Articles written by FinOps leaders and practitioners aimed to improve cloud financial management.
We’re kicking off the year with a sneak peek at our findings from the soon-to-launch State of FinOps 2021 report. The report launches on February 3rd, 2021, but we’d like to start chatting about early findings with our community. Last year (seems like so long ago doesn’t it?), we kicked off our State of FinOps […]
FinOps practitioners come from organizations of all sizes and from a variety of roles. This series aims to highlight our community members so we can learn a bit more from their perspectives. Tim Prentice is the Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Air New Zealand, and a member of the FinOps Foundation. We asked Tim a […]
We’re back with the next installment of our Community Member Highlight series. This time we’ll be getting to know Jordi Espasa Clofent, Head of FinOps & Tech Procurements at Letgo. Let’s kick it off with how Jordi describes how he got to this current point in his FinOps career: “I got a sort of a […]
We’re proud to announce the launch of the 2020 State of FinOps survey. Please learn more about the survey, how to take it, and how to share it with other FinOps practitioners. Why are we doing this survey? As the leading community on cloud financial management best practices for companies of all sizes, we commonly […]
To celebrate the launch of the FinOps Foundation’s recent Kubernetes whitepaper, we held a live panel discussion with 5 experts to answer member questions from the 295 participants who joined. Unlike our typical member only calls, this session was open to the public as it was a collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s CloudNativeCon […]
In the three months since we announced our merger with the Linux Foundation, our FinOps practitioner membership of those whose job it is to do cloud financial management has grown from 1,500 to 2,500 people. Today we’re announcing new best practice content, a new self-paced training course, and new vendor members! This month we hired […]
The FinOps Kubernetes SIG (Special Interest Group) recently finished a whitepaper that will launch on November 17 and we’ve invited its authors to have a joint discussion about managing container costs in an upcoming event on November 19, 2020. We’re excited to announce our very first whitepaper by the FinOps Foundation called, FinOps for Kubernetes: […]
We’re trying a new thing here: re-sharing our member newsletter on the blog. It’s full of information that anyone can use and we wanted to bring it outside of our usual email for everyone to enjoy. Hello and happy November, FinOps community! Read on to learn about all the upcoming FinOps-related job openings, industry articles […]
We’re taking a moment to highlight one of our own FinOps Foundation members in a series of interview posts. This series aims to highlight our community members so we can learn a bit more from their perspectives. Arnaud Alcabez is the Director of Cloud Computing Training for Global Knowledge France, a certified AWS instructor, and […]
Over 180 community members joined us this month for the second part of our FinOps Rate Series, where we cover GCP CUD and BigQuery flat-rate discount optimization. There’s a lot of complexity when you get into discounts and savings rates across all the cloud platforms. To demystify at least some of the GCP ones, we […]
The 2nd in a 3 part FinOps Foundation series on Rate Optimization across clouds called “Do you have reservations about commitments?” After the AWS Savings Plan session last month, we are diving into Google Committed Use Discounts and BigQuery reservations this month! Azure RIs will be next. Session Abstract – Oct 8 @ 9am Pacific […]
This month, over 20 community members met for the Idea Exchange to discuss best practices, tips, and tricks on cloud expense forecasting and budgeting. Cloud finance forecasting can be a complicated exercise. Costs across different VMs, storage, containerization, and other services aren’t all billed the same way. Add in discounts and things can get messy. […]
The end of September is chock full of cloud finance management content from some of the biggest cloud providers out there. Here are our picks for FinOps Foundation members to check out. AWS, Azure, and GCP continue to provide free global events that attendees can experience virtually, anywhere. Also, there’s no need to ask your […]
What a month it has been: we crossed the 2000 practitioner member mark, became part of the Linux Foundation, welcomed VMWare, Apptio and Google to our Technical Advisory Council, launched our Vendor Member programs at KubeCon, and last week our Governing Board approved our budget to begin hiring! What does that mean? The FinOps Foundation, […]
In August, we celebrated the first annual International FinOps Day with two big cloud financial management sessions on AWS Savings Plans and FinOps for Kubernetes. The new Technical Advisory Council was formed and our new FinOps Certified launch partners came together. Watch for more in September including a GCP CUD session… Recaps from FinOps Day […]