Cloud FinOps FAQs
Cloud has become an integral component for successful business operations. However, alongside the benefits of cloud computing come the complexities of managing costs effectively. Enter Cloud FinOps, a discipline aimed at optimizing cloud spending while maximizing value. It continues to be one of the top cloud priorities in 2024 and the coming years. As organizations embark on this new journey, numerous questions arise regarding FinOps practices. This article covers a few with responses from our cloud finops experts themselves Karthick Perumal , Product Engineering Head and Mukesh Kumar , our Product Architect who holds profound experience in tackling cloud finops challenges of our clients.
1. What is Cloud FinOps?
Cloud FinOps is a practise which enables organization to maximize the value derived from their cloud resources spending.
2. What does Cloud FinOps do?
It offers multiple benefits to the cloud businesses. In a nutshell, it enables developers, operations, finance, and other business teams in comprehending and managing costs associated with cloud computing.
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3. Why is Cloud FinOps important?
Cloud finops is vital for various reasons. It is crucial in solving some of the key challenges like,
4. How Cloud Service Providers help in Cloud Cost Optimization?
CSPs do give us a lot of options through which we can realize considerable savings.
5. What are the easiest ways to control cloud costs?
While there are many, enterprises miss to leverage some of the simple options available in hand,
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6. Is it possible to save money without compromising the performance?
Yes, a lot of cost savings can be achieved by continuous monitoring and optimizing your cloud usage for orphans and unused resources. Beyond reducing you can even witness improving performance levels.
In CloudCADI, we monitor for Orphan/Unused Disk, Public IP Address, load balancer, SQL servers, NAT gateway, Application Gateway, etc.
7. What are the trivial things that impact largely in cloud costs?
Well, there are many. They might seem small at the early stages of cloud adoption. The team’s focus will be more on the project, deliverables, and deadlines forgetting the fact that every resource they install/download start accumulating the bills either they use it to its fullest or not.
Examples are, leaving unused resources that are not actively contributing to operations, inefficient resource sizing, neglecting to properly tag and organize resources for cost allocation, etc. These can bring impacts like, wasting money on excessive resources or experiencing performance issues due to insufficient resources, difficulties in tracking and attributing costs to specific projects or departments.
8. What are the possible ways to overcome cloud costs?
You can rely on CloudCADI for all these needs. It does a phenomenal job.
9. Finops Consultants or?FinOps Tools?
The choice between FinOps consultants and FinOps tools depends on various factors, including the specific needs and circumstances of the client’s organization.
FinOps consultants bring in-depth knowledge and expertise in FinOps practices to the organisation. They can provide personalized approach by taking a holistic view of the organization needs.
While on the other hand, Cloud Finops tools brings multiple advantages, like automating certain aspects of cloud cost management, make the process less human error prone, continuous monitoring, detailed break downs and reports.
10. Why FinOps is an organization wide practice?
We always insist this to our customers. FinOps is not constrained to the cloud engineering division, it’s ?an organization wide cross functional collaborative practice. It involves all three hierarchies – engineering team, operations team, and finance team. Every stakeholder requires a solid information on the cloud usage, performance, and cost in their terms. So that they become accountable of their choices and can map it to their relevant goals.
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