Are you new to Cloud Financial Management or FinOps and have been wondering if it is something for your organization? FinOps is a culture, created to help organizations manage their cloud costs, where everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage supported by best practices, where teams like Cloud Center of Excellence and Finance work together to enable faster delivery, while at the same time gaining more financial and operational control. If your anwers is yes, then this course can help you to understand what FinOps is all about. In this course we will guide you to get a better understanding on the monetary and budgetary difficulties of cloud, how to manage your cloud spend. You will learn how to build a FinOps team. We’ll explain what the capabilities within the FinOps architecture are and how they can be used, why and how it is important to understand your Cloud Bill and how to implement a FinOps Life Cycle in your organization and finally what success should look like giving you guidance and tips how you could let FinOps start working for your organization to maximize the value of cloud!

Insights in this training are derived from FinOps projects instructors have participated in personally, as well as from the FinOps Framework developed by FinOps Foundation. FinOps Foundation is a non-profit organization advancing the discipline of FinOps and cloud financial management through best practices, education and standards. The FinOps Foundation includes 2,700+ individual members, representing more than 1200 companies.