FinOps Essentials for Cloud Deployments

Introduction

• Introduction to FinOps
• What you should know

1. FinOps Introduction

• Understanding FinOps and its importance
• Business need for FinOps for cloud computing
• Defining cloud computing value and metrics
• Case study: Cloud budget overage
• Case study: Multicloud cost mayhem
• Introduction to FinOps objectives
• Introduction to FinOps technology
• Introduction to FinOps best practices

2. Establishing FinOps in Your Organization

• Determining your business requirements and business case for FinOps
• Single-cloud cost tracking
• Multicloud and hybrid cloud cost tracking
• Putting your cloud cost data to use
• Setting up cloud cost observability
• Setting up cloud cost governance
• Basic FinOps planning for the enterprise
• FinOps and AI

3. Externalizing FinOps to the Organization

• Cloud spending visibility
• Cloud spending benchmarks
• Communicating the FinOps plan to operators and stakeholders
• Identifying the steps in your FinOps plan
• Assigning roles in your FinOps plan
• FinOps and compliance and agreements
• FinOps collaboration and culture
• Challenge: Approach cloud spending visibility for Henry's Hammocks
• Solution: Review the potential solutions you can leverage

4. Optimizing for FinOps in Your Organization

• Cloud spending observability
• Cloud spending analysis
• Cloud spending forecasting
• Cloud spending optimization processes and metrics
• Cloud spending optimization technology
• Cloud spending optimization for business value
• Cloud spending AI tools
• Cloud spending governance using AI
• Challenge: Approach cloud spending forecasting for Henry's Hammocks
• Solution: Review the potential solutions you can leverage

5. Automating for FinOps

• Identifying what you should automate
• Automation best practice considerations
• FinOps automation technology types and usages
• Leveraging AI for better FinOps automation
• Creating AI automation processes
• Dynmaic automation using AI
• Demo: FinOps automation with AWS Cost Explorer

6. Operating for FinOps Success

• FinOps continuous improvement
• FinOps observability
• Supporting audits
• Supporting compliance
• Defining FinOps operational success
• Finding value with AI FinOps tools
• Creating dynamic processes using AI
• Challenge: Approaching compliance for Henry's Hammocks
• Solution: Review the potential solutions you can leverage

Conclusion

• Next steps