Capabilities

FinOps capabilities Learn about the fundamental building blocks of the FinOps Framework that enable you to maximize business value through the cloud.

On this page

• 🔍 Understand cloud usage and cost
• 📏 Quantify business value
• 📊 Optimize cloud usage and cost
• 🏢 Manage the FinOps practice
• ⏩ Next steps
• 🧰 Related tools

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🔍 Understand cloud usage and cost

• Data ingestion
• Allocation
• Reporting and analytics
• Anomaly management

📏 Quantify business value

• Planning and estimating
• Forecasting
• Budgeting
• Benchmarking
• Unit economics

📊 Optimize cloud usage and cost

• Architecting for the cloud
• Workload optimization
• Rate optimization
• Licensing and SaaS
• Cloud sustainability

🏢 Manage the FinOps practice

• FinOps education and enablement
• FinOps practice operations
• Onboarding workloads
• Cloud policy and governance
• Invoicing and chargeback
• FinOps assessment
• FinOps tools and services
• Intersecting frameworks

⏩ Next steps

Once you understand which capabilities are most critical, start your first or plan your next iteration:

• Conduct a FinOps iteration

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🧰 Related tools

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