FOCUS (Financial Optimization and Cloud Usage Strategy) is a framework within FinOps that aims to optimize cloud costs and usage while aligning financial and operational goals. The FOCUS framework is designed to address the challenges associated with cloud cost management, including visibility, accountability, and optimization. By implementing FOCUS principles, organizations can achieve better control over…
What is the meaning of FinOps, and what does it stand for? FinOps, a combination of Finance and DevOps (not to be confused with FinOps in finance, which stands for Financial Operations), is a cloud financial management practice that aims to bring teams together to ensure a company maximizes its cloud ROI (Return on Investment)…
Showback in FinOps is a cost allocation method that provides visibility into cloud resource usage and associated costs without directly charging internal teams or departments. The importance of showback in cloud cost management cannot be overstated. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud services, understanding and optimizing costs becomes crucial. Showback provides the necessary insights to…
What is Cloud FinOps? FinOps: A History and Introduction Amazon Web Services launched in 2006; however, there was no way for users to see a detailed view of which services they were using and how much they were spending. As bills started to grow in terms of money spent and complexity, in 2011 the first…
A Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) is an organization’s centralized team or function that establishes and maintains cloud governance, best practices, and standards. In FinOps, a CCoE is instrumental in establishing and enforcing cost management policies, providing visibility into cloud spending, and driving continuous optimization efforts. By centralizing cloud expertise and governance, a CCoE enables…