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Cloud FinOps (financial operations)

Cloud FinOps helps you to manage and optimise cloud spending. For FinOps, we follow the FinOps foundation framework.  

You can read more about the FinOps foundation framework on their website. 

This framework aims to:  

  • get value out of using cloud  

  • give you timely data to make financial and technical decisions  

  • create financial accountability through collaboration between engineering, finance and business teams  

The framework uses ‘domains’. Domains are the 'outcomes' of FinOps practices.

The domains aim to help you:

  • understand usage and cost  

  • quantify business value  

  • optimise usage and cost  

FinOps private beta  

We’re currently running a FinOps private beta. It focuses on the domain about understanding cost and usage. We’ve invited a selection of teams or organisations to join this private beta. 

Teams on the private beta 

If you’re part of the private beta, we’ll give you access to your cloud workload data through a dashboard in Power BI. You’ll then be able to enter and track your budget against the data.  

You’ll also get support from our FinOps team.  

The private beta dashboard is for leadership and operations roles. We’ll continue to work on expanding the service offering for other roles and personas. We'll let you know when more functionality is available.  

You must be able to meet your FinOops responsibilities to be part of the private beta.

How to access to your dashboard  

You'll access your dashboard on PowerBI. There are different dashboards for AWS and Azure customers:

When you open PowerBI in your browser, you'll be given the option to "pick an account to sign in with". You should pick the email address with "cirrus" in it.

This will then ask you to verify your gov.scot email address. To do this you'll need to download the Okta verify app.

You’ll only see the data that you’d usually have access to in your cloud environments. If you want to see more data, you need to change permissions through your Okta groups.

If you're an AWS customer, you can download your data to create a cost and usage report. You can read about how to do this on the AWS docs website.

Training

There are training courses you can do on pathways:

Guidance

There is guidance you can read on the FinOps framework webstie:

Communities

There are communities you can join to discuss FinOps:

 

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