Cloud Finops: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Value Decision Making

FinOps brings financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud. As enterprises move aggressively to cloud, ownership of technology and financial decision-making has shifted to the edges of the organization away from procurement to engineering, architecture, and product teams. FinOps, having grown from a fringe practice to the de facto discipline managing cloud spend, is now practiced by the majority of global enterprises.

This second edition provides a road map for adopting and maturing the discipline drawn from the experience of hundreds of real-world practitioners. Seven new chapters include forecasting, adopting Finops, partnering with engineering, sustainability, the UI of FinOps, and connectivity to other frameworks. There are updates throughout the book, including 150 new pages of best practices and dozens of new stories.

Drawing on real-world successes and failures of large-scale cloud spenders, the book outlines the process of building a culture of cloud FinOps in your organization. Engineering and finance teams, executives, and FinOps practitioners alike will learn how to build an efficient and effective FinOps machine for data-driven cloud value decision-making.

With this book, you'll learn:

• The DNA of a highly functional cloud FinOps culture
• A road map to build executive support for FinOps adoption
• How to understand and forecast your cloud spending
• How to empower engineering and finance to work together
• Cost allocation strategies to create accountability for cloud and container spend
• Strategies for rate discounts from cloud commitments
• When and how to implement automation of repetitive cost tasks
• How to empower engineering team action on cost efficiency
• Using unit economics to drive data-driven decision-making

FinOps將財務責任引入雲端的可變花費模型。隨著企業積極轉向雲端，技術和財務決策的所有權已從採購轉移到工程、架構和產品團隊。FinOps已從邊緣實踐發展為管理雲端花費的事實上的紀律，現在被全球大多數企業所實踐。本書第二版提供了一個從數百位實踐者的經驗中獲得的採用和成熟該紀律的路線圖。七個新章節包括預測、採用FinOps、與工程合作、可持續性、FinOps的使用者界面以及與其他框架的連接。全書都有更新，包括150頁的最佳實踐和數十個新故事。本書借鑒了大規模雲端花費者的現實成功和失敗，概述了在組織中建立雲端FinOps文化的過程。工程和財務團隊、高管和FinOps從業人員都將學習如何建立一個高效和有效的FinOps機制，以進行數據驅動的雲端價值決策。通過本書，您將學到以下內容：
- 高度功能性雲端FinOps文化的基因
- 建立高層支持FinOps採用的路線圖
- 如何理解和預測您的雲端花費
- 如何使工程和財務團隊合作
- 成本分配策略，以為雲端和容器花費建立責任制
- 從雲端承諾中獲得費率折扣的策略
- 何時以及如何實施重複成本任務的自動化
- 如何使工程團隊在成本效益方面採取行動
- 使用單位經濟學推動數據驅動的決策