What is FinOps?
The practice of bringing financial accountability to cloud spending.
FinOps (Financial Operations) is the practice of bringing financial accountability and visibility to variable cloud spending. It involves collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams to optimize cloud costs without sacrificing performance. Core practices: tagging all resources, right-sizing instances, using reserved/spot capacity, eliminating waste (idle resources, oversized instances), and chargeback/showback to teams. In Kubernetes, FinOps tools like Kubecost show per-namespace/pod cost breakdowns.
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