Cloud FinOps

“The cloud is the new Mainframe”

FinOps Principals

When optimizing your cloud deployments for financial efficiency you can leverage tools the cloud provider has offered up to assist with forecasting your costs.

For example we can watch the AWS Cost Explorer to manage our on-demand, reserved and spot cost — however, optimum financial operations (finops) requires a detailed knowledge of your traffic load (sporadic, sustained, time sensitive) and your distribution of static and autoscaled resources.