Finance Management & FinOps

Cloud Financial Management

• 📚 Guidance for Cloud Financial Management on AWS
• 🛠️ Instance Scheduler on AWS
• 🛠️ Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces
• 🛠️ Workload Discovery on AWS

Resource Inventory Management

🌟 An end-to-end full-stack FinOps project, including FinOps, data storytelling, and Analytics Dashboard. ✨

Automate and Extend the Multi-Cloud to Accelerate Your FinOps Journey

The FinOps Toolkit is a collection of learning resources, customizable tools, starter kits, scripts, and advanced solutions to help you adopt and implement FinOps capabilities that automate and extend the Microsoft Cloud. This includes:

• The roadmap and tools for the FinOps toolkit.
• Learning resources and best practices about how to implement FinOps.
• Starter kits that help you get up and running.
• Automation scripts to streamline cost configuration and management at scale.
• Advanced solutions to facilitate building custom capabilities.

🗺️ Roadmap

We track the short-term roadmap for FinOps toolkit as milestones in GitHub. Each release includes the high-level goals, tasks, and a link to the release discussion.

🧰 Available Tools

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• 🏦 FinOps hubs – Open, extensible, and scalable cost reporting.
• 📊 Power BI reports – Accelerate your reporting with Power BI starter kits.
• 📒 FinOps workbooks – Customizable home for engineers to maximize cloud ROI through FinOps.
  • 📒 Optimization workbook – Central hub for cost optimization.
  • 📒 Governance workbook – Central hub for governance.
• 🔍 Azure Optimization Engine – Extensible solution for custom optimization recommendations.
• 🖥️ PowerShell module – Automate and manage FinOps solutions and capabilities.
• 🦾 Bicep Registry modules – Official repository for Bicep modules.
• 🌐 Open data – Data available for anyone to access, use, and share without restriction.
  • 📏 Pricing units – Microsoft pricing units, distinct units, and scaling factors.
  • 🗺️ Regions – Microsoft Commerce locations and Azure regions (IDs and names).
  • 📚 Resource types – Microsoft Azure resource type display names, icons, and more.
  • 🎛️ Services – Microsoft consumed services, resource types, and FOCUS service categories.
  • ⬇️ Sample exports – Sample files from Cost Management exports.

🍎 Learning Resources

• FinOps Foundation YouTube channel – All topics from the FinOps community.
• FinOps certification and training – Advance your knowledge and get certified.

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New to FinOps? Start with a quick intro and get to know the principles:

• What is FinOps? – Quick introduction to FinOps.
• FinOps on Azure e-book – Executive walkthrough of the FinOps principles.
• Get started with FinOps – Self-paced FinOps introduction.

Start implementing FinOps capabilities or learn how to mature your FinOps practice:

• Adopt FinOps on Azure – Learn FinOps capabilities at your own pace.
• Conduct a FinOps iteration – Plan your first or next iteration.
• FinOps review assessment – Review and refine your process.
• FinOps Framework – Implement FinOps in the Microsoft Cloud.

Learn the products you need to be successful:

• FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification – Cloud agnostic format for cost and usage data.
• Interactive product guides – Hands on experience with Microsoft products.
• Intro for cloud migration – Great context when migrating from on-premises.

Stay up to date on the latest news:

• FinOps blog – Latest FinOps news from Microsoft.

FinOps e-book Review assessment Interactive guides