Data-Driven FinOps

So far, you’ve learned about the various AWS tools and services you can use to monitor, plan, and optimize your AWS resources. You can use these tools to a certain extent, but tools alone cannot provide your organization with sustainable FinOps practices. You also need to involve the right people and the right processes to realize the long-term benefits of FinOps.

In these final chapters, you’ll learn how to apply FinOps practices at scale across your organization while going beyond the core IT functionalities such as compute, networking, and storage. We will start by looking at how you can apply these AWS tools and services centrally. In the previous chapters, we discussed the importance of having a central team, or a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). A CCoE is just an example of a centralized team that can drive FinOps best practices across your organization. CCoE certainly does not have to be the name you choose for your organization, but naming...