AWS FinOps Simplified

FinOps borrows its model from DevOps, which joins development and IT operations through a mix of cultural values, working methods, and tools. FinOps applies the same idea to the link between engineering and finance, a relationship that companies have to build and keep up if they want to keep growing.

The book shows how organizations with a mature FinOps practice hand cost accountability to the developer teams that generate the spending, while encouraging business, finance, and technology groups to work across their boundaries. Readers are shown that this kind of alignment can speed up delivery, support new ideas, and fuel expansion. The book also explains how to shape the right FinOps team, including a Cloud Center of Excellence, and how to use AWS tools to reduce spending, covering both quick wins and changes that pay off over time.

Written for enterprise and cloud architects, CFOs, CTOs, product and finance managers, and FinOps practitioners, the book presents tools, strategies, and frameworks for cutting cloud costs so a business can gain lasting financial value and use its cloud resources efficiently. By the final chapter, readers should be prepared to launch a working FinOps practice that gets the most from AWS for their workloads.