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Take Your FinOps to New Heights

Don't let Your FinOps become a Fin-Flop
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Enhance FinOps to Maximize the Value of Cloud

Forrester points out a key trend: 94% of businesses end up over-allocating resources to ensure application performance, which hurts their ROI. FinOps gives you the clarity you need to better understand your multi-cloud usage, fostering financial accountability by encouraging collaboration across teams. By following FinOps principles, you can make smart adjustments to avoid over-provisioning and keep costs in check.

That said, there are many ways to approach it—some more effective than others. This page brings together best practices to help you turn your FinOps efforts into a real success.

Key Statistics

675 $ billion is spent by companies on the public cloud

200 $ billion go to waste annually

54 % of cloud waste is due to poor visibility

10 Tips to get Cloud Costs Under Control

Revolutionize your cloud spend with proven techniques:

  • Leverage hybrid license rights for optimal utilization
  • Establish costs alerts as guardians of fiscal prudence
  • Select precise instance types for budget efficiency
  • Benefit from reversed instances or savings plans
  • Automate the orchestration of cloud resources

FinOps Transparency

Cloud services that are not used to their full potential or ignored entirely are part of cloud waste. It's like hosting a digital landfill - the resources are sitting there, taking up space, and the costs for these idle or underutilized resources can be high.

FinOps is a business practice which helps to tackle could waste in multiple ways such as:

  • Usage Management and Control
  • Resource Rightsizing
  • Cost Allocation and Tagging
  • Cloud Unit Economics
  • Forecasting and Reporting

Unleash Full Cloud-Saving Potential with Reserved Instances

This comprehensive guide shows how you can leverage powerful cost optimization strategies without compromising IT performance.

Included in this guide are:

  • The benefits of Reserved Instances
  • What you must prepare before RI-purchasing
  • Tips how to manage and optimize RIs
  • How to renew and expand Reserved Instances
  • Why reporting and cost management are essential for optimizing RI-usage and cost savings
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"The FinOps idea is that a business makes the "best" investment decisions, not just the lowest cost decisions."

Robbie Plourde Global Sales Enablement Lead | USU Solution Inc.