Part 1: The Challenge and the Workload

FinOps is an evolving practice to deliver maximum value from investments in Cloud. Most organizations in their journey of adopting FinOps focus on highly tactical and visible activities. They perform activities post-deployment of the applications to help them understand and then optimize their cloud usage and cost. This approach, while being able to clearly demonstrate benefits, falls short of the potential of FinOps as it requires workloads to be effectively built multiple times. Shifting left with FinOps — you build once, this not only saves money on your cloud bill — but increases innovation within your business by freeing up your resources.

In this series, we will walk you through an example solution and how to effectively implement a shift-left approach to FinOps to demonstrate the techniques to discover and validate cost optimizations throughout a typical cloud software development lifecycle.