FinOps documentation

FinOps combines financial management principles with cloud engineering and operations to provide organizations with a better understanding of their cloud spending. It also helps you make informed decisions on how to allocate and manage your cloud costs.

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What is FinOps?

Tutorial

Conduct a FinOps iteration

What's new

FinOps blog

Download

FinOps with Azure e-book

Training

FinOps review assessment

video

Implement FinOps for Azure

FinOps Framework

The FinOps Framework is a comprehensive set of best practices and principles to help organizations drive greater business value from the cloud.

Understanding cloud usage + cost

• Data analysis and showback
• Cost allocation
• Managing shared cost
• Data ingestion and normalization

Performance tracking + benchmarking

• Forecasting
• Budget management
• Measuring unit costs

Real-time decision making

• Managing anomalies
• Establishing a decision and accountability structure

Cloud usage optimization

• Resource utilization and efficiency
• Workload management and automation
• Onboarding workloads

Cloud rate optimization

• Managing commitment-based discounts

Organizational alignment

• Cloud policy and governance
• Chargeback and finance integration
• FinOps education and enablement
• Establishing a FinOps culture
• FinOps and intersecting frameworks

Tools

Cost Management

Azure Advisor

Azure Governance

FinOps toolkit

Microsoft Fabric

Azure FinOps guide

FinOps Foundation

Microsoft partners with the FinOps Foundation. The FinOps Foundation is a place for practitioners to advance their career through connections, best practices, education, and specifications.

Getting started + community

• FinOps Foundation
• FinOps events
• Community Slack
• Microsoft member profile

Learning + best practices

• FinOps certification and training
• YouTube channel
• FinOps Framework

Projects + resources

• FinOps Open Cost and Usage specification
• Working groups
• State of FinOps
• Tools, services, and training