FinOps summary and future challenges – how to keep up

Throughout this book, using a practical approach and all three major clouds (Azure, GCP, and AWS), we have covered everything that we believe is needed to build a strong FinOps practice from scratch.

First, we explained what FinOps is and why it is important for organizations, as it seeks to solve some challenges that are inherent to cloud adoption, especially around cloud financial management and making the most out of the resources we have.

We also explained how FinOps can fit and synergize with multiple methodologies that are used widely in organizations across the world, such as Well Architected Framework, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Agile project management.

Inform (Chapters 3, 4, and 5)

After these introductory chapters, we have delved into the first pillar of FinOps, which is the Inform pillar. In this domain, we have gotten to understand why naming conventions and tagging strategies are important for FinOps...