023 roadmap aimed to better address the needs of FinOps practitioners. Future features will aim to get all stakeholders invested in FinOps outcomes.

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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. Data suggest that sustainability and FinOps practitioners are up to the task.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Insight Since clean, usable data underpins all of FinOps, Microsoft is expanding the cost and usage data available to you in the portal, and making more datasets available to you through cost management exports. Summary Education: Microsoft is investing in helping organizations learn how to adopt FinOps.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

After realizing that an initial lift-and-shift cloud strategy was costly, Andrew (Andy) Boerjan, Vice President of IT at Athene, saw how FinOps-focused cloud operations facilitates rapid cloud adoption and growth. Andrew believes that FinOps will bring much more than cost savings to their business.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

After realizing that an initial lift-and-shift cloud strategy was costly, Andrew (Andy) Boerjan, Vice President of IT at Athene, saw how FinOps-focused cloud operations facilitates rapid cloud adoption and growth. Andrew believes that FinOps will bring much more than cost savings to their business.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

In order to know if FinOps is “working,” SAP reviews spending and optimization progress on a weekly basis– a process sponsored and supported by leadership. FinOps best practices empower SAP to deliver visibility at a granular level – project, team, resource, etc.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

In order to know if FinOps is “working,” SAP reviews spending and optimization progress on a weekly basis– a process sponsored and supported by leadership. FinOps best practices empower SAP to deliver visibility at a granular level – project, team, resource, etc.

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ProsperOps

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

There’s no better time to expand our reach and deepen our capabilities, given the nascent maturity of FinOps as a discipline, not to mention the recession in tech. Most companies are leaving money on the table The FinOps Foundation’s 2023 State of FinOps report lays out the thesis for ProsperOps in 2023 and beyond.

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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. Mike sees some of the most interesting FinOps challenges arise after a team has been established for a few years.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

In order to know if FinOps is “working,” SAP reviews spending and optimization progress on a weekly basis– a process sponsored and supported by leadership. FinOps best practices empower SAP to deliver visibility at a granular level – project, team, resource, etc.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

In order to know if FinOps is “working,” SAP reviews spending and optimization progress on a weekly basis– a process sponsored and supported by leadership. FinOps best practices empower SAP to deliver visibility at a granular level – project, team, resource, etc.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

In order to know if FinOps is “working,” SAP reviews spending and optimization progress on a weekly basis– a process sponsored and supported by leadership. FinOps best practices empower SAP to deliver visibility at a granular level – project, team, resource, etc.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

In order to know if FinOps is “working,” SAP reviews spending and optimization progress on a weekly basis– a process sponsored and supported by leadership. FinOps best practices empower SAP to deliver visibility at a granular level – project, team, resource, etc.

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FinOps Foundation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Fidelity is 5 years into their FinOps journey, and as Jennifer Hays, Sr. Fidelity has been successful with a “Hub & Spoke” model for FinOps: A core team completes tasks that can benefit the entire company, but each business unit is free to choose their own clouds and resources, and has their own FinOps practice in place.

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ProsperOps

DECEMBER 6, 2023

“Faces in FinOps” is hosted by Jon Myer and powered by ProsperOps. Welcome to Episode 14 of the Faces In FinOps Podcast, powered by ProsperOps, with your host, Jon Myer! Her journey from a DevOps engineer to a pivotal role in the FinOps domain is both inspiring and informative.

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ProsperOps

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“Faces in FinOps” is hosted by Jon Myer and powered by ProsperOps. Greetings and welcome to another stellar episode of the Faces In FinOps Podcast, powered by ProsperOps, with your host, Jon Myer. Whether you are new to #FinOps or a seasoned pro, this episode has something for everyone so tune in to the Faces in FinOps Podcast today.

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ProsperOps

APRIL 25, 2023

The insights are particularly valuable for teams as they begin their FinOps journey and subsequently mature through its phases. Start with the Right Metrics to Understand Cloud Resources and Rates FinOps cost optimization can be thought of as spanning two universes: financial and engineering.

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ProsperOps

APRIL 25, 2023

The insights are particularly valuable for teams as they begin their FinOps journey and subsequently mature through its phases. Start with the Right Metrics to Understand Cloud Resources and Rates FinOps cost optimization can be thought of as spanning two universes: financial and engineering.

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Sage Intacct

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As FinOps takes a bigger role in charting the growth of a SaaS company, what are the benchmarks for what to do, and when? Companies are continually striving to improve their performance and it is important to know how you stack up to your peers.

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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. Data suggest that sustainability and FinOps practitioners are up to the task.

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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. The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS ) is an open-source technical specification for cloud cost and usage billing data. What is FOCUS? Why a FOCUS Sandbox?

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