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What is cloud FinOps?
This revision card explains What is cloud FinOps? It starts from the need that engineering ships features; finance sees a surprise AWS bill. Nobody owns the gap. It describes finOps is the practice of teams sharing ownership of cloud spend: visibility, accountability, and optimization. The how-to section notes tag resources , then Cost Explorer / CUR , then budgets and anomaly alerts , then right-size and buy commitments carefully. An example on the card is a weekly review shows idle gp3 volumes; deleting them cuts waste without touching prod traffic.
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Why do we need it?
Engineering ships features; finance sees a surprise AWS bill. Nobody owns the gap.
What is it?
FinOps is the practice of teams sharing ownership of cloud spend: visibility, accountability, and optimization.
FinOps
How to do it
Tag resources → Cost Explorer / CUR → budgets and anomaly alerts → right-size and buy commitments carefully.
Example
A weekly review shows idle gp3 volumes; deleting them cuts waste without touching prod traffic.