FinOps for Teams

FinOps done hands-on, for engineers, finance and product teams. As the new FinOps lead at a food-delivery company on AWS and Azure, query a real-shaped FOCUS billing export with SQL, allocate costs and show them back to teams, enforce tagging, catch an anomaly, rightsize and clean up waste, choose savings plans and reservations, split Kubernetes costs, see the cost of a Terraform change before it ships, measure unit economics, and run budgets and forecasts. Built on the FinOps Foundation framework, with FinOps Certified Practitioner exam prep.

Learning Outcomes

• Explain the FinOps principles, personas and the Inform, Optimize and Operate phases, and how teams share ownership of cloud cost
• Query a FOCUS billing export with SQL: billed, effective and list cost, charge and pricing categories
• Allocate costs by team, find untagged spend, enforce a tagging policy and split shared costs
• Report trends by provider, service and team, and detect and respond to cost anomalies
• Rightsize, schedule and clean up waste: idle instances, orphaned volumes and storage tiers
• Choose savings plans, reservations and spot, and track coverage, utilisation and effective savings rate
• Split Kubernetes costs by namespace and fix low efficiency
• Shift left: see the cost of a Terraform change with Infracost before it ships
• Measure unit economics, run budgets with forecast alerts, and decide between showback and chargeback
• Run the FinOps practice: maturity, governance, sustainability, and FinOps Certified Practitioner exam prep