FinOps
Cloud FinOps – Part 5: Usage Report
Wrapping up this series, following our previous Cloud FinOps - Part 4: Kubernetes Cost Report, this final piece looks at how to increase visibility of underutilized workloads.
Cloud FinOps - Part 4: Kubernetes Cost Report
This blog post is a continuation of Cloud FinOps - Part 3: Cloud Cost Report
[https://medium.com/empathyco/cloud-finops-part-3-cloud-cost-report-865a81c03c1c]
, in which we will explore how to gain cost visibility on Kubernetes Workloads.
Motivation
Nowadays, a lot of companies run their workloads on Kubernetes because there are
many benefits to
Cloud FinOps – Part 3: Cloud Cost Report
Following our previous posts on Cloud FinOps Principles
[https://medium.com/empathyco/cloud-finops-part-1-principles-79b88aeeab4f] and
Tag Allocation
[https://medium.com/empathyco/tag-allocation-strategy-part-2-3c7f8595186a]
Strategy, it is time to unveil the third piece in the series. In this post, we
will focus how to develop a solution for visualizing cloud costs.
Introduction
The
Cloud FinOps - Part 2: Tag Allocation Strategy
In the first post
[https://engineering.empathy.co/cloud-finops-part-1-principles/] of this
four-part series, we explored the Cloud FinOps principles and the key milestones
in the journey to start walking in FinOps:
* Tag Allocation Strategy
* Cost Report
* Usage Report
In this post, we’ll dig deeper into a crucial step in
Cloud FinOps, Part 1: Principles
FinOps, short for Cloud Financial Operations, helps teams optimise cloud costs
to get the most value for their projects. Teams adopt best practices and a
collaborative culture to manage cloud operations with greater financial
accountability: balancing cost, speed and quality.
When your teams have problems managing their cloud costs, following