Cloud Economics (aka FinOps) on SAP BTP

Approaching Business Critical Applications & Solutions on Cloud means that cloud maturity is there. It means, usually, that a PoC, a Pilot and so on have been validated and that the Business-Case is right. Great! Let's go ahead.

Moving from a pilot to something more complex it require a strong Governance, solid Architecture, a new Target Operating Model, etc.

You know, working on Cloud Platform it is a must (or it should be) to follow DevSecOps toolchains and agile methodology, applying IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) in order to obtain "Continuous-everything" for all the technical layers, from infra to apps, end-2-end.

But, what about costs control? When we are still on the pilot stage, typically cloud consumptions are covered by Cloud Providers (credits, founding, sandbox, ...) but approaching Business Critical Apps solutions means we have a more complex Bill-of-Materials (BoM) and related contracts with Cloud Providers (one or more), approaching the different commercial offers: pay-as-you-go, reserved, etc.. Complex BoM, Group Accounts, SubAccounts and extended Cloud Landing Zones require daily based costs control to be able to monitor, to alerts, to adjust, to act, to scale-up & down, etc., respecting budgets. All activities where a proper FinOps solution can provide right contents and answers.

This is something already in place on Hyperscalers, something in progress with SAP BTP.

But no issue: we have the right solution also on SAP BTP, standalone or embedded, into a more integrated FinOps solution covering Hyperscalers & BTP in a one place.

Enjoy ;)