Cloud Engineering
FinOps Foundations
Take charge of your cloud costs with FinOps! This course will help you optimize your organization’s cloud usage and spending, using the FinOps framework to gain financial efficiency and visibility across your cloud environments
Duration
1 Days

Target Audience
Designed for leaders and practitioners in finance, technology, and business teams, this course will equip you with the knowledge to successfully introduce and manage FinOps within your organization
What you'll learn
- Define and Motivate FinOps
- Gain a clear understanding of FinOps, including how it addresses industry-wide and organization-specific issues related to cloud cost management, and how to motivate its adoption within your business.
- Learn the core FinOps principles and how to apply them to solve real-world problems, making the case for FinOps as a valuable approach to managing cloud spending.
- Use a semi-formal framework to establish and structure your organization’s
- FinOps approach, guiding the adoption of FinOps techniques and practices across your teams.
- Understand and Use FinOps KPIs
- Learn how to identify key performance indicators (KPIs) that are critical for tracking FinOps success, and how to use them to monitor cloud usage, optimize costs, and drive continuous improvement.

Prerequisites for Success
Prerequisites for Success
Some familiarity with general cloud computing concepts. A basic understanding of cloud infrastructure and services will help you make the most of the FinOps principles and practices taught in this course

COURSE AGENDA
FinOps Overview
- Defining FinOps: Learn what FinOps is, its purpose, and how it integrates finance and operations to manage cloud costs.
- Motivating FinOps: Understand the reasons why FinOps is becoming essential for managing cloud financial operations and how it benefits organizations.
- FinOps Principles: Explore the key principles that guide the successful implementation of FinOps, ensuring financial accountability and collaboration across teams.
- Who Benefits from FinOps?: Identify the key stakeholders who benefit from FinOps, including finance teams, cloud engineers, and business leaders.
A FinOps Framework
- Why a FinOps Framework?: Learn why having a structured
- FinOps framework is crucial for effective cloud cost management and financial accountability.
- How to Use the FinOps Framework: Understand how to practically apply the FinOps framework to your organization, ensuring smooth adoption and consistent practices.
- Framework Overview: Get an overview of the FinOps framework and its components that align finance, technology, and business teams.
Some FinOps Practical Focuses
- KPIs: Understand the importance of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in measuring the success of your FinOps efforts, and learn how to track progress.
- Teams and Structures: Discover how to structure FinOps teams and collaborate effectively across finance, engineering, and business teams.
- Useful Tools: Explore the tools available for FinOps automation, reporting, and cost management to streamline cloud cost control.
- Resources, References, and Certification: Access valuable resources, references, and information on FinOps certification to advance your knowledge and skills.