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Guides.
- G01 Allocation Guide Cost allocation assigns technology costs to responsible teams across different organizational dimensions. Teams allocate direct and shared costs using hierarchies, tags, and business metadata. 3 ch · 8 min guide
- G02 Anomaly Management Guide Detect spending deviations from historical baselines, automate incident dispatch to Service Owners, and enforce remediation to eliminate cloud waste. 3 ch · 3 min guide
- G03 Architecting and Workload Placement Guide Architecting and workload placement is the capability to design workloads and choose where they run, with cost in view. It gives teams a design that meets performance, reliability, and business goals at the right cost. 3 ch · 4 min guide
- G04 Data Ingestion Guide Data ingestion transforms raw billing data into structured cost information. This pipeline establishes cost visibility and financial governance. 4 ch · 5 min guide
- G05 Governance, Policy and Risk Guide Governance establishes automated guardrails that prevent waste across three sequential phases: compliance visibility, two-tier policy guardrails, and runtime lifecycle automation. 3 ch · 6 min guide
- G06 KPIs and Benchmarking Guide KPIs and Benchmarking connect cloud and AI spend to business outcomes to maximize value. Measure the status quo, set KPIs to improve, and benchmark internally and externally. 3 ch · 5 min guide
- G07 Licensing and SaaS Guide License and SaaS management makes sure your company uses what it buys. It cuts unused seats and helps you pay the best rate. 3 ch · 5 min guide
- G08 Plan to Budget Guide Connect shift-left architecture estimation, workload-driven forecasting, and dual budget enforcement into a single closed-loop lifecycle. 3 ch · 4 min guide
- G09 Rate Optimization Guide How to cut cloud rates through Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts, and Spot. 3 ch · 11 min guide
- G10 Showback Guide Deliver transparent cloud cost visibility directly to engineering teams using native cloud accelerators, turnkey open-source tooling, and lakehouse platforms. 2 ch · 2 min guide
- G11 Tagging Strategy Guide Establish multi-cloud metadata governance, link CMDB assets, and enforce pre-deployment validation and cloud control plane policies. 2 ch · 8 min guide
- G12 Unit Economics Guide Unit economics connects cloud cost to business output. It shows what one customer, order, or feature costs to serve. 3 ch · 11 min guide
- G13 What is FinOps FinOps is a way of working that helps a company get the most business value from the cloud. Engineering, finance, and business teams work together. They decide with timely data. They share the accountability for cloud cost. 2 ch · 3 min guide
- M01 The FinOps Guide Learn FinOps visually. /finops-guide map
- M02 Usage optimizations Every usage optimization by provider, category and service. Pick a branch to narrow it down, or use search to find one. /usage-optimizations · display map
- P01 Cost Allocation Runbook Cost allocation assigns technology costs to responsible teams across different organizational dimensions. Teams allocate direct and shared costs using hierarchies, tags, and business metadata. /allocation-runbook process
- P02 Anomaly Management Runbook Anomaly detection identifies spending deviations from historical baselines. Anomaly management provides operational triage, automated dispatch, and root cause resolution. /anomaly-management-runbook process
- P03 Data Ingestion Runbook Data ingestion transforms raw billing data into structured cost information. This pipeline establishes cost visibility and financial governance. /data-ingestion-runbook process
- P04 Governance, Policy and Risk Runbook Enforce automated policy guardrails, budget controls, and compliance rules to manage cloud financial and operational risk. /governance-policy-and-risk-runbook process
- P05 Plan to Budget Runbook Connect shift-left architecture estimation, workload-driven forecasting, and dual budget enforcement across engineering, workload owners, and finance. /plan-to-budget-runbook process
- P06 Rate Optimization Runbook How to optimize cloud rates across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts, and Spot. /rate-optimization-runbook process
- P07 Tagging Strategy Runbook Tagging strategy assigns standardized metadata to cloud resources. This metadata allocates costs, links CMDB records, and enforces governance guardrails. /tagging-strategy-runbook process
- P08 Unit Economics Runbook Unit economics connects cloud cost to business output. It shows what one customer, order, or feature costs to serve. /unit-economics-runbook process