Manage, Measure, and Control Cloud Expenses Using FinOps

Balance Cloud Costs and Business Goals with FinOps Service Offerings

FinOps brings financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud, enabling distributed teams to make business trade-offs among speed, cost, and quality. In practice, it means establishing performance indicators for an organization’s cloud costs based on service, business unit, environment, etc., and diagnosing the organization’s consumption based on these indicators.

Why FinOps?

Top 7 FinOps Adoption Related Challenges

Here are the top 7 FinOps adoption related challenges that many encounter.

Getting Engineers to act on cost optimization

Full allocation of cloud spending

Aligning finance/procurement teams with tech/eng teams

Reducing waste or unused resources

Enabling automation

Organizational adoption of FinOps

Accurate forecasting of cloud spend

FinOps - Key Drivers

Reduce wasted cloud spend

32% of total cloud spend is wasted spend.

Strong demand from end customers to optimize cloud spend

59% of organizations have cost savings - cloud spend optimization - as their top cloud initiative.

Cost Management across multiple clouds

89% organizations are using multiple clouds resulting in increased demand for cost optimization Initiatives.

Operating Model changes arising from increased cloud spend

IT and Finance teams need to operate more efficiently together to support the agility of the business and pro-actively monitor and react to cloud spends.

Key Benefits

Gain visibility to control costs

Drive accountability for cloud spend

Simplify cloud budget management

Identify optimization opportunities
& automate tasks

Accelerate fulfillment requests

Enable data driven decision making

FinOps - KPIs/Metrics

Cloud Visibility KPIs

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Rightsizing savings percentage
Effective cost per resource
Production incidents by application/team Reverted cloud deployments
Mean time to repair or mean time between failures
Number of security lapses in a month
Number of assets that don’t meet configuration standards

Cloud Optimization KPIs

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Rightsizing savings percentage
Effective cost per resource
Production incidents by application/team
Reverted cloud deployments
Mean time to repair or mean time between failures
Number of security lapses in a month
Number of assets that don’t meet configuration standards

Cloud Governance & Automation KPIs

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Cost optimized over time
Cost optimized per policy over time
Time saved as a result of policies
Number of reservations automated
Time to remediate security violations
Resource based commitment discount target coverage
Service availability
Time to deployment

Cigniti’s Assurance to Customers

FinOps is a practice that brings financial intelligence and realization of an organization’s cloud spending.
Here are some of the assured benefits for the customer.

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