Articles written by FinOps leaders and practitioners aimed to improve cloud financial management.
This week we are excited to hear from Peter Shi. Thinking about cloud efficiency, we asked Peter what he thinks about the question “When do cloud savings start to kick in?” Peter was generous to share his view on this from years of experience working with hundreds of organisations. — When asking a room of […]
We invited Steve Schechter, the Director, Cloud Services, at Velocity Technology, to talk about the FinOps landscape in Hong Kong. Please enjoy this guest perspective. — As cloud adoption accelerates around the world, FinOps is increasingly recognized as a critical component of successful cloud management. The Asia Pacific region remains a slightly different story; locally […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
FinOps takes an agile approach to manage cloud spend and make sense of it to business leaders. It requires multi-discipline teams to both operate and communicate well with one another. Here’s a peek at one company’s path to FinOps success. Ahead of their upcoming member call this week, I had a short preview conversation with […]
The FinOps Foundation team was very excited to have our guest Charles Renert, Technology Team Lead at Capital One walk through some FinOps best practices and stories from the field. A small panel of other Cloud Custodian users from Here Technologies, Verizon, and Nationwide added context and color to Cloud Custodian best practices and use […]
Okay, while it takes far more than 15 minutes to learn, understand, and master FinOps and its many best practices and cultural shifts, it’s nice to have one reference point for the high-level look at things. I’d like to take some time to highlight Deepak Ramchandani Vensi’s post about FinOps. For a movement like FinOps […]
In a recent blog post by a FinOps Foundation member from Intuit, Jason Rhoades lays out a killer visual model for understanding the jobs-to-be-done in Cloud Financial Managment on two axis: 1) Strategic vs. Tactical and 2) Finance vs. Cloud Tech. Jason maps these decision points on a cloud cost landscape and discusses the critical […]