About Simply FinOps
When I first started working with FinOps almost eight years ago, resources for practitioners were very scarce. Apart from vendor-specific articles related to volume or commitment discounts, you were pretty much on your own. And good luck finding any vendor-agnostic guides! You’d stumble across the occasional page or blog post that talked about cloud cost savings strategies, but that was about it.
Fast forward to the present day, and FinOps is absolutely exploding in size and scope. Long gone are the days of that one employee tracking cloud costs and savings with a spreadsheet. Today, there are an estimated ten to twelve thousand FinOps Practitioners worldwide.1 We even have the benefit of our own professional society, the FinOps Foundation. Quite a far cry from where I started almost a decade ago!
Over time, I began to realize that while there are fantastic resources for developing and implementing FinOps strategies and cultures within organizations, it was still challenging at times to find practical resources. What are good strategies for Savings Plan coverage? How do reservation purchases differ among AWS, Azure and GCP? What are key attributes of a healthy tagging strategy? Questions like these seemed challenging to find ready answers for.
While there are a plethora of tools and resources available to FinOps practitioners today, they are oftentimes scattered and can be challenging to track down. Once you’ve identified the tools you need, it’s just a matter of coupling them with FinOps best practices to optimize your organization’s cloud spend. But if you’re just getting started, how do you find those tools? Which ones are suited to the cloud provider(s) you’re using? What if you’re an established practitioner, but you’re suddenly faced with learning the ins and outs of a cloud provider you’ve never worked with?
These are the issues that Simply FinOps aims to address. Our goal is to provide practitioners with easy access to the tools they need to do their work. We want to make it simple for you to find the practical information you need to make FinOps successful at your organization.
On this site you’ll find a number of guides, articles, and directories that will help you find the tools you need. We’re frequently publishing new resources, so keep checking back in for updated content. As a fellow FinOps practitioner, I realize the complexities and challenges you face when implementing cost optimizations, presenting spend to management, and all the other details in between. My hope is that Simply FinOps helps ease that burden!
Jarrett Cross
References
- FinOps Foundation. FinOps Data & Research Hub. Retrieved from https://data.finops.org/