Tools & FinOps¶

Making informed decisions about your cloud infrastructure and costs. We provide in-depth reviews of tools and frameworks, along with financial operations (FinOps) strategies to optimize your cloud spending.

Tool Reviews¶

Cloud Platforms¶

• AWS Cost Optimization Tools
• GCP Cost Management
• Azure Cost Control

Monitoring & Optimization¶

• Datadog vs. New Relic
• Kubernetes Cost Management
• Serverless Cost Optimization

FinOps Framework¶

Core Principles¶

1. Visibility - Understand your cloud spend
2. Accountability - Allocate costs to teams and projects
3. Optimization - Continuously improve efficiency
4. Governance - Implement policies and guardrails

Getting Started with FinOps¶

• FinOps 101: A Beginner's Guide
• Building a FinOps Team
• Cost Allocation Strategies

Cost Optimization Strategies¶

Compute Optimization¶

• Right-sizing instances
• Spot and preemptible instances
• Auto-scaling best practices

Storage Optimization¶

• Data lifecycle policies
• Storage class optimization
• Data archiving strategies

Networking Optimization¶

• Data transfer cost reduction
• CDN optimization
• Private networking strategies

Cost Monitoring & Reporting¶

• Setting up cost dashboards
• Anomaly detection
• Budget alerts and forecasting

Case Studies¶

• Reducing Cloud Costs by 60% at Scale
• Implementing FinOps in a Growing Startup
• Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization

Tools & Resources¶

• OpenCost - Open source cost monitoring for Kubernetes
• CloudHealth - Enterprise cloud management platform
• Kubecost - Kubernetes cost monitoring and management

Contributing¶

Have experience with cloud cost optimization or FinOps? We'd love your contributions! Check out our contribution guidelines to get started.