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The FinOps Framework provides the operating model for how to establish and excel in the practice of FinOps.
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What it is

The FinOps Framework offers building blocks for a successful FinOps practice.

It encompasses principles, personas, measures of success, maturity characteristics, and functional activities in a common language that reflect how successful practitioners drive value from cloud and intersecting technology spend.

How to use it

The Framework is flexible and non-prescriptive.

With components that practitioners can select from, it enables organizations to start where the greatest need is, and evolve their FinOps practice in scale, scope, and maturity as business value warrants.

Where it comes from

The Framework has been iteratively developed from real-world practitioner experiences.

Thousands of practitioners and other industry experts continuously collaborate to share learnings through open-source best practices.

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FinOps Principles

Understand the principles of FinOps, the core values that drive the cloud financial movement.

FinOps Personas

The FinOps discipline covers many different personas, understand more about them, their roles, and requirements.

FinOps Phases

The FinOps journey consists of three iterative phases: Inform, Optimize and Operate. Understand more about each phase and how to get started.

FinOps Maturity Model

A FinOps approach of “Crawl, Walk, Run” enables organizations to start small, and grow in scale, scope and complexity as the business value warrants maturing a functional activity. Use this resource to learn more about FinOps maturity.

FinOps Domains

FinOps Domains represents a sphere of activity or knowledge. Every organization adopting FinOps will perform activities in all FinOps Domains.

FinOps Capabilities

FinOps Capabilities represents functional areas of activity in support of their corresponding FinOps Domains. Each Capability includes definitions, key personas, performance metrics, and functional activities involved in a real FinOps practice.

FinOps Scopes

A FinOps Scope is a segment of technology-related spending to which FinOps Practitioners apply FinOps concepts.

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