Summary

With the process of how to prepare custom dashboards and reports, we conclude this chapter.

During this chapter, we covered how to interpret and understand cloud invoices and billing information in general from cloud providers. We also described the differences between dashboards and reports, introduced some financial basics that can help throughout our FinOps practices, and understood how to track savings and waste and make use of the unit economics concept. In addition to this, we reviewed some built-in assets that we can use as a starting point for FinOps analysis, as well as some guidelines and cloud services we can use to create our own dashboards and reports.

With all this information, we hope that you will be able to tackle future challenges in the Inform pillar far more easily.

In the next chapter, we will begin to explore the Optimize pillar, in which we will analyze cost optimization initiatives from a much more technical and architectural perspective to...