Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the importance of having to change your mindset when running financial operations in the cloud. You cannot use a traditional, centralized IT procurement approach since cloud operations aren’t owned by a single team. Rather, it is much more important to provide autonomy to your business teams to enable them to maximize cloud benefits. We will discuss how to enable your teams to be agile, autonomous, and to bring business value while controlling and managing their cloud spending throughout the remainder of this book.

You also learned that FinOps is a framework and discipline that crosses many teams within an organization. It is a combination of people, processes, tools, and metrics that empowers an organization using the cloud to manage its cloud resources as true assets that bring measurable value to the business. FinOps is not a one-person job, nor should it be owned and managed entirely by scattered teams. Rather, a centralized...