Awesome FinOps

A curated list of awesome FinOps resources

FinOps, also called Cloud Financial Management, is a set of principles, practices and tools to increase an organization's ability to understand cloud costs, make business tradeoffs, and ultimately get the most value out of their cloud spending.

Contents

• Communities
• Education
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Online Courses
  • Certifications
  • KPIs
• Tools
  • Open Source Tools
  • Commercial Tools
• Job Postings

Communities

• FinOps Foundation - Its goal is to advance the discipline of FinOps and cloud financial management through best practices, education and standards. It is a member of The Linux Foundation.
• LinkedIn - Cloud FinOps Practitioners
• Reddit - r/FinOps

Education

Articles

• Understanding Data Transfer in AWS - Make sense of the complex world of data transfer cost in AWS.

Books

• Cloud FinOps - Seminal book by founders of the FinOps Foundation.

Online Courses

• edX - Introduction to FinOps - Self-paced, 1-2 hour introduction.

Certifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner - Two-day training course and certification by the FinOps Foundation.

KPIs

• finopsfoundation/kpis - List of common KPIs by the FinOps Foundation.

Tools

Open Source Tools

• Cloud Custodian - Stateless rules engine for policy definition and enforcement, with metrics, structured outputs and detailed reporting for clouds infrastructure.

Commercial Tools

• Cloudability
• CloudCheckr
• CloudHealth
• Densify

Job Postings

• FinOps Foundation Job Board

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